College in my 30’s

Where do I begin?  Well, I made it through week 1!  Woo hoo!  When I completed my Associate’s degree 12 years ago, I would’ve NEVER thought it’d be this excruciating to finish my education.  I am cutting myself some slack to get back into the swing of things and establish a routine and organize my all my assignments from my 4 classes.  What was I thinking to return with 12 credits?  I don’t know, but here I am and I’m going to finish what I started.  However, I really do love learning and have taken a class here or there in my spare time between raising 4 children (21, 15, 5 & 4), maintaining my part-time career as a Group Fitness Instructor and moving from state to state (my husband’s many business ventures).  It’s a miracle I have energy left after the day is past, but I can’t guarantee that I’ll be nice!
What do I expect to learn in this class?  How to overcome my fear of writing academic papers.  It’s paralyzing, this fear.

What do you expect to be successful at in your writing?  I expect that as someone reads my papers they’ll think, “Well, here’s a person who articulates herself well and her writing is incredible - uplifting and amusing!  I’ve wanted to write a book about some of my life’s experiences, but I don’t even know where to start.

What do you expect you will want to work on regarding your writing?    I need to learn the MLA format and whatever format or styles I will be expected to complete at a college level.  I feel like I have a plethora of ideas/words when I write, it’s just a matter of putting it all together in an intellecutual fashion that makes sense to the readers.

What do you expect from me as your instructor?  LOTS OF PATIENCE.  I have found that your communication styles  - visual, verbal (turtorials) and writings have helped me learn so much already.  As an instructor, I find you very friendly, organized, available and very prepared to teach what you really enjoy doing - and that’s writing.  Thank you for your preparations, thus far.

Now off to catch up on some other assignments - and to feed my girls some breakfast!
Myra