I was wondering if anybody esle is currently in college.

Are you going full time or part time?

Is this your first time attending college?

I am in college but I would have to call it part time since I take two classes. I take some online courses as well but nothing major.

I have been in an out of college since 1992. Done the full time, part time, days, night, and even weekends thing...

This semester I'm at communty college I signed up for 3 classes. I'm already in the process of dropping one of them. I also wrote a compaint letter to the school's president about the instructor. I'm taking these classes because they are core classes and I have to.

I can not wait until this semester is over!!!

I am getting ready to go back to school as well. At least I hope to. I was going back and dropped because I started going through my diagnosis. My doctor suggested I hold back until I got settled. Well it has been several years now and here I go again.

I contacted a counselor at the Jr College for people with disabilities etc. She told me I could get a letter from my doctor stating my diagnosis and receive accomodations. Each of my professors will get one as well. I have already contacted my doctor and gotten the letter. I get to meet with a counselor in April. I realize it is just a Jr College, but I dont' want a bachelors degree cause of all the boring core courses that I think are a waste in my opinion. And I will be struggling with the math class I have to take. I can't remember how to do fractions. But I get free tutoring, extra test time, and can test in the test center. I hope I can start this and finish it out this time.

I am and find I have definitely have to take lighter course load than peers...I need much down time than they do....because studying takes much more energy, thought and concentration...so I would not be a "fulltime" college student...I think it would be setup for failure...and get lots of tools in place for success...study habits, learning habits, good pens, markers, tape recorders, sitting in front of class...getting to class early, making sure I know when teacher is available for questions, etc. Once I find have these in place, I find learning to be a wonderful thing...

Joan

I just returned from a meeting at the graduate program I plan to attend in May. It went well, and I found I am not as far away from the doctoral degree as I thought. It took about a year off my plan, so that was good news. About 4 years at part time, which is 2/3 the load of full time, and 1 year of internship, and I'll be done!!! So I'm excited, very excited. I love school, and think Joan is right. Get to class early, have lots of tools. My favorite tool right now is my pocket pc because I can handwrite directly on it and it transcribes my writing into a typewrtten document, which is much neater than my own hand writing. A watch is another favorite tool!! Alarm notes in my pocket pc that go off to remind me of things is another favorite tool. A planner is another favorite tool.
I plan to inform the school that I need accomodations for my classes. One of those accomodations is books on tape, which are provided for the blind and for people with ADD or other learning disabilities, because people with ADD may not be able to read fast or retain as much. The idea is to read the book at the same time as the tape plays it out loud, to increase the number of ways it is being received by the senses. I may also ask for the note taking accomodation, where another student takes notes for you in your classes and gives a copy to you after each class. This is so I could concentrate better on the lectures. I would take notes too, but with an auditory deficit I might miss some things, so another set of notes helps with that. If necessary I'll ask for extra time on exams, or private rooms for exam taking, but so far I have never needed that. If my symptoms ever get out of hand, I should be able to let them know that I need some time to catch up, but I hope that never becomes a necessity. I can do it with out a lot of accomodations, but you know what, why kill myself.....I'm going to accept the accomodations I think will be appropriate and useful.

I also discussed with them my ideas for adults with ADD being a central them of my studies, and they were perfectly ok with that and had the professors with the appropriate backgrounds to help me in that endeavor. So this is going to be fun.


Good luck to everyone in your school dreams

Jon

Am currently studying some MASSIVE books in preparation for a very difficult certification test. I have asked for ADA accommodations, though I am still waiting to hear from them to see what those accommodations will be.

Good luck to all of you in your endeavors!

Where do you share cool news around here?? Well since this is related to career stuff...I'll do it here....Anyway because of my ADD I could not start school until a year later than I did...I just did not want to pick my whole life and move to another state until I KNEW I was stable enough on my meds and ready to partake of the last leg of a long journey toward becoming credentialled in my health care field. Unfortunately, waiting that extra year -- cost me a lot...You see I had already taken and passed that very difficult qualifying exan in my field...before I ever moved out here to finish the reqirements. That meant that when I got here, all I had to do was complete the requriments and I would be done...and not have to retake the qualifying exam. BUT because I was not withing the time limit the professional organization had set for me -- (because I had taken an extra year to get out here), they told me I would have to retake that darn qualifying exam even though I had already taken it and passed it.....well....anyway, I have been fighting that and fighing that and fighting that red tape and bureaucracy ever since I got out here...(1 1/2 years ago)....its been awful...putting in petition after petition...(telling them the reason I waited was due to mental illness/ADD and I needed to be sure I was stable)...and FINALLY TODAY I got word that the darn professional organization of my profession accepted my appeal....and I will not have to retake qualifying exam...I will be a registered _____when I'm done here in June............THANK GOD..................so persistence pays off....

