As I said earlier, I loved teaching! So the next semester, I started accumulating the education hours that I needed to obtain a license.
Time for another history lesson: I completed several correspondence courses. Of course, those no longer exist and if you are young enough you are probably wondering what that is. Well, I was mailed paper lessons to complete and return and took paper tests monitored by an assigned administrator. These were the equivalent of today’s on-line courses.
I also had to take a couple of on campus science courses with labs. I did fine in the classes with freshmen. In fact, I would even say that I did great- even better than the youngsters in there. I made A’s in all of them to the amazement of both professors and fellow students.
On the other hand, others really turned out to be an experience. One of them was a genetics class. Of course, I knew that it would not be easy to be in classes with juniors and seniors majoring in the sciences. Remember that I had not been in college in over ten years.
Unfortunately, I had no concept of the extent of the problem. I sat there day after day looking at DNA formulas on the board that were totally foreign to me while everyone else appeared to not only already know the material but be totally comfortable with it. Then one night as I was frantically studying for an upcoming exam I noticed a date and was hit with the depressing realization that the formula for the structure of DNA which everyone else had learned in General Biology had actually not even been discovered until after I had graduated! Therefore, I certainly had not learned it in my General Biology class.
That eye opener made me feel better in some ways but aged me quite appropriately as well.
I will add that I thanked God for the C that I earned as a final grade even if it was the only one I ever made in a college course.
Biblical Inspiration: 1 Thessalonians 5:17 – pray continually
Biblical Inspiration: Philippians 4:6 – Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
Biblical Inspiration: Colossians 4:2 – Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Lesson in a Nutshell: Never give up if you are where the Lord has placed you.
Lesson in a Nutshell: As Mark Batterson said in his book, “Draw the Circle”: “We cannot worry about what we cannot do; we have to simple do what we can.”
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