In between, the 42-year-old senior is getting her two kids, Xander and Arianna, fed and dressed, then dropping them off at two different Oakland County schools.
Then she's off to UM-Dearborn for three consecutive classes, then home again to pick up the kids, feed them, love them, squeeze in some homework, and get them ready for bed..
At the time, I was living with my grandparents, and they were successful entrepreneurs, and for them, that was life.
I go through the checklist of what I'm going to have to do so I do not have that panicky moment where I realize I've forgotten something for the kids field trip or misplaced one of my textbooks.
Or you can have day like last week, where Arianna declares that she's Wonder Woman and she's changing her name and she does not need to go to school anymore.
Some days, I have time to come home for hour so I can review my notes, practice presentation — whatever it's I need to do to prep for anything big that's coming up in my day.
pray that I find parking spot, park on the main campus and then take the shuttle over to Fairlane for my first class.
And he has this incredible background He's from Jamaica, and lives Canada, where, of course, there is healthcare.
One of the I've noticed about being student is that I relate to my professors lot differently than I did when I first was student 20-some years ago..
But to hear her story, how she started out as educator, and then did AmeriCorps, and then was working and then got Ph.D and now she's here — it's amazing to me.
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