I did it....

Well, I finally did it. I went this morning and turned in my application for spring semester at our local community college. Unfortunately, I went late enough that I missed early registration and will have to go back after their Christmas break to speak to my advisor (weird - I have an advisor!).

I was relieved to find that my college credits will transfer (what little I have). I was concerned because it has been let's see - 12 years since my last class and I did not pass a few of my classes while in college....the admissions counselor I spoke with said I actually did better than I thought I had after looking at my transcript. I do have several classes that I will get credit for, and I won't have to take remedial math! It's nice to know that those 3 semesters at State were not completely wasted, as I thought they were...

Now after registration and financial aid applications, the hard part comes - I will start part time, taking my first math class to see how this is all going to work. I plan to take it first so I can really devote as much time as I will need to it - before I have classes to juggle around...math is really not a strength of mine!

It's exciting but a little scary to start over at 30 - not what I expected when I was 18 and going to college for the first time. This is going to take some adjustment of schedules for our family, but I think we can do it.