That's awesome!! Good for you :) In the future, you can always post something cool like this into the General Comments Forum :) Way to go!

Sorry, did I post this in the wrong place??!!!

Joan :)

Well, you really have your choice...the General chat forum, or the Job Impact forum :) But here is fine too :D

Good Job Joan!

Jon

Thanks Jon...appreciate that....

Joan

I'm thinking about going back to school for an advanced degree. The devil seems to live in the details.

Originally posted by Wheel1975
I'm thinking about going back to school for an advanced degree. The devil seems to live in the details.

David: Well no kidding....the devil, huh? No, perhaps it's a loving God that would like to lead the way???

In any event, I SOOOO hope you go for it (sooner rather than later)....as um in case anybody here hasn't noticed -- you have TONS AND TONS to offer the world...and it sure would be a shame if the world were to miss out on your talents simply because the "devil" was hiding your details.....:)

So what are you thinking of taking up??? Anyway, NOW is the time...I support you all the way....I LOVE the way you think...and you give incredible support....:)

I`m doing my 5th year of university in Psych and Geog.
I just got diagnosed in 2001 with ADD.
I got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder this year.

I`m taking 2 courses this semester, b/c I got expelled for having crappy marks...
Math 230 - discrete/finite
Geography land and resources.

The math is killing me, I get lost SO FAST in class, that it seems pointless to go sometimes... I learn most of the stuff from the textbook anyway.

I generally think that I need to pay more attention to when my energy levels are highest to do my readings and homework, and adjust accordingly.

I used to get hyper in the evenings, but now that I`m on medication I am braindead in the evening. I`m on Paxil for the anxiety, which has helped me get a regular sleep pattern going on, which is great...! I now usually get up around 8am regardless of what day it is... I have never really done that before in my life.

Anyhoo that`s my deal...

On this thread, Joanrdtobe is blocked from me. It says she is on my ignore list. she is not. i go to my list and it is empty.

can someone fix this please?

thanks!

Originally posted by joanrdtobe


David: Well no kidding....the devil, huh? No, perhaps it's a loving God that would like to lead the way???

In any event, I SOOOO hope you go for it (sooner rather than later)....as um in case anybody here hasn't noticed -- you have TONS AND TONS to offer the world...and it sure would be a shame if the world were to miss out on your talents simply because the "devil" was hiding your details.....:)

So what are you thinking of taking up??? Anyway, NOW is the time...I support you all the way....I LOVE the way you think...and you give incredible support....:)

If I can get really serious for a moment....

Maybe cognitive science. i have a substantial background in computer programming and software system design and implementation. i'd really like to combine the edges of four fields;

Education: Best Practices
Computers: Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Psycology(like high profile jury selection): Psychometrics
Medicine: Neurobiology/ Structure and function and dynamic functioning

i want to help organize an encyclopedia of "ways real people really do things" since they do so with different abilities and disabilities and do so in such a variety of ways.

i want to help create a diagnostic key to map abilites and disabilites.

I want to document individuals so that others and eventually they themselves (perhaps) can reliably reframe situations and settings and tasks with which they have any trouble to take maximum advantage of wht works best for them.

Thereby, i'd hope that people put through the system would test higher on IQ scores and tests, and in real world performance too, by as much as 5 ot 10 points, but across most if not all of the spectrum of IQ.

It ws point out to me that the intelligence of the whole population would be increased more, toatlly and with broader effect, if the average IQ were raised by 10 points, than if the smartest people were increased in number by ten times!

Social, political and spiritual impact might be stuning.


Hey, i might even have a computer that simples spells correctly for me... no checking! :)

So here is th ereally serious part.

I have absolutely no idea how to get from here to there. And this IS the kind of thing that cannot happen by accidnet. Spelling Whatever!

there is a certain poinagnt dispair that goes with the view from behind my eyes. I can't call it depression either. Dispair is the word. Hmm.

That's it. (/serious)

It's an html joke... seriousness off.. he e hee

Somehow I KNEW I'd get an answer like that:D...Don't take this the wrong way of course.....sort of "high falutent" answer(SP).....I partly know what you're talking about and partly don't...And it's OKAY.....As long as YOU do.....:)

So Education, Computers, Psych and Medicine.....

HEY you could do a combined Education/Psych Major with a minor in Business....and find a way to do a research project/thesis on all of the above things you talk about....

Any good schools in the St. Louis MO area???
UM let's see....I have a cousin actually at WASH U. in St. Louis, MO. Great school from what I understand.....

