Sunday, January 24, 2010

Eeeek - College!

Scary word, isn't it. I take dual-enrollment classes at a local community college. For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept, it means that I take college classes with college students like a full-time college student, only I only take a couple and I have my high school classes on top of it all. My classes for my second semester start this Tuesday, and because of last semester I have a general idea of what to expect. I also learned NOT to tell people that I'm a fifteen-year-old high school student. (Technically I'm going on sixteen, but nobody cares.) It usually has no unwelcome effects, but once one of my classmates used age bias while peer-editing one of my drafts. Ick. The conversation when someone hears my age usually goes something like this:

Mr./Ms. So-and-So: You're fifteen?!? How are you here????
Me: Um, it's a dual-enrollment program. I take college and high school classes.
Mr./Ms. So-and-So: That's really cool! I'm really impressed!
Me: It's really nothing...the classes aren't that bad...
Mr./Ms. So-and-So: So what high school do you go to?
Me: I'm homeschooled.
Mr./Ms. So-and-So (shocked at this second fact): Wow! Do you like it?

And so on. And so forth. So this semester nobody needs to know. It's fun in a way, because everyone assumes I'm an adult. The most extreme part of this came when I sent letters to the campus paper. The editors ran them, and for all the rest of the campus knew when reading them, I could have been a forty-eight-year-old mother of six children.

Anyway, classes for me start up again on the 26th. I hope it goes fine.

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