Posted by Dinah on June 12, 2005, at 22:56:23 [reposted on June 15, 2005, at 21:50:14 | original URL]
In reply to Re: no no no no no no no no » Dinah, posted by Bobby on June 12, 2005, at 16:56:30
I am so internally conflicted about this. I guess that's apparent from my posts. :) I swing sooo widely in how I view it.
What's astonishing me is how positively my husband is viewing it. He's worried that it'll take time away from the family of course, but overall he's being really supportive in a way most unlike him.
Falls, you brought up some really good points that I want to give some thought to before replying.
Especially about commute time and parking and walking. I'd be going to a much bigger university than I've ever been to before. One of those huge impersonal places. And it's a fair commute, timewise. And not in the same direction as anyplace else I go. I think I really am scared by the idea of such a big place, and professors that aren't much involved with the students.
At both universities I attended, there were really low student/faculty ratios even in 101 classes. Chemistry was the only class that was large enough to be in anything bigger than a normal high school sized classroom, and that wasn't a good experience (50% right was an A, with the curve). I used to go up with a revolving group of students after every trigonometry class to the professor's office where he'd give the class again, but interactively, because I really had trouble grasping trig.
I don't know. I'm feeling confident and competent again at the moment, but as bedtime nears the scary university monsters will come out from under the bed and scare me witless.
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