History, history, history.   It seems that I have tended to point all of my latest assigned papers toward my love of all things historical.   Being a Non Traditional Student majoring in History, it just seems natural to me.   I will be spending the better part of this weekend writing a paper for my ENG 201 Shakespeare – early works class.   I posted about this a while back in Groundlings and Penny Stinkards discussing an off hand comment made by my Professor about some bones they found in the Tower of London.   Little did I know at the time, but that history tidbit he gave me sent me on a wonderful Historical research journey.   This has been happening to me a lot lately, I’ve been going off on these research voyages related to all of my classes except for Math (wonder why that is???).    Learning about all things historical has been a part of my make up since I was a child.   Now that I’m a Non Traditional Student, this little “quirk” in my make up has taken on a whole new meaning to me.   While researching this paper on Richard III and the skeletons of the “two princes” I surfed into a wonderful website and a new “history friend” on the internet: Tudor Stuff,  Tudor History From the Heart of England.    This blog is written by  Andrew Walsh and Victoria Taylor.   I found great information there,  not directly related to my subject of this paper, but a window into the period of time I am focusing on.   As usual, I was playing around with their links FROM this blog and found a Facebook Page for history geeks like myself about Tudor times in England.   And guess what I found on this Facebook Group, a post about my exact topic of this paper, Richard III and the Two Princes in the Tower.    I have been off on these little history voyages more and more since I have committed to my History Major.    Another area of research I have undertaken with this paper has been modern Forensic Archeology and what we could learn today if the Princes’ remains could be studied.    It opened up a whole new area for me to learn about.    No, I don’t plan to change my Major in mid stream, I have “lifelong goals to reach”.    I guess the main point of this post is, no matter what your personal goals are as a Non Traditional Student, it is important to remain focused on the “prize” down the road.   But, if your journey down that road has  a Tudor Rose growing by it’s side give yourself permission to stop and give it a sniff or two.

Posted: 10|17|09 at 2:02 pm. Filed under: History nuggets, research papers.
Tags: History Major, Lifelong Goals, Non traditional student, redfokker, Shakespeare, Tudor history
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