Midlife in College

Week 24 of approximately 130 is in the books in my doctorate program.

This is the last week of this course. Man, it was the toughest one since I started this Midlife in College journey over six years ago. That is really saying something. I have taken countless courses with a wide variety of instructors, teaching styles, requirements, and expectations. If anything a course like this was a real eye-opener and should set me up for success in the upcoming courses.

I would be remiss to say that I have experienced quite a bit of academic burnout in the last few weeks and I hope that the next course will give me some new found motivation. I am excited because I have a week break as the new course does not start until October 26.

This week we wrote a paper to provide a solution to a communication problem using the P-O-L/D-C framework.

Week 23 of approximately 130 is in the books in my doctorate program. This week we worked on a literature review

With just two weeks left in this term I can say this has been the hardest course since I went back to school more than six years ago. I am looking forward to the next class which starts a week from Monday.

This week’s literature review was based on the annotated bibliography with a twist. There is always a twist with this professor.

Week 22 of approximately 130 is in the books in my doctorate program. This week we worked on an annotated bibliography.

This was an interesting week of writing, We wrote an annotated bibliography on a topic we had to submit for approval. I chose Strategic Management in a Family Business. I had to find, read, synthesize, critique and annotate each article. The citations only required 150 words but it took more than nine hours!

This project will be used next week when I write a literature review.

Week 20 of approximately 130 is in the books in my doctorate program. This week we researched decision making.

After a rough week last week and receieving my lowest score on a paper since I started grad school I made a conscious effort to attempt to apply all of my professor’s writing tips to this paper and to my surprise I got a 99 out of 100!

Week 21 of approximately 130 is in the books in my doctorate program. This week we researched team management.

This was one of the hardest papers I have to write yet. This is one of the drawbacks from being in school at 49 years old and owning a small business. I am set in my ways in terms of management and it is difficult to change.