From the time I started my Bachelor's Degree to the time I received it was fourteen years. I lost my focus there for a while and even moved out of the country during that time. However, as soon as I finished (finally), I immediately started on my Master's. This one I am not getting distracted from.Whatever life may throw at me, I will finish without interruption. On my current schedule, I should be finishing my last class in September of 2014. That will be just a few months after my daughter graduates high school. She will go off to college and I will move away never to talk to her again.
She insists that I have to tell her where I am going so she will have a place to stay in the summer time. I takes me a while to stop laughing. She hasn't yet decided if I am joking or not.
The truth is…I don't know where I'm going when I graduate. Ideally, I would like to move close to Red so we can be close enough to become a part of each other's daily routine. However, life doesn't always work out the way you want it to. Once I have my degree, I will want to start working in that field as soon a possible and will need to go wherever the work is. I don't yet know how, but I'm sure we'll work it out.
I may have graduated high school 25 years ago and am just now getting my education, but my future is starting to look exciting. I don't know where this will take me, but I am glad to be on the journey.
I feel like I am cheating with these short posts.
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It took me 11 years to get my degree, mostly because I got distracted and took a few years off in the middle. But I just edged in under the 12 year limit they had.
ReplyDeleteThe last school I was at had an 8 or 9 years cutoff. I vowed I wouldn't be taking as long for this degree. It will be in one shot.
DeleteGood for you! Completing your Bachelor's and master's at your own pace. . .being open to whatever comes next. . .giving us long words. Every so often I see people's comments about "too long posts". I don't get that at all. :-)
ReplyDeleteDon't be a Hippie
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Thank you. Normally my posts are about 3 to 4 times this length and I started off the challenge with "typical of my writing" posts, but the last few have been shorter to get them done. It just doesn't feel right.
DeleteOne way of looking at writing shorter posts is it does confirm for you what is a normal length post. Unless you're writing for someone else and to that person's requirements, I think a writer can and ought to write however he or she wants. Hang the critics. And, now I shall put a smiley face to take away the bluntness of this comment. :-)
DeleteI didn't even start college until I was 40 then got serious at 45. It was a good thing to do. If someone besides me would pay for it, I would be a career student.
ReplyDeleteYour post is funny. My kind of humor.
Thanks for visiting the ruralhood.
I would love to be a career student. Money is the biggest issue for me as well.
DeleteI tried pronouncing that last word...now I have a headache but I feel so darn smart.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even try to pronounce them or even look up what they mean.
DeleteOne is never to old to get an education or to continue learning. I think it's great that you going after your dream!
ReplyDeleteI am loving pursuing it.
DeleteYou are doing way better than me on your timetable. I've been half way through my bachelor's degree since 1990. I did get a Waldorf teaching certificate at one point, but it's still not a degree. Good job rocking the masters. My son graduates this year and I'm pretty sure he'd freak out if he didn't know where to find me.
ReplyDeleteI just tell her she'll have to get used to it. Besides, she'll have my email.
DeleteGood for you for sticking with it and going for it!
ReplyDeleteI started getting an MA more than once, in different fields, but I was just doing it because I thought I was "supposed" to. Then I realized I didn't really need it to be a writer, to still be considered "smart" etc. I might go back one day, but I also might just take whatever classes interest me at the time. :)
That is my second start on an MA. I think I'll finish this one.
DeleteI have a Bachelors in Information System Security, and now I'm a writer making chicken scratch. I hope your degree proves more useful than mine did!
ReplyDeleteAfter all this debt, I hope so too.
DeleteCongratulations! Going to school at a later age may be a bit more of a struggle, but you have a bit of an advantage over the younger crowd - you're more likely to have a better idea of what you want to be when you grow up.
ReplyDeleteThey told us at school that older students typically have higher GPA's and better attendance. I am trying to prove them right.
DeleteReturning the favour, since you dropped by my blog earlier - thanks!
ReplyDeleteAs for 'short' posts - I think during the blog-hop it's OK to keep them short, that way you can get round to more people!
