All right, everyone. It’s confession time. I have been in the process of furthering my education for ::gulp:: 6 years. And this isn’t some med school saga, either. This is in pursuit of a BA. And do you know what? I’m ok with that.
I haven’t always been ok with my choice to take the long road on the education front. I come from a family that values higher education and it always seemed pre ordained that I would go to college after high school. Initially I was accepted to UCSC (go slugs!) and attended there for a year. During this year, I learned a lot about myself. I learned I need order in my life, (not an easy thing for a recently rebellious young adult to admit!) and that I need to be very careful about the kinds of people I chose to surround myself with. I also learned that if I am unhappy and do nothing to help fix the situation, it could be very easy to spiral out of control.
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Needless to say, my time at UCSC was short (but sweet, more on that at a later date). I came home after one year, and began living at home and working. I bounced around community colleges for a while, finally settling on one that I found to be a good fit. I have slowly but surely been working my way towards a degree and this week I embarked on what will hopefully be my last quarter of JC classes to gain transfer eligibility! Yay!
On that same note, I needed to learn that it is ok to push myself. That having to work for something didn’t mean that I was going to fail. This is a lesson that I am still learning even today, but it is a valuable one and worth taking the time to learn. Take your time, but don’t let yourself stall out.
