{"id":7503,"date":"2013-09-04T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T19:14:05","slug":"gaining-uplift-on-the-downhill-mature-camosun-college-students-to-gather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/09\/04\/gaining-uplift-on-the-downhill-mature-camosun-college-students-to-gather\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Gaining Uplift on the Downhill<\/em>: Mature Camosun College students to gather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat? I\u2019d never do that.\u201d \u201cGood on you!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re brave!\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s scary!\u201d \u201cI\u2019m jealous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are a sample of reactions I\u2019ve received from people when I\u2019ve told them that I\u2019m going back to school after being out of school for over 20 years. I hadn\u2019t even gotten to the point of telling them what I was going to study when I went back to school.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after two semesters of full-time school, I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that it\u2019s not an easy thing to do, this going back to school as an older student. It\u2019s actually really, really hard: the feelings of displacement and awkwardness; getting dormant brain cells reactivated; juggling competing priorities of school, work, home, children, and aging parents; ongoing financial challenges; and nurturing that key ingredient that keeps everything humming along\u0143energy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the older students I\u2019ve met here at Camosun have offered up these little gems as some of the concerns that they grapple with. The term \u201colder student\u201d is accurate and descriptive, though some people may cringe upon hearing it. But, it\u2019s true: I am older than the average student population.<\/p>\n<p>Camosun doesn\u2019t appear to have any social networks or supports explicitly focused on the older student. At least I\u2019ve not encountered or read about anything yet.<\/p>\n<p>However, that doesn\u2019t mean that something can\u2019t be started here.<\/p>\n<p>How about starting an informal social gathering of older students? How about the initial gathering of older students occurs on Wednesday, September 18 at 2 pm in the cafeteria at the Lansdowne campus? I\u2019ll bring coffee, tea, and treats, and a good ear for listening.<\/p>\n<p>When does one start being an older student? I don\u2019t know. How do you feel compared to your classmates? How do your goals, aspirations, challenges, and experiences compare with theirs? Does being an older student begin at age 27? 30? Over 35? You decide.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see some of you older students on September 18 in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat? I\u2019d never do that.\u201d \u201cGood on you!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re brave!\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s scary!\u201d \u201cI\u2019m jealous.\u201d These are a sample of reactions I\u2019ve received from people when I\u2019ve told them that I\u2019m going back to school after being out of school for over 20 years. I hadn\u2019t even gotten to the point of telling them what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-september-4-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}