The Hub September 2016 | Page 26

Story by Shelley Divnich Haggert The first time I walked into a university lecture hall, I was carrying a little more baggage than a backpack full of textbooks. My morning had started with a round of feed-the-kids/pack-the-diaper-bag/drive-to-daycare before I was free to join the coffee line in the student centre and start haunting the halls of higher learning. Though not much older at the time than the typical student - some of my high school friends, in fact, were students themselves - I felt like I was a hundred years and a world of experiences away from them. Lifelong Learning