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Continuing Education
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The best investment
A photographer-turned-financial planner explains why going back to college was the right move for him When you were younger and had fewer responsibilities there was a sure-fire remedy for job dissatisfaction: quit and go work at a different record store. But now you’re older, further in debt, and after a bunch of years toiling in […]
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Classes from A to Z: 26 ways to learn
A is for…Animation Animatus Studio offers a beginner-level 3D animation course using the Lightwave 3D Discovery Edition animation, a program used in both TV and the movies. Saturdays 11/18, 12/2-16; 34 Winthrop St. $189. 232-1740, www.animatusstudio.com. B is for…Baby signing As part of Rush-HenriettaSchool District’s extensive fall class schedule, Ann Buyea teaches parents how to […]
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Help to pay your way
Part-time or full-time, paying for school is often times the hardest part of going back
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Lesson plan
Some of life’s lessons just happen by accident. Others you have to seek out. You probably already know the many colleges and cultural institutions offering classes in our education-rich city. Our goal here is to point you towards some learning opportunities you may not have heard of yet. We’re also here to tell you that […]
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Pay a little, get a lot
Okay, hands up all you people who don’t venture west of the Genesee. You might be surprised learn there’s more to the Greece Central School District than acrimonious school board meetings and a well-orchestrated Presidential visit. Gates resident Mary Kieffer, for example, is learning how to stop and reverse the aging process. She’s taking her […]
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Staying alive
When Paul Gardner takes three-day weekends in the summer he travels light. He wraps a small pouch around his waist to go camping in the mountains of Naples or the Adirondacks. In the pouch, Gardner carries a disposable poncho, a lighter, a knife, and a 12-foot rope. And yes, the survivalist does this on purpose. […]
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Sit on the other side of the desk
It has been said that the best way to learn is to teach. What exactly will you learn: about the subject at hand, about the learning process, about yourself? Probably all three. And don’t forget the warm fuzzies: that glow you get from giving back to the constantly recycling education pool. If you look, […]
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Spanish without the bull
At first I thought he had a little something on the side. My husband would lie in the hammock, book open on his chest, murmuring and smiling to himself. In the evenings after pulling in the driveway he’d sit a little too long in the car, as if dreading to come inside. I was beside […]
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Fond memories of a big yellow bus
Fall is such a funny, nostalgic time. Even those of us who don’t particularly miss our school days can still fall susceptible to the classic fall-time itch: the one that makes you want to fill a backpack with new pencils and notebooks and go wait for the school bus. Maybe it’s the itch for new […]
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Go learn your lesson
If America is the Invisible University, Rochester is surely one of the institution’s biggest colleges. Look hard enough and you can probably find a course in nearly any imaginable subject, night or day. Expand your definition of “informal education,” and the learning opportunities in this town are limitless. To find a course to suit […]
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Coursus interruptus
In a world where everyone is an expert at something, my lack of expertise in any one area is a problem. I’m surrounded by professionals: doctors, educators, curators, software gurus. In lieu of grad school, which seems really hard and expensive, continuing education is my only hope. When the two-color continuing-ed brochures arrive in […]
