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ull life |> L ike many other mornings Nance Case waits early in the morning for the school bus to see her girls off to elementary school. Nance can’t help but envy the other coffee sipping parents see their kids off and head back home to watch Regis and Kathy Lee because now she gets in the car and wades through morning traffic to get herself to school. Every morning of the 1992-93 academic year Nance hit PSU at 9 a.ra ., traf­ fic permitting, for first year Spanish and then on the other components of her degree in English. Nance hopes to graduate by the fall of 95 and go to the PSU school of Education to teach language arts in the later elementary scliool level. Nance’s daughters Amanda, 9, and Aubrey. 6, have always come first in her academic career. “My goal has been to graduate from college without putting my children in daycare,” she said. this, she Says, has become more difllcult as school districts has had 1 to cut programs and class-time. “The hardest part is ever doing any homework at home. I think I have this in common w ilh almost all I student parents. As soon as I’m in the parking lot and pul ilie key in the ignition. I’m a mom again." Nance says she’s met many returning student who also have families. “It seems like I’m doing a really fashionable thing. I’m really with it,” she said. Her husband, Jim, and her daugh­ ters have been supportive of her endeavor. “From a very early age my kids have ripped open my report card for me and read the letters to me. I think seeing they’re mom in school has made them more drive than a lot of they’re peers,” she said. Nance, 35, says she regrets not having done college the first time she went, after high school. “I was a terrible student the first time through. I had no focus,” she said. “I was completely spacey but without drugs.” No she says she feels guilty every time she misses a class. “If I meet some­ one in a class who’s thinking about dropping or something, I have to bite my tongue,” she said ^torij ^ofm