Mom of 11 at Harvard: 'I seize the day'
29.09.11
But as her children grew older, Reneau began taking steps to make a life outside her home. In 2000, she started a non-profit gymnastics center in Oklahoma City. And when her youngest child, Julianne, turned 5 in 2009, she made what she admits was a nerve-wracking decision to re-enroll at the University of Oklahoma, where some of her old classmates were old enough to be tenured professors.
Reneau had doubts, she told Morales, about returning to the classroom. “It was really terrifying. In the first day I walked back into class, I really wanted to just quit.
“I walk into the classroom…and everybody is so young, (they) start shuffling around and spinning their chairs and they think I’m the professor.”
It was a different world for Reneau — she brought pen and paper while the other students toted laptops. Still, she not only survived but thrived at the university, completing 76 hours of coursework in a year and a half, and scored a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
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3 Postage Machines That Push the Envelope
15.09.11
Has been the dominant player in postage machines for probably as long as there have been such things, and it strives to stay relevant in the small postage-meter market with its mailstation 2 . Personally, I missed the design chops of the mymail and split-scale layout of the Hasler. The mailstation's big plus is that offers integration with Pitney Bowes' larger line of online shipping tools. Set this unit up right and you can have a full-featured shipping solution right there in your office. Pitney is not shy about building in extra costs, though. A company rep told me that after the first two postage refills you are charged an $8 fee on top of the USPS rates every time you buy postage for the machine. And though all meters come with a full ink cartridge that lasts from 440 to 880 impressions, new ones run $55. Worse, I felt many of these fees were not properly broken out in the sales process. So get a firm quote when dealing with Pitney Bowes. >To submit a news tip, email: tips@thestreet.com
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