Last nite was my first class! I LOOOOOOVED IT! I have thoroughly enjoyed all of my classes at western so far..except the internet classes because they are totally boring. My teacher is amazing. He's hilarious, not boring (which is good because he will be lecturing and its a 3 hour class!) I'm pretty sure I'm the oldest one in the whole class..which gives me another advantage and I feel like it should be yet another easy A! I've really worked my butt off for these grades! Mr Hubbard how do I describe him? Let's just say Franklin County born and raised...graduated from FCHS and now teaches there and coaches basketball and baseball..so you can only imagine. Got his BA from VA tech and his Masters from Radford. He has 3 kids..one of whom is in the air force touring in Afghanistan right now! He has even offered us some VERY easy extra credit! one point on our final grade if we prove that we are registered to vote...CHECK! one point on our final grade if we donate blood...I'll do that! And 1 point on our final grade and 5 points on each test if we attend ANY Franklin Co Girls basketball game! LOL! Suzanne and I have already decided to hit up the Feb 4th game! why not? it can only help right? We have 5 tests and one final and one book report! He gave us a list of 30 books ranging from the colonization/puritan period to 1865...civil war era! I'm excited...you know I love ANYTHING involving the revolutionary war so I'm all about some of that reading! All in all sounds like a pretty easy and fun class!
He didn't lecture last night and we didnt actually start our notes. He did however make a chart on the board....one that really hit home..knowing im in that same situation. he wrote the unemployment rates of a high school drop out, high school graduate, associate degree in college, ba degree, masters degree, and PHD...he also included the hourly rate/salary per year of each of these. Common sense tells you...the more education you have..the more money youll make. Anyone can come into your house and take your flat screen TV, your money, your car...but no one can take away your education. And..with that knowledge you can always earn all of those things back. Ive known for a long time that SCHOOL IS THE PATH I NEED TO TAKE RIGHT NOW. I'm tired of working this dumb job everyday and making just enough to pay the bills and maybe a little extra! I'm actually going to do something with my life and im so thankful that I have the oppurtunity to do that!! I'm reminded of a song... (like I always say, for every situation in life there's either a song, or an episode of FRIENDS)
"I ain't settlin for just gettin by, had enough so-so for the rest of my life, tired of shootin too low so raise the bar high cause enough ain't enough this time. I ain't settlin for anything less than everything!" And that's what I deserve. Lee has worked so hard. He took 5 years to get his BA in engineering from NC State and works his ass off and helps support me! I want to do the same for him and be able to handle myself if anything ever happend to him! I thank God for this wonderful oppurtunity that I've been given!!
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