My son Travis is an adjunct History Instructor at Arkansas State University this year. The other day, one of his students came to visit him during his office hours. As the student was leaving the conference, he said, “We’ve been trying to figure out just how old you are. At first, we had you pegged mid-twenties, but you know so much about stuff that had to have happened way before you were born. The more you talk, the older we think you must be.”
“Well,” Travis asked, “how old do you all think I am now?”
“Mid-to-late thirties is what we’ve come up with,” the student replied.
“You had it about right the first time,” Travis said with a grin.
“But how do you know so much about what’s gone on in the world when you’re so young?”
Travis said the first thing that entered his mind was that he’d read or been read to all of his life.
Only after that did it occur to him that having both a BA and an MA in History and being almost finished with a second Masters Degree in Political Science might be contributing factors.
“Well,” Travis asked, “how old do you all think I am now?”
“Mid-to-late thirties is what we’ve come up with,” the student replied.
“You had it about right the first time,” Travis said with a grin.
“But how do you know so much about what’s gone on in the world when you’re so young?”
Travis said the first thing that entered his mind was that he’d read or been read to all of his life.
Only after that did it occur to him that having both a BA and an MA in History and being almost finished with a second Masters Degree in Political Science might be contributing factors.
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