When ever I mention it, people tell me it is more than one degree. Well, people get more than one degree, so i guess that still makes sense.

flatulance, ah... :) well i know you read it, and i know what you thought of it... :)

Now start my search for mr good bar, or any chocolate.

No not flatulence....:)

This is REALLY bugging me David....(as I don't have a BIG vocabulary)...BUT there is a word that sounds like fall-u-tent which means really big or powerful....and that is what I was referring to above....

Um, "Mr. Good Bar"? You lost me....(unless you really DO mean chocolate)

My Mac spell checking dictionary offers:
flu·ent (fl????nt)*Pronunciation Key
adj.

1.
a. Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly: a fluent speaker; fluent in three languages.
b. Flowing effortlessly; polished: speaks fluent Russian; gave a fluent performance of the sonata.
2. Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful: a yacht with long, fluent curves.
3. Flowing or capable of flowing; fluid.


[Latin flu?ns, fluent- present participle of fluere, to flow. See bhleu- in Indo-European Roots.]flu?en·cy n.
flu?ent·ly adv.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


[B]And yes, i really meant chocolate! :) lol

Do you speak with a southern drawl? that can add a syllable sometimes...

of course you could have been thinking of one of the other definitions of:
flat·u·lent (fl?ch??-l?nt)*Pronunciation Key
adj.

1. Of, afflicted with, or caused by flatulence.
2. Inducing or generating flatulence.
3. Pompous; bloated.


[French, from Latin fl?tus, fart. See flatus.]flat?u·lent·ly adv.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.



flatulent

\Flat"u*lent\, a. [L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent. See Blow.] 1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.

Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. --Arbuthnot.


[B]Or even:
flaunt (flônt)*Pronunciation Key
v. flaunt·ed, flaunt·ing, flaunts
v. tr.

1. To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: flaunts his knowledge. See Synonyms at show.
2. Usage Problem. To show contempt for; scorn.


v. intr.

1. To parade oneself ostentatiously; show oneself off.
2. To wave grandly: pennants flaunting in the wind.

or perhaps???

ful·gent (f??l?j?nt, f?l?-)*Pronunciation Key
adj.

Shining brilliantly; radiant: “tower searchlights... as fulgent as half a billion candles” (Nicholas Proffitt).

(I like that one. did you mean that one? (big smile) (by the way, I never heard of this word before in my life!)

Oh God David....ALL that effort and the answer is:

NONE of the ABOVE...the word I'm thinking of is none of the above...sorry....

BUT chocolate is coming....!!!

I Know the word you're thinking of, I think, and it is slang! i can't find it spelled anywhere!

SLANG....YUP....I'm sure you're right.....:) In fact I know you are....

high falutin'

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

THAT WOULD BE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET'S HAVE A PARTY........:D

A "HIGH FALUTIN" PARTY.......

Originally posted by livingwithadd
I was wondering if anybody esle is currently in college.

Are you going full time or part time?

Is this your first time attending college?

:o
yes. I'm in college now. I am going full time - which is killing me and keeping me from doing what I would like to do, like post here more often - and no, this is certianly not my first time. I have two undergraduate degrees, a partially completed masters and am now back in a different masters program, which is completely unrelated to my first one.

lol
MightyMouse

Hey Mighty Mouse! Nice to hear from ya again!

I already have a BSEd., but I've been looking into going back to school part time to get a Master's in Psych--might even go for the PhD in psych if a wild hair gets a hold of me--so that I can counsel, etc. adults with ADHD.

Just recently started looking into online degree programs, which look more promising logistically....

MightyMouse: I just wanted to say I give you LOTS of credit for going to school fulltime....good for you.....hang in there....:)

Smooch: Short comment/suggestion to you regarding on-line programs: I have taken a couple of classes not online but long distance...and the thing with no classroom format is one has to be REALLY self motivated to study and do the work, etc. There is virtually (no pun intended) no constant structure or reinforcement...as there is no "energy" of the other people in a classroom.....One thing most ADD'ers like is the intensity of inperson classroom discussion and an on-line classroom type thing would not offer that....Just my suggestion:) My hunch is you're a wiz in the classroom:)

Joan~

Thanks so much for your heads-up! :D I hadn't thought of that whole "get my energy from classmates" issue.... I have been considering the structure issues...for a few brief moments...from time to time...procrastinating about procrastinating w/o any structure! ;)

(alright 2nd post!)

I'm (back) in college, even though no one seems to understand why*.

