By Kelly Cacciolfi | Assistant Editor
My name is Kelly, I am a 43 year-old non-traditional student, and this is my final semester here at the Mount. Each semester starts the same way for me: scared to death of my classes, hoping I have great professors, finding my classrooms, and trying to balance home and school life seamlessly. The first three weeks are always the hardest for me in just trying to find the time to balance everything that needs to get done.
I have noticed on our MWCC campus the other non-traditional students and how sometimes they have the same look in their eyes as I do. I call the look the Non-Traditional Student Stare. In the middle of the semester, our stares become, “phew I am halfway there”. By the end of the semester, I feel as though our stares become those of “I did it and see the end in sight”. Thank goodness I am not alone and neither are you.