I thought of an economics class I took in college today. I had to take one economics class as a pre-rec for my bachelors degree. I was thinking about this because I took intro to Economics because it satisfied my requirements. I needed one math class so I took that because it was offered in the summer and that’s how I operated when I was a college student.
I was pregnant before I was even accepted to UofM-Dearborn so my college experience then was to work Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and take classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I took full loads for every single semester and I went extra full-time in the summer! I had to finish college and get our own place (Sean and I) before Sean got too old!
I was thinking about this economics class because I remembered my professor. I even remembered his name! Twomey. So economics is not my bag, it’s too math-y for me! But I needed those three credits so I took it in the summer. I remember he was probably mid 50s and I liked how he explained things.
We were talking about a huge amount of money for something for being fined or it was thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars and I remember he looked at the kid sitting in the front desk and kind of nonchalantly said, “That’s more money than you and me have in our pockets together!”
I think that I was outgoing and gregarious at WMU because I was enjoying my college experience. But it all changed and a degree was a necessity at U of M and it was a race to finish! I remember that professor Twomey came up to me after class close to the end of the semester and asked me what my major was.
I kind of smiled because I knew that he was asking me because I wasn’t really doing well in the class! I said to him, “Secondary education with a major in English and a minor in history.” Then he said, “So, you don’t need this class?” I smiled wider and shook my head and told him, “A ‘C’ or better and it counts.” I remember him just nodding and saying, “Oh, you’ll be fine then!
I don’t remember what I received in the class, maybe a low B? But I got my degree even before Sean started preschool! But, I thought about this class because I liked how he explained macro and micro economics to us. I was thinking about that today because what Dr. Harris said to me regarding my vision is 100% accurate!
Dr. Harris told me that he did not want to raise my prescription because he did not want me to sacrifice my nearsighted vision. It made sense to me today because I am NOT wearing my contacts! I have to blog on my iPad now because I no longer can see anything other than my text messages on my phone because I have it set to larger text (it’s two ticks away from the right) my vision is deteriorating and I really can’t think about that no but yesterday I was wearing my contacts and I could not blog because I cannot see with my phone. I am writing this blog post with my phone sans contacts so I can see.
I’ve been thinking about that, I can’t really see distance (the macro) with or without my contacts but I can see (the micro) without them.