My inner nerd is showing. I like learning new things. Great Courses are fun to watch.
I have found that I enjoy reading some of my S17s textbooks. I ordered one for the fall and sat down and read a chapter last night. Last summer I read one and enjoyed learning about it. I usually do this in the summer when I order one from Amazon early. My son thinks I’m a little crazy but doesn’t mind me doing it. (Hey they cost enough!)
Just wondering if I’m the only nut out there.
Not college textbooks, but I once swiped a research journal from my cardiologist’s office because I wanted to finish an article I had started to read while in the waiting room.
I read my D’s books - she emails the syllabi to me of the classes I’m most interested in, and I read along for some of them.
Semi-related, but she goes to my alma mater and she’s had a couple of the professors I had back in the day, and has taken at least one of the same classes (they haven’t re-numbered them in 30 years).
So, yes, darn it, I’m a nerd and proud of it!
Yes, I do, but only if I’m interested in the topic. I also read her college’s summer reading. Good stuff!
I used to do problems in my older brother’s math book for fun when we were in elementary school. ?
I don’t read the textbooks, but I read a lot of the books from their reading lists.
My DH did. I couldn’t get past the first page of their engineering and science based textbooks!
No.
Nope
Not textbooks, but her reading lists for classes.
I tried to read a research review that my daughter sent written by the PI whose lab she is doing her first graduate school lab rotation in this summer. It was far to advanced and complex for me to understand after a few pages.
Nope—haven’t seen our kids books since HS and S usually sells them shortly after he finishes the courses. I doubt I could understand the higher math, physics & EE stuff he studied anyway. D watched tons of movies for her cinema degree, up to dozens/week and had to write about them.
Lots of books off S2’s reading lists. I was a journalism/IR major, so his lists are in my wheelhouse, but they were also really good background reading for our Eastern European travels where he now lives.
Law school textbooks-I’ll take a pass. Sorry, D2.
Clinical psychology-I find psychology interesting, but D1’s Ph.D level stuff is way too dry and over my head.
So no, I won’t be reading my kids’ textbooks for “fun.” D1 has inked a deal to publish a book that will likely be a textbook, so I will read it, but not really in the interest of “fun.”
Guess I am a little nuts. I enjoyed his genetics text last semester and now I’m interested in his Farm Animal Reproduction text book. (I am a biomedical engineer by education so these things appeal to me). As far as physics or ochem, no thank you!
I learned Latin along with my kids 7-10th grade, if that counts?
When my kids took piano lessons, I dusted off my rusty skills and played their music. When they were not home, of course.
Absolutely not
No but I think it’s fun that you do! I do other nerdy things
Sometimes we will read and discuss the same books or series. H and D had several conversations about a series they’ve both been reading. We discuss some movies we mutually see as well but nope, we’ve not had access to many of their textbooks. Sounds like some folks are enjoying this as a way of bonding/learning.