Well done, you, for expanding your education! Sadly, I had to leave school early to nurse my mother through her terminal illness. Then I just got straight into work/marriage/kids..... it didn't stop my enquiring mind though, and while I don't have any certificates to show for it I've learned a lot, especially History, through various self-initiated projects!
Enjoy the rest of the A-Z hop! (this is my third year and each one's been different!)
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I love history. I considered being a history teacher for a while.
DeleteI'm 3 years into my Bachelor`s degree right now. Thank freaking goodness I can graduate with a degree specific enough to start in the workforce because I would never be able to do more than 4 years of endless sleepless nights, pots of coffee and people at Walmart wondering why I look like hell every time I go there. Good for you for striving for what you ultimately want to do, even if it is later in life!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I am getting a little burned out on school, but I know that as soon as I have been out for a year or two, I will probably sign up for more classes.
DeleteI have my BS in business management and never even considered my masters. I was well set in a career though so that made the decision much easier.
ReplyDeleteHave a magnificent day. :)
i look forward to being well set in a career.
DeleteI love that you're still looking forward to figuring out what/where you want to be 25 years after graduating. I think it's a fantastic journey that you've taken so far. Ha, well, at least based on the tidbits that you share here....here's to a life well lived!
ReplyDeleteThank you. It's been fun.
DeleteI envy you on your journey. I went back to Uni after Spawn was born and trained as a child counsellor. (I know, how ironic) Good luck for the future and to wherever it may take you. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you. My daughter wants to be a children's bereavement counselor.
DeleteThis is an awesome post, very cool that you're pursuing your dreams. I too graduated HS 25 years ago, but I'm on a different path--writing and hoping to get published. May we both find lots of success!!
ReplyDeleteAnd cool site. I looked around a bit. Great bucket list!! I'd never heard of Zorb, which sounded pretty awesome, except for that, if I went rolling around in a inflatable ball I might throw up. hehe. Other than that, I think it would be lots of fun.
I'm not quite how the ZORB thing works. I think it's a ball inside a ball. Either way, I think I have to do it.
DeleteProud of you/ never too late to finish
ReplyDeleteDreams converge on reality throughout the years
Your posts are not short they are manageable length
Lady's Knight
Thank you.
DeleteGood for you! I think it's great that you are finishing your education. Wish you the best of luck and loads of success. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you. I am excited to see where this takes me.
DeleteI can tell from your determined tone that you will succeed in obtaining your masters. I think it's great that your future is now burning more brightly.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It's exciting.
DeleteI had my first college classes in between my jr and sr years in high school. Some kind of summer thing. Then I started college FT in the Fall of 1979. I got my BS degree (now THAT has some double entendre, doesn't it?) in May of 1992 I, too, got distracted. I'm starting my Master's program (in a completely different field) this fall. WOOHOO! :O)
ReplyDeleteI, for one, appreciate concise posts. One fault in my writing, as you can probably tell by this comment, is that I use too many words to tell a story. So, I'm working on that. It's also nice for people that like to leave pertinent comments.
Congratulations on starting your MA.
DeleteI, too, started college in my junior year of high school. I loved it.
I have no problem with the short posts either.
ReplyDeleteI miss blogging. Need. Internet.
...I feel like a footnote.
It's getting really close now. I expect a post the day your internet goes up.
DeleteHaha. The thing about your short posts is that they're still quite full of food for thought. I think that is more important that word vomit with no meaning... not that your long posts are like that.
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Thank you. It's been challenging trying to figure out how to be more concise.
DeleteGood for you!! What an accomplishment! Yu must be so proud! :0)
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Valerie
You and Red are good together so you'll be able to work out whatever you have to.
ReplyDeleteI didn't finish my Bachelor's straight through, either. I was so proud of myself when I finally got it! One thing I always tell college kids is to finish before you do other things with your life, because it is MUCH harder to finish when you've taken a break.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and Red are able to find a place where you can both work and be happy together!
I keep seeing the stats the stats showing that if you quit school, then you will probably never go back again. I am so happy to have beat those odds.
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