The boat that sailed away - forever?

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The first time, IIRC. I attempted to get into uni and it blew up on me.- I made the metaphor of or like this title. Now, , all these years later, maybe I never will go and maybe I should just wait to die .
Even at an older age, it could have been like I was 18-25, a rite of passage, a step into a new world : that I never had .
I cod have had the edu ational learning atmosphere , and, yes. the experience : Satisfying .e and getting it over with .
I could have got it out of me - perhaps been rendered employable - I imagine the air and the scene . People just seem to want me tucked away in a Looney bi. equivalent.
Maybe the attainable dream, that I'd wanted for so long, is gone forevor.
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...You know, I spoke before about my " practical " realizations of how I would go to uni ~ if I ever did .........................

...OK, I hunted this out to add on to it - Actually, I said it fairly well the first time, as far as saying things that would me cry . I pretty much can weep and be sad every time I think of never ever having my dream of going to uni - I'm crying now . There's at least some wet, physical, tears now, though it has, historically, been hard for my dry eyes to produce tears.
I don't know how to use a computer and I would need that knowledge to go to any kind of school. No one will show me how YOU CAN'T " download a great tutorial " if you, essentially, DON'T KNOW HOW TO DOWNLOAD!
If the walking - even wheeling - on a green uni campus is never to be for me - what? Hope for an SRO somewhere where I could read those books I bought in 2018 before I die ? Maybe, then, if I could find a friend or.two who would do it after my death, some uni campus somewhere could be found to sprinkle my ashes on on the down low so I could materially have, in death, what I never had in life . I pretty frequently think, on many days, that I'll die in the night and not come back too-morrow .

In order to download, you just click the button that says "Download" from whatever website you're downloading a file from. That's all there is to it.



Since you know how to use WP and Facebook, you already know how to use a computer for the kinds of things you would use a computer for.

The online schooling I did, did not require me to have any special computer knowledge. Which is good because I don't have any. The difficult part was the actual schoolwork.

I've listed these before, but here they go again anyway.

ALL Santa Cruz Public Libraries offer free, hands-on classes in computer learning. They call it Digital Learning.

https://www.santacruzpl.org/digitallearning/

And then there's the Downtown Senior Center which has a great diversity of classes at their Senior Computer Center.

http://www.seniorcomputer.com/

Grey Bears of Santa Cruz offers free, low cost, and by-donation, classes for seniors, including computer.

https://www.greybears.org/classes/

Cabrillo College Extension offers a class in basic essentials skills for $100 if you can swing that.

http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/extens ... uters.html

Watsonsille/Aptos/Santa Cruz Adult Education has intro to computers, email & the internet classes for $50.

https://waae-pajaro-ca.schoolloop.com/p ... 0141#intro

...Thank you to both.
As it happens, at this point I have pretty much permanently-for-now left Santa Cruz for San Francisco. There's just more medical stuff available there. .aybe I should change my ID - but, whether it's a case of my phone's limitations or mine or both, I'm not sure I can do that on this phone. I'll try, I guess. Otherwise...maybe wait till I can get to a library computed? About all there is.
I sit could use someone sitting right beside me & REAY rest showing me what to do, where to put my fingers, what the basic machinery is. I'm think, especially with my tiny scrambled amount of information perhaps keeping me from being a " clean slate " - being fresh & brand-new and the teacher showing me what to do. More later.

Like I said the fact that you use WP and Facebook and whatever else means you already know what to do, as far as anything you're likely to ever use a computer for.

Computer classes are either for someone who's never once gone on the internet, or for those who want to learn advanced computer skills that you and I will never need.

If by where to put your fingers you mean touch typing, that's going to involve a typing course and takes a long time to master. Most people just hunt and peck.

...My lack of computer skills are a secondary point here . Thank you for your concern, however.

...I can be fairly cheerful a d the. I'll think of the image of a Sabbath
on nice, calm .imy breezy, water said g away - and I'll instantly cry - maybe with wet tears - as happened just now . I imagine a nice, green-with-skme-brown, college campus - I imagine myself walking on it dresses student manner ...

Hi ASS-P,

I'm touched by your situation, and while I don't have any specific advice to give, I would like to encourage you: please don't give up. I have seen the power of perseverance and have faith in the new avenues for education that exist these days (and obviously, not just in Santa Cruz--San Fran is a large hub and certainly must have resources there too.) Though I don't know you, I believe that you may be underestimating yourself. Please know that I'm cheering for you.

...I kind of want the old avenues. I want at least some slice of what I didn't"t ger . I do want the education-immersion - and, yes, I want " the college experience ", at least some slice of it, at my age - and level of health . Thank you .

Have you considered an online slice of it?

Enrole in an online class. Learn at your own pace. Interact with the professor and other students via email/chat etc. At least get some of the education component.

You would have to have a reliable regular internet connection and perhaps an old laptop vs. phone. Many universities all over the country, and the world, offer many of their first year online classes for free so there's no tuition. From the reading I did, the only expense is if you want to pay for a transcript to be issued.

This, IMO, is an achievable goal vs. trying to register and go attend classes on campus somewhere. It might not be super super easily achievable, but, it's possible.

...My eyes are rather weaker, I"m having trouble with them now . (I do sort of have brighter vision when I'm on the THC edibles, too .).
You know, when I go on You Tube, I think about how " everybody in the world ", more or less, knows how to put things up on YouTube. I don't . This, again, underlines how cut-off I am - And there's many other ways I'm cut off, too .

The process of putting a video up on youtube is very similar to making a post here on wrongplanet. If you shot a little test video on your phone and made it your goal to figure out how to create a youtube account, login to it, and upload the video and then share it here, I bet you could figure it out on your own in a matter of an afternoon.

Truly, it's about a 5-10 minute process. If that. But if you have to read some instructions or a how-to guide or the help FAQ section of youtube or w/e, it could take an afternoon to wrap your head around and grasp I suppose. But once you achieved that, then maybe you'd have that sense of accomplishment that makes one feel like "Hey, if I can learn to do this online, I can learn to do something else online," and then maybe filling out a college application for a free course won't seem like such a daunting task.

Youtube, and many other websites, are very, very simplified so that virtually anyone can navigate their pages and follow the process to use them. Seniors, children etc. Of course those who were raised using computers will "get it," in mere seconds & others who've never used such a site might take a whole afternoon of hunting around the page reading instructions and so forth trying to figure out what to do, but it's not an overly difficult thing to learn.

Heck, I bet there's even a youtube tutorial on how to upload to youtube! There are video tutorials on there to learn how to do all kinds of things. I've used some mechanics ones to see the exact process of doing a brake or clutch job on specific cars so that I know exactly what tools I need and what order of operations to remove parts in etc.

Here, found one of several that has 4.7M views so a lot of people have relied on this short video to teach them:



Maybe you'll have to dial things back another step and do a search for how to shoot a video from your specific phone or tablet - but my point with all of this is that via google and youtube you can search for instructions on how to do all of these things & more, from the most basic to the most advanced. Anything you want to learn, if you're determined to learn it, you can search for on the internet and find someone who's created a step by step instructions list or even a video like I posted above that will guide you through the process. Invest a little time in learning each thing and build upon your knowledge, skills, and confidence that you can learn and do other things, too.