All Blogged Up: A Moof’s Tale

Changes Down the Road?

Ever since I started school back in August, there’s been some discussion about perhaps moving from the online college experience, and actually making the journey 300 miles north to the University of Maine. Daunting. More than daunting. Terrifying …

It makes sense though. My credit hours at DeVry are $480 apiece! Imagine! I don’t expect to live long enough to pay that sort of tuition back … *cringe*

Up at the University of Maine, my tuition per credit hour would be less than $200. With that sort of fee, I think my financial aid would even pay for housing.

And that’s not all …

At U of M, I believe I would be able to take an actual Medical Informatics course which is well balanced between the medical sciences and IT. That would cut two years from my education. At the moment, I’m taking Health Information Technology, really light in the computer sciences, but heavy in health tech - with a bit of health management on the side. After finishing up, I’d need to start from scratch with DeVry’s Biomedical Informatics course, which is far too weighted toward the IT side, and very light on the medical side. I was hoping to do it this way in order to have a better rounded education. However … reality is: I’m going to be nearly 60 when I graduate!

… Right! … I’ll be dribbling on my diploma!

But at 54, with some serious health concerns, the thought of moving away from home for 10 months out of each year for the next 4 to 6 years is, to put it mildy, a little looney sounding.

My son who’s a student up at U of M was home for Thanksgiving, and we were discussing the possibilities. He assures me that there’s plenty of *cough* “old people” up there going to school, and that I would not be roomed with some 18 year old, gum snapping, boyfriend chasing, green haired … *blink* … (did I say that OUT LOUD??? ;-)

There’s a geriatric dorm at the University of Maine???

Anyway, he would still be up there the entire time I would be, since he’s staying there in order to get his PhD, so that would be a plus. But still …

College on my lap top … safe, easy, no-hassle … … … leaving home, sitting in class rooms, living in a dorm … !?!?

I wonder if the student canteen stocks Depends … ?