My "acceptable" reason for being back in college is to supplement my curriculum vitaie(sp?) for grad school (and up my pathetic record from college. My real reason is that I'm using college as a practice ground for observing my ADD and learning from it before I throw myself back in the pool I should be swimming in (apparently all the jobs I want need an MA or JD, so off I must go if I want a job that interests me enough to counter my ADD weaknesses).

I went back to school last summer with just one class. This quarter I have 2 classes and I'm already getting overwhelmed...and the quarter just started last week! Okay so I also work PT, but I figured if I add one more class next quarter, it'll be the equivalent of being a full-time student, which is something I need to prepare myself for as some schools won't let me study part-time.

*People in my life think I'm a brainiac, even though it took me $800 of 2 days of diagnostic tests to remotely convince ME otherwise (the same tests that indicated my ADD). I also got slammed out of law school last year (horn-tooting: I _did_ manage to double my GPA, which is no easy feat when all the grades are curved, meaning for every A there is an F, etc...too bad what I was doubling was a D- to a C/C-, so I ended up w/ a D+/C- avg.). Prior to that I BARELY made it out alive from college. Yup, and the "deception" of me being highly intelligent began in high school...y'know, lying and cheating to keep your grades because they think what makes a kid smart is the fact they can teach themselves. Sorry, but I learn by hyper spoon-feeding, thank you very much. =)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by joanrdtobe
[B]MightyMouse: I just wanted to say I give you LOTS of credit for going to school fulltime....good for you.....hang in there....

Thankx joanrdtobe. I appreciate your support and affirmation.

MM
:) :) :)

PS. I love how you always use ellipses in your typing! It makes the reading of your posts unique and charismatic.-MM

Yes, I am going to college, full time for Computers Graphic Design.

First I was all excited, but more and more I am getting overwhelmed. I was thinking it would be more computer work, and that is something I am good at. But there is also Drawing (which I haven't had an art class since like 5th grade) and feel way behind compared to the others. And having not been in school since 1996 is not helping either.

Right now I am living with my parents (again) and still haven't found another job. So my parents are on me more about getting a job than they are support for me going to school. They also have cut off my transportation until I get a job from going out...which is where I get my stress relief and my support by hanging out with my friends. The added stress of knowing I need to get a job myself is not helping.

It is also taking me 2 to 3 times longer to get things done than other students. (Partly is from another student..also ADD...who is constantly asking me for help. I don't mind giving help, but it is cutting into my time, and I don't know how to tell her no.) Which means I have to stay at school afterwards, and I am not getting home till 7 or 8 at nite totally mentally exhausted. I am not sure how I am going to get a job.

I want to go the Doctor and discuss meds (I haven't been to a Dr. about ADD since I was diagnosed in 3rd grade), but I don't have the money to. Back to the job problem.



On another note...Wheel1975...you are just across the river from me. I'm on the Illinois side, and going to school in St. Louis. Just thought it was a funny coincidence.


Tina

I've been in similar situation Tina. In school but with lots of other stuff and priorities lingering as well....

I would constantly stay focussed on priorities....studying even if you have to do twice as much as everyone else (so you can eventually get exactly the kind of job you want as a career)...and of course finding a job.....(have you checked with your career services office or perhaps ask your professor if he/she knows of any jobs).....

And if the other ADD person is cutting into your time, yes, find ways to say "no" or at least set a boundary telling her you have much X amount of time to give her....

If the drawing aspect of your studies continues to be challenging, perhaps get a tutor?

I really admire what you're doing.....Good Luck....:)

Hi everyone!

Congrats to everyone who is going back to school. I am considering going back for my PhD or a second Master's now that I have been diagnosed.

Some of you sound quite discouraged. I really understand. It took me a long time to decide to go back because I thought I was not very smart. I ended up on academic probation while earning my Bachelor's degree back in the '70's.

The nice thing about grad school is that some universities look at the last 60 hours of your undergrad work-most of us have much better grades in our majors. My lower GPA did deny me several tuition waivers. When I return to school I will first look for disability services-Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of the best schools for students with disabilities-from wheelchair to ADD and LD.

Yes, I had to work many times harder than most students but I was determined to get a 4.0-it was one of my goals-and I managed to achieve it.

I developed some study methods that really worked for me and would be glad to share them with you all if you would like. Organizing my research paper was the hardest job yet the system I used kept me on track.

Remember to ask for help. Unless you get a real #%#$%$( of an instructor most are glad to geve you all the help you need. They only ask that you apply yourself and make a determined effort. Don't use your disability as an excuse-offer solutions to your problems and don't try to get out of work. Adapt, don't run.

You can do it!

I would be most happy to offer moral support to you. My MSEd is in Workforce Education and Development with specializations in Human Resource Development and Museum Studies.