"he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened"

Today, for homework, I'm reading Peter Pan.

I realize any of my science-major friends look at that statement and roll their eyes at my major... but I worked my butt off to get to a point where I could take a class like Children's Lit.

Half of my education went towards Geography, which isn't just looking at maps and twiddling your thumbs...

• It's physical science.. its understanding how the planet's systems work, how they intertwine. 
• Biology
• Chemistry
• It's Maps 
• Reading Maps
• Reading different KINDS of maps
• History of Maps
• Cartography
• GIS
• It's Environmental Studies
• Climate Change
• Human Population Studies
• Animal Population Studies
• Migration Patterns
• How the planet changes
• It's HUMAN studies
• how people change
• how culture changes
• how populations move

I have 100 geography credits under my belt. 

THEN, you have to remember I'm also an English Major. I have 120 credits of English.. which isn't just reading Peter Pan... 

• Classical Studies:
• British 
• American 
• Old English
• Middle English
• Literary Theory 
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• OBNOXIOUS
• Writing
• Basics
• Fiction
• Poetry 
• Memoirs
• Shakespeare 
• (He deserves his own dang category) 

Mind you, English classes aren't just "here read this once and tell me how it makes you feel."

It's... here read this three times, first tell me how it makes you feel, then tell me why it makes you feel that way, and then speculate why an author would make ANY given writing choice and how any other choice would change everything about the text... oh.. and don't forget to write an analysis and research paper on what people historically thought of this, and how it's been used as a cultural model or how it comments on a specific moment in time. 

Granted... My Children's Lit class, for now, is kind of just a "read this and tell me how it differs reading this as an adult and as a child and tell me why children should read this." The hard work is still coming.

I deserve this semester. I deserve to take a couple fun and easy classes. I worked my butt off. I packed 220 credits into four years of college. To graduate, you need 120. 

I'm damn proud of my hard work.

May 17th is a day I have worked tirelessly towards.