About the diary writer
- Barbara McDowell Whitt
- Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- ~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.
Why Worry About School Work - Sunday, March 12, 1961
I got myself up in time to go to church and see the kids I'd last seen just a few hours before. This afternoon I worked on my science project. I don't think I'll ever get everything done. So what, though, if I'm a member of the National Honor Society, have been accepted for college, and haven't got a chance to be valedictorian or salutatorian, why worry now?!? They were tearing down houses yesterday, where we parked the bus, for a future highway interchange.
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Hmmm. Sounds like the onset of Senioritis!
Well, maybe I missed it in an earlier post but I'm wondering what the science project was about.
Ron, that's what Suzanne said not too long ago, that after you know you will pass your classes and have gotten into college, it's a common thing to no longer try so hard. But naive as I am, I had not heard the term before she used it.
I took the easy way out and didn't do an experiment. I made an exhibit showing the length of time people had been on Earth compared to the rest of time.
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