This is what studying during the kids’ naptimes looks like:

I saw this genius idea from a friend on Instagram (Hi Amberly!) for tracking the progress to finally finishing this bachelor’s degree. I made up my own progress board, with a little encouragement from Arrow.

This semester I’m working on macroeconomics, content marketing, chinese philosophy, and classics of western literature.

This next section is a bit more info on this semester’s courses and my thoughts on them.

Content Marketing

This class specifically teaches us how to create different kinds of shareable content and how to utilize SEO to market them.

I love my marketing classes. I originally received a degree in marketing, and am thrilled that my current university is offering more marketing courses. I hope they open an official major in marketing. I am looking for an MBA with a marketing emphasis, but I’d really like to study just the marketing.

Macroeconomics

Economics is the study of wealth & resources, and how those resources are distributed within a community. In this class, we’re looking at this distribution on a macro level, or from a national perspective. The macroeconomics class is going to be a good one.

I took microeconomics last semester and burned and wept my way through it. Now I feel in a comfortable place to understand what in the nonsense is happening. However, economics is fascinating! For me, it’s a happy blend of the finance, wealth distribution, sociology, and government policies- all things that I enjoy. I’m excited to learn more and sneak in some of the econ stuff into my students’ lessons ;).

Chinese Philosophy

This course evaluates the core philosophies of ancient Chinese thought leaders. So far we’ve have studied the doctrines of Confucius.

Chinese history is fascinating, though I’m slaughtering my pronunciations. The similarities between ancient cultures – ones who couldn’t have possibly had contact with each other – are striking. It begs the questions: At its core, WHAT is human nature? What is divine inspiration by God’s hand in these developing civilizations? What do we incorrectly define as God? Why do groups of people want to dominate other groups? Why are we still like this?

Taylor and I both took a Mandarin Chinese class years ago and I’m thrilled we remember some of the content. I hope this is a class we can bond together on.

Classics of Western Literature

In this class, we are reading some of the most impactful works from ancient western history.

The western lit classic books have so far been rape-y, battle-y, and doing what one naturally does to entice the Greek Gods. I had mistakenly thought “western classics” was the same thing as “American classics”. (Classic American assumption right there smh.) I thought we were reading Huckleberry Finn. Turns out we’re reading the Iliad & the Odyssey. Yeesh.

These classes are neatly packaged into one semester as I teach and raise babies and hyperventilate into a pillow every Friday night.

Four more classes are in progress, and, like, just so many more to go before I complete this business degree. (Hopefully I can transfer a few more from my previous attendance at the University of Utah way back when I was dumb little freshman.) Then again, if my school DOES open a marketing major, I obviously have to take all those classes. And I am interested in a psychology minor. And art history minor.

All of this is to say that Taylor might be right when he says I’ll never be finished with college. 🙂