Jeanne Tran:  

Life Well, I thought life began when I became a mother, and it did change completely. But when I started college at 37, life started all over. I was completely entranced with the courses I was taking, making studying no problem. I loved the whole scene, books, classes, exams, professors!!! I graduated DBCC with an AA and an AS with Honors and won the Spanish Award. Then at UCF, I completed my English degree Summa Cum Laude, Sigma Tau Delta, in 1 1/2 years. Then after taking the dramatic GRE's and getting a 1210, I was entered into the Univ. of South Florida's Graduate Program for Special Education, for which the university is specially known. I figured my bachelor's degree was for special interest, but my graduate degree had to lead to employment, after all I had a kid and I was a single mom. So, one year full time into the graduate program, I got hired by an elementary school to teach the emotionally disturbed, a rather violent group, but I learned to love them almost immediately. All this time, my son was determined gifted, put into the Mu Alpha Meta program for math, put into the IB program for high school, and finally I completed my graduate degree with honors, taking my time, one course a semester. So, I did what I never thought I could do, well I never thought I could do any college at all, but I did my Bachelor's degree with Highest Honors, and my Graduate Degree with Honors, the first in my family to achieve graduate school. It was just persistance and love for learning. I still have that,but I have to work now to pay off those de...Expand for more