Day 826 of 1000
Betty Blonde #10 – 07/30/2008
Betty Blonde #10
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We knew this semester would be dreary.  Actually, we know that next semester will be pretty dreary, too.  We have come a long way in our educational journey from the days we started homeschool in 2000.  We have finished quite a few things pretty well.  On some stuff, we were too lazy or ignorant to finish particularly well. We can say we gave it our best shot and it has come out pretty well so far.  The hardest part in any of this is to finish well after having gone through years of effort toward a singular goal.

It is necessary to finish elementary school well to start junior high well.  It is necessary to finish junior high well to start community college college well.  It is necessary to finish community college well to start “Big State U.” well.  Now we have to finish Big State U, well to start (real) life well.  After so many academic, nose-to-the-grindestone years, the idea of letting up a little at the end is alluring, but wrong.  The schoolwork is harder than ever.  It includes graduate level math and statistics classes and undergraduate research coupled with graduate school and summer internship applications, it takes up a lot of time.

We will have no break over the Thanksgiving holiday then a short reprieve over Christmas break followed by four and a half more months with our noses back to the grindstone.  This is not a bad thing, but no one would call it fun.  It will all be worth it if we finish well.