Reaching Full Potential In College

If you have been following my blog you may have noticed a sudden writing gap.  The reason for this huge writing gap has to do with the enormous academic challenge I met in my FINAL semester at Granite State College.

My meetings with my Capstone Mentor, Dr. Quinn, at the Rochester NH college campus, were a prelude to many long hours of writing three different drafts that would eventually metamorph into my personal teaching philosophy.  And that was the FUN part of the semester!

Yes FUN! If you love reading and writing as much as I do, are passionate about your future goals, and you are collaborating with a fair and interested mentor--as I was-- then learning is definitely FUN. And ... 30 pages of writing leaves you breathless and refreshed!

The Granite State College final writing project, lovingly referred to as the Capstone or the final course toward my Language Arts Degree most definitely seemed a daunting task--at first. But, with Dr. Quinn's expert knowledge of the writing process (and my personal writing style) we met the task head on!

Once I had made my decision to meet this awesome challenge, the only thing left to do was to see it through.  No! I did not give up! I did not invent excuses to procrastinate. In fact, I was so interested in my assignment and how it was constantly evolving that it never once occurred to me that I couldn't do it.

I have not yet met an adult learner pursuing adult education and training who has thrown in the towel. There is something special about us, as adult learners, because we possess a tenacious determination younger learners rarely do.  It is such a perfect day for the adult learner who has pressed on through the nervous discomfort and unknown territory of her academics until she has staked her claim on that final, excellent grade.  I can honestly say that NOTHING I have ever achieved in my lifetime feels quite as miraculously mine.