OCI was finally posted the day that I sent an email to my dean to start the processing of withdrawing for the year so that I can focus on getting treatment for advanced cancer. I still spent the afternoon looking at what classes I want to take. FML.
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anonymous.newhaven@gmail.com 10:32 am on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
Find one or two you really like yet? If so, pass along an address and I’ll send you the textbooks and more once the class starts up. You can go ‘full nerd’ even while not at Yale. In fact, I’d expect nothing less from a Yalie.
Cancer sucks. I hope your treatment goes really, really well and you come back and see us soon.
Anonymous 4:01 pm on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
In addition to this nice person’s offer, if you pick one from here: http://oyc.yale.edu/ you can watch the lectures as well. Since you won’t be graded AT ALL you can “take” something really challenging. Or you could do one that would be fun but doesn’t fit with your major/career plans. I’m sure the professors won’t mind if you write them with questions, either. And you can do it at your own pace, too.
Don’t feel pressured to go “full nerd,” though. The important thing is that you can have as stress-free a life as possible so you can focus on recovery. Reading comic books all day is perfectly acceptable when your mental energy needs to go towards maintaining a positive attitude.
anonymous.newhaven@gmail.com 9:24 am on July 21, 2010 Permalink
Good point, Anonymous. OP, don’t feel any pressure to keep up with your studies, just focus on being positive, taking it easy and doing things you enjoy. If that includes studying, more power to you, but you can certainly catch up on everything AFTER you beat this.
And if this is all new to you and things like chemo and radiation are in your future and you don’t know what to expect, let me know and I’ll drop you a line. I’ve been through some of that and know others who have been through other kinds of treatment. It can be intimidating at first, but there’s a great community out there that is more than willing to help (and your family) through this.
Hang in there and let us know what we can do. I’ll also amend the previous offer to not just include textbooks, but also a rather awesome Calvin and Hobbes collection. Personally, I think I learned more from those two than from any textbook anyway.
Anonymous 12:11 pm on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
I’m so sorry. You can beat this cancer! And then come back and take all the classes you want to take. Hugs!
Anonymous 7:48 pm on July 20, 2010 Permalink |
You win at Yale FML.
lovesyalefml 12:28 pm on July 21, 2010 Permalink |
I love that, though it is to a certain extent understood, the FML here is not “I have cancer,” it’s “I have cancer which means I can’t take AWESOME CLASSES AT YALE”
Stay strong and when the treatment is over, we will be ready to welcome you into our cabal of nerd-dom with open textbooks
BulldogAbroad 11:13 pm on July 21, 2010 Permalink |
What a lovely student body!
OP, you can beat this! Stay strong
Love and hugs!
Anonymous 1:00 am on August 3, 2010 Permalink |
Oh yes, our bodies are lovely. Thanks for noticing.
Anonymous 4:40 am on July 28, 2010 Permalink |