Tag: dailyprompt

What colleges have you attended?

I took my first college classes when I was in high school. Highland Community College, which began in 1858 as Highland University, was the first college in Kansas. (I learned this just today.) Without ever actually “attending” Highland, I was able to get college speech and English classes out of the way. I have a fear of public speaking, so I was especially grateful to take speech class with kids I knew.

I attended Kansas State University for four years. KSU has also been around a long time. It was founded in 1863 as Kansas State Agricultural College. The College of Business Administration is one of nine colleges that make up the university today. I received a bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting in 1985.

After working for fifteen years, I went back to school to get my masters degree. The company I worked for paid $5,000 of my annual tuition at Regis University in Denver. Regis is a Jesuit university and was founded in 1877.

It took two years of evening classes to earn an MBA from the Regis School for Professional Studies, which was geared towards adult learners. I attended most of my classes at the south campus with other adult students. As a graduate student, I did not feel as connected to Regis as I did as an undergraduate at KSU.

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Regis University

I was the first college graduate in my family. There are many more college graduates in the next generation, including a few who graduated from KSU.

I treasure my college memories. I lived on campus in a dorm for two years, then lived off campus in a small house with two roommates. Those years taught me to be independent and responsible.

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

I am a Wordle addict. (As of this morning, I’ve played 690 daily games.) By the time I get up in the morning, my brothers David and Ross have already played and shared their results on Facebook.

David likes to give hints after playing, as does my friend Brian. I prefer to solve Wordle without hints, but my sister Cindy uses them to her advantage. In just the past week, she solved one game in two guesses and three games with one guess! The average number of guesses is four.

I asked Cindy if playing with clues feels like cheating because that’s how I feel. She said no; she still has to figure out what David’s hints mean. Cindy is very competitive (and shameless!).

Since you can only play Wordle once a day, I found more daily word games to play every day – Quordle, Quordle Sequence, and Octordle. They’re all more challenging than Wordle.

Word games wake up my brain every morning.