learning new things

I have realized there is a lot to be said about learning new things.  I have decided to go back to school in my forties and have been scared, no nervous, no, definitely scared, each time I choose a class on whether I can handle it.  My brain seems tired and like someone who has not been physically active for a while and goes back to the gym wakes up in pain the next day I am literally getting headaches.  I took a basic keyboarding class last semester and found it easy to fallow, easy to keep up with and it worked, I no longer two finger type. So needless to say I felt accomplished and successful. Then this semester I took some computer classes feeling that those skills are such a necessity I had no option and I feel like I am no longer just wading in the kiddie pool I have jumped off a cruise ship in hurricane waters. To say that I feel completely over my head would be an understatement and maybe my mistake was taking it in Summer when it moves so fast. I have always said that the biggest rewards take the most work and if this is proved to be true i will feel amazing at the end of this process I just hope I make it.  I know I am not the only one in this position but a decent grade is required more so than just my own need for a sense of accomplishment it is needed for financial aid standards, see I never thought that I would struggle more in a computer class than a Psychology class but this has turned out to be my reality.  So I go to bed with all of this in my head and wake up in the morning fearful of the day ahead in this class, the fear that I will get to the point of hysteria when it all looks like a foreign language and not just every other word.  I do have to thank all of you on the message boards as I see that I am not the only one who gets confused and coming from a place where I could only check my e-mail and still can not seem to completely work my own phone this will either enhance my confidence to the level where at the end of this I will feel like I can do anything or make me look in the mirror and say " What were you thinking?  You are to old for this."  I am still going to work hard and hope for the first option, and I can promise this, I will never give up.