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College Life of a Retired Senior

Yvonne Blackwood

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Description:Seven years after retiring from the Royal Bank of Canada, ending a thirty-seven-year career, author Yvonne Blackwood surprised her friends and family by returning to school at sixty-four to pursue an English degree. She craved knowledge, but four powerful reasons motivated her: to add texture to her writing; to ward off dementia by exercising her brain muscles with her studies; to incorporate ongoing structure to her life by attending classes regularly; to inspire her two young grandsons to attend university full-time when they graduate from high school. Blackwood attends York University, Canada's third-largest university, and struggles with maintaining her established lifestyle, being in class with hard-to-connect-with millennials, and a shocking diagnosis in her final year. She stumbles upon several obstacles in her quest to earn the degree. They include two strikes at the university, one lasting 143 days; the lockdown of the campus when the WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic; and her hospitalization. The university's motto is Tentanda Via—the way must be tried. Blackwood weaves this theme and the metaphor of climbing a mountain into the narrative as her guiding light. When some situations become almost unbearable, and she thinks of quitting, she perseveres and relies on her faith. She writes, “What I didn't know was how much the pursuit of the degree would inform me, challenge me, satisfy me, and drive me to consider giving up on more than one occasion.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with College Life of a Retired Senior. To get started finding College Life of a Retired Senior, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2023

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Description: Seven years after retiring from the Royal Bank of Canada, ending a thirty-seven-year career, author Yvonne Blackwood surprised her friends and family by returning to school at sixty-four to pursue an English degree. She craved knowledge, but four powerful reasons motivated her: to add texture to her writing; to ward off dementia by exercising her brain muscles with her studies; to incorporate ongoing structure to her life by attending classes regularly; to inspire her two young grandsons to attend university full-time when they graduate from high school. Blackwood attends York University, Canada's third-largest university, and struggles with maintaining her established lifestyle, being in class with hard-to-connect-with millennials, and a shocking diagnosis in her final year. She stumbles upon several obstacles in her quest to earn the degree. They include two strikes at the university, one lasting 143 days; the lockdown of the campus when the WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic; and her hospitalization. The university's motto is Tentanda Via—the way must be tried. Blackwood weaves this theme and the metaphor of climbing a mountain into the narrative as her guiding light. When some situations become almost unbearable, and she thinks of quitting, she perseveres and relies on her faith. She writes, “What I didn't know was how much the pursuit of the degree would inform me, challenge me, satisfy me, and drive me to consider giving up on more than one occasion.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with College Life of a Retired Senior. To get started finding College Life of a Retired Senior, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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