My first steps into this new venture

 Beginning in the end of July I found out about BYU Idaho’s 2024 Summer Session and decided I was going to accelerate my university goals and attempt 6 units before the Fall Semester when I officially begin as a full-time student for the first time in my life.  Why am I doing this when I’m already forty-seven years old?  Why didn’t I do this sooner?

Well to be honest, I’ve always been a “student” but rarely have I put that study towards college credits.  I have taken various real estate and mortgage courses from private trade schools and those lessons were great, but while those courses were federally or state recognized for licensing purposes, they just don’t carry the added weight college courses using the same lessons would carry.  I concluded already when talking to my daughter about her academic career, the need to finish college.  Shortly after, while volunteering at my daughter’s school a student asked me if I was a teacher and I responded no.  She replied I should be because I was nice.  This made me think, I had a small business already, but it wasn’t satisfying.  Explaining to clients that I went to a trade school just didn’t have the spark that my friends had in saying they went to BYU or BYU Idaho as those are known to excel in their business academics.  Plus, there are teaching opportunities if I get my degree that I would enjoy doing part time.  That is why I am here now, the next step in my entrepreneurial step is to finish my degree at BYU Idaho.

 This opportunity opens new challenges such as having to work with different instructors and getting to know their teaching styles.  Also, doing this exclusively online has its challenges in that there is a worry deep down about not having the proper social skills that I believe a live classroom setting would provide.  The reality is that we live in a world different from the one I grew up in where we went to a physical classroom.  I look forward to overcoming those challenges and seeing my academic and professional career blossom as a rose.

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