For the past eight months, I’ve had the opportunity to be a nontraditional student columnist for FastWeb, the Internet’s leading scholarship search service. Since August of 2006, I have published eighteen online resource articles with FastWeb detailing the challenges of juggling college and family life. My articles have received additional coverage on the following websites: MonsterLearning.com, MSN Encarta, and MSN Money. Here are the links to the individual articles:
A Dream Deferred? Aspirations and the Realities of Financing College
Community Colleges: A Nurturing Environment for the Nontraditional Student
Hope Revived: Finding a Way Back to the Classroom
Let Them Eat Cake: A Recipe for Making Friends in the Classroom
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on Going Back to School
Mother Load: Surviving the Holidays and the End of the Semester Crunch
Older and Wiser: A Scholastic Advantage
Permission to Shine: Liberating Ourselves While Empowering Others
Summertime…and the Learning is Easy
The People You Meet: Community and the Community College
This is Only a Test: Keeping College Exams in Perspective
Three Things I’ve Learned About College Professors
Write On! Pursuing My College and Career Goals Simultaneously
I’d love to hear your feedback on any of these articles, especially if you’re a mom returning to school like me!
Here are three more articles I wrote at the beginning of this year (2008):
Accelerated Hybrid Classes: A Saner Option
Phi Theta Kappa: An Honor to Belong
My favorite article was “The Courage to Fail” for it is a reminder to me that it takes courage to try. You are an inspiration to me.
Thanks, Shauna. As a follow-up to that story, I have been asked to do a reading at ACC in September. Last spring, I took a Creative Nonfiction class and worked on perfecting a particular essay which I submitted to Literary Mama. The piece was recently accepted for publication and my professor wants me to read it for a literary event at the college. So, things have come full circle in a short amount of time and makes me realize that as writers, we just have to keep at it!