Reaching Lifelong Goals

We are already 5 days into a new year and I have been neglecting my blog for far too long.   Got all wrapped up in Christmas break from school and Reaching Lifelong Goals fell from grace.  Winter term is beginning and new goals are being set for school work and personal life.   I have many topics just waiting to have a blog entry added.   Some are a little stale, they needed to be attached to last terms accomplishments, but I’ll catch up here in the next few days.   I trust all of you Non Trads are set up for the new term in college.  I have found some great resources for textbook savings online, I will be putting together a full report on them this week.   There also have been some great internet finds in the Nontraditional Student blog world.   New blogs to introduce to you will also be a posting this week.   I need to organize my blog format and links, a long overdue task.   Life sure has a tendency to get in the way sometimes…oh well!    This new winter term will be challenging, as I am doubling up on my science requirements for my baccalaureate core by taking both Geology and Botany.   Being a History major, my main focus has been on writing skills and history classes, so this will be a welcome diversion for a term.   It also helps that my BI-103 Plant Biology class is taught by my Father In Law, Bob Ross.   He will cut me no slack, but he is one of the most fascinating teachers I have come into contact with since returning to school.   The life of a Nontraditional Student is always full of challenges.   One challenge that presented itself last term was MTH 065.   I chagrined to say, I am taking this class a second time.   Teaching old dogs new tricks type of thing…   There is a blog posting in my mind about how math is kicking my Non Trad butt, stay tuned.     As a special treat, I would like to leave you one of my photographs taken on the Oregon Pacific coast over the Christmas weekend.   My wife Patty’s birthday is the day after Christmas so we treated ourselves to a weekend at one of the most beautiful spots on the Oregon Coast in Yachats, Or.   Waves and wind, but no rain made for some spectacular shots of the power of the Pacific.