"Oh, they weren't shocked ... I don't think I can do anything to shock them"

Pat O’Donnell is a couple of years through her graduate degree at Notre Dame University in Fremantle WA. Like many new university students, she started with an initial subject choice, but also like many, that has now evolved and a double major is likely to result…there’s even talk of an Honours year and additional studies.

This current journey and the planned outcomes sound typical of any new student embarking on a tertiary education…It’s just that Pat began this journey at 83 years of age.

Now at 85, with the degree pathway becoming clear, there is no stopping Pat in her endeavours to do her best in attaining a degree and taking full advantage of the knowledge she has gained.

In this episode, Pat tells the story of why it is only now that she is at university, what it means to her and her family, and shares some of the interesting findings she was part of during an archeology unit that took her down to Albany … the town where she went to high school.