Hi, I'm mk and I'm a two time college drop out! (hiii, mk)
It's been three years now since I walked in my college graduation - without graduating. I went back after a two year break to finish my degree and fell one class short. In order to manage working and class, I had signed up for a distance learning course which I thought would be similar to an online course that I had taken at my previous school. It wasn't. It was more like "here's the course, send it back when you're done!" Well, I never got done.
Now I've been working a contract job that I like a great deal and I got some inside info that they are possibly interested in offering me a fulltime position. While I could likely have it without a degree, it would mean entering the company in a certain category and it's apparently VERY HARD to change categories once you're there. So I'd like to enter in the more preferrable category, the one which requires a degree.
So, it's time to bust out the Shakespeare. I've unpacked the books from storage. I've got 7 more plays to go (Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, As You Like It, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest). I'm so going to do it this time. Kick my butt, people! Wish me luck. And if you're a Shakespeare expert, by all means, PM me!
You need to focus on the end goal. As you know a loy of us here put up our goals for the year so we have a focus everytime we sign on.
Maybe hanging a list of the works to be completed on the bathroom mirror then put the same list on your profile page so we can keep up with your progress. When you feel the urge to let up, poston the forum and we will break out the boots.
Oh mk, I feel some of your pain. Last semester, I suffered through my required course on ol' Dead Bill's plays. Twas truely painful at times. So best of luck to ya'!!
Shakespeare R O C K S!!! You are sooo lucky MK - ooooh to be in college again, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous advisors, to ... boldly go where no one has gone before .... wait, I've gone off topic.
Really, shakespeare rocks:
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
They just don't talk like that anymore. And I so highly recommend seeing movie versions of each that you are to read - shakespeare was written to be heard, not read. This is something that all - all - english professors have forgotten or never knew. See it first, then read it. Get Henry V and listen to kenneth branagh give the st crispin day's speech - good lord!! You will *not* get that from reading it. Well, some, but not all.
I'm done.
And if it will make you feel better, you may kick me twice.
