72-year-old West Michigan woman graduates medical school, sets records beginning residency at 73

"Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft, the mother of ABC’s Ginger Zee, may become the world’s oldest graduating medical student."

I'm 60, got my MSc last year, and I'm still looking for a funded PhD in botany/horticulture, but this lady has me beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4n7MFZfcbI #NontraditionalStudent #Aging #HigherEd

I'm so glad I'm a writer. After one more week of lesson material in 1 class, and about 1/2 the normal material in the second, I have about 15 pages of final exam essays to write. (2 min 5 pgs each and 2 no more than 2-3 pages each.)

I can do it. It'll mean a busy week and my own writing is pushed off one more week. But it's also a lot.

#college #academia #nontraditionalstudent

Instructor removed lockdown browser for the second test. Said scores went up. So what'd he do for this test? Returned to lockdown browser.

#Ableism in college.

Instructor is board certified in ABA, so this makes since. #ABAisViolence

#NonTraditionalStudent #Disabled #DisabledInHigherEd #DisabledinHumanities (and probably stem) @disability

My Spanish Compositions class has an informative essay coming up. It must have an issue with two sides and cite sources from both sides.

My unlucky Spanish professor is about to learn way too much about baseball's designated hitter. Being a Spaniard, I'm not sure if the debate made it over there.

#NontraditionalStudent #SpanishMajor

🧵 In the past wk, I have finally figured out what has been bugging me for the last 5 yrs. I do not “belong” at school. Not that I shouldn’t be here, getting an education, but that I cannot make connections w/anyone because the people my age are profs & the young people are, well, too young. I never thought about it until I started my internship & got to work in the “adult” world again. I am the only student in the dept. The only student who enters the bldg.

#nontraditionalstudent #university

I was worried about how well I could do at classes while working full-time (and at times I think I took too many credits), so this is a very nice thing to see today.

#cad #NonTraditionalStudent #architecture #BIM #engineering #urbanplanning

Alrighty, here’s some #mondaymotivation

Stay in school, ffs. You think it’s a lot of work now, but when you are in your 50s, having hot flashes, and raising 4 teenagers it will be far worse than you can imagine. And lonely too. You can’t make close friends with people your kids age. They just don’t go for that.

I’m so motivational. :)

#classof2023 #nontraditionalstudent #stayinschool #dontquitnow #university #highered