Attack of the Study Halls

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I've sent many e-mails and even a blog or two about Charlene's continuing assult on RN Nursing College.  She's just started NS30, the 3rd of 4 half-year classes toward finishing her RN degree.  The first requirement was an Associates Degree which she finished in December, '08.  She thought Algebra, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology and Micro Biology were tough but she was unprepared for the tremendous amount of homework and studies involve in Nursing College.  Throughout all of undergrad school, she mostly hogged the desktop computer we both shared, leaving me to my company laptop.  I bought her a laptop two Christmases ago and took back the desktop for my own.  Worked out well with the wireless thing allowing her to use it in the bedroom, living room and even the back patio.  Even at her study sessions at the coffeehouse with fellow students with the free Wi-Fi.  The biggest problem now is the incredible mass of study materials she uses, including her 'medical-app' loaded iPod Touch.  (I think it's a toss up between the laptop and the iPod Touch as to which is more valueble).  Here's a picture from a week or two ago.  Travis was sneering on pupose as he saw me raise the camera.  They're both doing homework.  Notice Charlene's laptop and the iPod Touch right next to it.  Medical apps are invaluable - better than books, sometimes.  Notice all the books surrounding Charlene (including the big textbook on top of her even bigger 3 ring binder).  And yes, she's wearing her 'famous' Sock Monkey jammies. 

Here's another picture of the same area, while she's in her student nurse uniform, complete with her "stinkin' badges".  More books consuming space in the living room.  That little woven basket used to hold our remotes (we all have way too many remotes, don't we...) but now it holds weapons of mass instruction - scissors, markers, pens, pencils, post-its and sticky tabs.  Her study hall has out grown the living room.......

So, she decided she needed a bigger and more efficient study hall.  Hey, just around the corner is the kitchen with a huge dining table.  Well, guess what!  No more meals served in kitchen until the middle of May when this quarter ends.  I think this picture says it all (complete with dual monitors which she finds she cannot live without.

Books piled everywhere, a plastic basket full of paperwork and....... well, you get the picture(s).........