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"Ever wonder what became of Family Ties&amp;apos; endearing airhead Mallory Keaton? Well, here&amp;apos;s the answer: The girl who was a shopping savant is now studying computer programming! Yes, Justine Bateman, 47, who played ditzy Mallory on the beloved &amp;apos;80s sitcom, is a college freshman at UCLA taking classes like Engineering Ethics and Computer Science.\r\nThe actress even has a Tumblr blog, called College Life, that details her experience as a middle-aged student. The posts range from random asides (&amp;quot;Pet Peeves: People talking in class. Dull pencils&amp;quot;) to profiles of other late-in-life back-to-school women to detailed recaps of her schoolwork (&amp;quot;Did a 6-hour marathon coding session last night on campus. Finally called it at 1am and the project&amp;#x2019;s still not done, but I had gotten to school that morning at 8am and was starting to not think straight,&amp;quot; starts one lengthy entry).\r\n\r\nBateman, older sister to working actor Jason Bateman (of Arrested Development), told website L.A. Currents in March why she was motivated to get a degree. &amp;quot;I really, really love to work. I love tech, I was half in it. And when I did a search on Monster.com, no matter the keywords I put in, half the jobs were for computer programmers and developers and I thought, &amp;apos;F--k it, I&amp;#x2019;ll just go be a computer programmer,&amp;apos; &amp;quot; she explained.\r\nOther than guest roles on TV shows like Modern Family and Desperate Housewives, Bateman has largely stayed out of the spotlight. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x2019;t audition anymore. I just completely ran out of gas,&amp;#x201D; she told L.A. Currents.\r\n\r\nWhile Bateman has received good grades so far (she posted about getting two A-pluses and one A-minus last quarter), academic life hasn&amp;apos;t been a breeze. Her application to switch majors to Computer Science was recently rejected and the actress -- who has two kids (Duke, 10, and Olivia, 9) with husband Mark Fluent &amp;#x2014; opened up on her blog about how difficult it&amp;apos;s been to juggle school and motherhood.\r\n&amp;quot;I was thinking the other day, in what had to have been a PMS-influenced moment, &amp;apos;What am I doing? I could just pick the kids up from school every day and go to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and get bath mats, etc for the house. What am I doing going to school and doing all this hard work and pursuing one of the most difficult degrees available?&amp;apos; &amp;quot; wrote Bateman. &amp;quot;Then I thought, &amp;apos;Pull yourself together. You&amp;#x2019;re not going to feel like this in about 48 hours. Your the one who would stick a fork in your eye if you weren&amp;#x2019;t working. Get your s--t together.&amp;apos; &amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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