One step forward, one step back, or at lease one foot nailed to the floor. I passed my prelims with not problems as the conditions were...

I studied my lists intensely and was ready for the four days of testing. The night before I was to leave and travel 300 miles to take...

My task was to make a list of words to jog my memory. I knew I was a top down learner, that is I had to see the whole picture first as I...

I did not feel good about my prelims. I waited for the mail, the uneventful moment of opening the envelope and reading that I had failed....

Then the answers began to come. The math teacher said she thought I was unsociable because I did not go to the Tavern with the others....

An overly ambitious person will eventually hang themselves. The one I suspected of setting me up to get my teaching job could not settle...

The Counseling and Speech department sent a letter to my department with the testing results. I wondered what effect it would have. They...

The sign was unusual, I had to take a test, in Statistics. My teacher, one of the players, taught a series of lessons, I was not...

Well, I took the Personality test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the best psychological test ever designed. My results...

I had learned early in life that to ask questions can turn against you unless you ask in all humility and are sensitive to the other...

I never did go to the YWCA where the women had originated. They came to my study class and I asked them what they knew. They had been...

I always wondered why some people get all the good luck and others none. Well, I was given the good luck of a part time teaching...

The letter came from the other University. I half heartedly opened it. Not in a million years would I be accepted. Not I, not I who could...

I never thought about my past efforts, which did not seem to lead to success, that they would lead to success in the future. But they do...

If I had stayed at home no one would of ever noticed my unique talents, just my failures. People often judge us by our failure rather...

MY HANDICAP SAVES ME Because of my handicap, to compete, I had to learn things better then most. It may take a bit longer, and I may have...

I had been living in a small three room shack with my three sons. There was only one bed room too small for three beds so I constructed...

After six months probation on the job I was able to apply to get a better job working for the state welfare office as a receptionist. The...

I couldn't believe it and perhaps shouldn't have. The department was offering a fellowship to go to graduate school. I immediately jumped...

I was in the office of the counselor that was to help me set up my graduate classes. He had just told me all my arrangements with the...