Going to college.....Maybe

[AThrash37DSnyder]

"Dont give up, dont ever give up"-The late, great Jimmy V.

[lsu131]

if your jobless and got a wife and two kids that degree would defiantely help finding a job man,i say go for it and good luck in the future

[2jeter13arod]

Ok i am 27 years old with no job, married with 2 kids and thinking about going to college for the first time in my life. lol

Heres how it all came to be.

My mother in law works at a local college(small college) she happens to work in the building the gym is located at. Somehow she was in a conversation wit hthe basketball coach, he was saying how the team doesnt have much height. So my my moter li law says i have a 6 foot 10 inch son in law. HEs like give me his number i will call him next week.

A couple days later my father in law came up to me and says the college is going to call you, me not knowing anything about it was like HUH? lol HE said she didnt tel lyou i said tell me what. So they tell me all about it.

I laughed it off then Monday afternoon the phone rings, sure enough its the basketball coach wanting me to come to school so i can play basketball for him lol.

I told him i would look over the courses they offer there and see if anything interests me. http://www.umm.maine.edu/content/page.php?cat=2 here are the programs they offer. If i go i am debating on Recreation and Tourism Management with an ephasis on Sports and Fitness Management http://www.umm.maine.edu/content/pag...content_id=250

I am supposed to meet the coach next week and he is going to put me through a short skill workout, and talk with me. Ive been out of school for 8 years now and havent shot a basketball in a few years. I love playing basketball. Why couldn't this happen years ago? lol

HE had me fill out an application for Financial Aid, told me to fill out the online college application and have my high school send my transcripts to the addmissions office, i told him theres no way i can afford to pay for it as its like $12,000 per year. He said they may be able to throw in some athletic money to cover any differences in financial aid and the total cost.

I never took SAT's in high school so the coach said i wouldnt be able to play in games my first year, but could still practice with the team.

There alot of things going through my mind, the basketball side would be fun, just nervous about the actually school work portion of it lol. What if i go and fail?

What would you do if you were in my shoes< Opinions, and comments appreciated

Thanks

Cool but what about getting a Job and the 2 Kids?


Good luck. Go to Home Depot or Lowes or ??? its Spring and they are looking for help. Where do you live? Jobs are everywhere if you want them. I can't imagine having 2 kids and not having a job.

Again Good Luck.

OH and this is just my opinion since your posting this on a public forum....sell your cards and stop collecting them until you get a job.

[charliecf4life]

go to school, you're never to old to go back. forget about the courses, nothign comes easy but as long as you attend the class and study then you'll be fine. the one issue is the support, if you have your wife's mentally, physically and financially 100% support then u should go.

[trevorp121]

Well i have been looking over requoirements, the school has a UNIVERSITY CORE REQUIREMENTS, its a bunch of courses you have to take no matter what your academic program is. Courses include Public Speaking(Yeah Right) A choice of 2 between music, art, writing and a couple other choices with one you have to choose performing arts

Then theres world history 1 and 2 physics and a load more that make up the UNIVERSITY CORE REQUIREMENTS.

No wonder i didnt go to college when i got out of high school. I have hard time speaking to 1 or 2 people let alone stand up in front of an entire class and talk.

Call me an idiot but i think the classes you HAVE to take should be about things your academic program is about.


So looks like college is out for me

I hear ya on that public speaking, I am exactly the same way.

I am 21 and I went to college for the first time(in january) and when I had to stand up in front of my Sociology class for a presentation and I almost puked.

I would say to have an opportunity to play ball and get an education for next to nothing I would go for it.
Anyways I hope you do whatever is best for you.

[2jeter13arod]

I hear ya on that public speaking, I am exactly the same way.

I am 21 and I went to college for the first time(in january) and when I had to stand up in front of my Sociology class for a presentation and I almost puked.

I would say to have an opportunity to play ball and get an education for next to nothing I would go for it.
Anyways I hope you do whatever is best for you.

Are you married with 2 children? If so that has to be your first priority...even if that means taking 4 part time jobs to support them IMHO.

[TechMan]

No lowes or walmarts or anything like that they all within 1-2 hour drive. I live in the states poorest county where they are no jobs, i am really not to sure if i had a degree i could get a job here.

Also i dont buy cards, or really have a collection either lol

[AquaholicFishing]

TechMan, I would say do it. I just turned 25 and sorta attended college after high school but was more interested in making money and working full time. I started back to school in Oct. 2007 after working and doing things that I enjoyed but finally took a step back and looked hard at if I really wanted to be doing this when I was 40, 50 and even 60 yr. old. I am lucky enough that I'm not married, no kids and was really lucky that I could move back in with my parents. I go to school full time and work part time, I'll have my first certificate in computer aided drafting and design at the end of the fall '08 semester. My situation is a little different than yours but I can honestly say that I am glad that I am back in school to better myself for the rest of my life and wish I had did it right after high school. And the public speaking course is a joke BUT it is neccesary for almost all degrees. I am the most shy, quiet person when it comes to speaking even to small groups of people let alone standing in front of a large class and giving a presentation. But I got an A in the class and though the nerves got to me somewhat I was quite suprised with myself. The key to the class is to prep yourself for your speeches and concentrate on your subject and not worry about the audience. The best thing I found to do was to be 1 of the first 2-3 people to go, that way pretty much everyone else will be worrying about their speeches and not paying 1 bit of attention to you at all.

[rodent14]

I would do it. I don't think gen eds should be your reason for not going. If you really can't afford to go and can't spare the time that's one thing, but don't worry about gen ed difficulty. most of them are really just transition sort of classes to help you adjust to college and won't be super difficult anyways. also they're mostly intros to those sort of fields intended to help you experience a range of things and sometimes they can help you discover that your interests lie in places other than what you were planning on doing. I'm going into my senior year of college and I also help discuss college life and things like that with some of the prospective honors students and their families at my school, and I can honestly say that gen eds aren't that terrible. Yeah you may have to study a few things you're not especially interested in but as soon as you finish them you'll pretty much be taking solely the classes in your field of study

[WilyWestbrook0]

TechMan - Most core courses are easy as pie, including public speaking. I am a very introverted person and never thought speech classes would be easy myself, but I got an 'A' in mine like Aquaholic in spite of my initial nervousness, monotone voice, and swaying tendencies (public speaking requires you to stand still, which I didn't like, but I wasn't deducted too many points for "swaying"). Additionally, core courses are mostly in your Freshman and Sophomore years, so by the time you reach Junior status, most of your classes will be concentrated in your major.

The thing with college is to pick a good major if job prospects are your major goal. Unfortunately, I am only really good at liberal arts subjects and not impersonal technical ones, so I was stuck with an English degree, which isn't much even though I spent time in graduate school and maintained a 3.75+ GPA. It's better than a high school degree, but the job prospects aren't as good as many technical A.A. degrees.