My closest friend Kathy and I went to visit Missouri Western University - about 40 minutes from home and wemare joining the ranks of the Non-traditional students there.
Missouri Western State University is a public four-year college in Saint Joseph, Missouri. The school enrolls 5100 undergraduate students and has a new Master's degree in Applied Science with emphasis areas in Information Technology, Chemistry, and Human Factors and Usability Testing. The university was founded in 1915 as a two-year institution called St. Joseph Junior College. It was transformed into a four-year college in 1969 and became a member of the State of Missouri higher education system in 1977 with the name Missouri Western State College. On August 28, 2005, the name changed to "Missouri Western State University" due to a state law changing the institution's name. That will take some getting used to since I went there last in 2005. Then I started feeling terrible and could not think at all - so I took a break. I think that was the diabetes.
Kathy got a 29 on the reading ACT and will be great at being a student. We spend a lot of time talking about ideas. She is a pastor with the Mid-American Indian fellowship, along with her husband Randy. They have helped so many people, including myself and my family, that I have often told her that she needed the documentation from a college - then she could make a living from her gift. She is joining me as a student there and getting her degree in social work.
I now have to overcome two obstacles - What degree do I want to get? (or what do I want to be when I grow up) and since I took "Sick Leave"; can I extend the GI Bill for the 2 years I need to get my bachelors degree? I paid in the money, so I hope the bureaucracy will have some give.
Well, I reviewed the majors and I would like to take journalism and French. The GI bill extension is in work. I wrote a letter and I had my Primary care doc to write one about my illness. Man, when you put my diagnosis in medical terms it sounds sort of serious.....Which it was but I am doing well now - so it doesn't seem real to any of us.
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