Back to School

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
~Albert Einstein

Going back to school again in 2004 was inspired by the realization that I wasn't going to live forever. I don't really know why this is something I want to achieve in my life. I've always been told I was smart and during elementary school I consistantly was on the honor roll. It came so easily to me that I felt as if surely I was somehow cheating. But sometime during junior high it became uncool to be smart and I began messing up just because I didn't want the "brainy" lable. I barely graduated from high school, not because I couldn't do the work but because I didn't want to do the work. Then there were the years after high school that I believed I wasn't very intelligent. If you're reminded of something often enough it becomes your reality. I went to college off and on during that time period and my grades were good but I never had any direction, my major changed everytime I enrolled in a class. I still always wanted to get my degree, so in 2004 I went back to school and that goal is now just three classes away. It hasn't been easy and I've wanted to quit more often than not, but now with the light at the end of the tunnel, I know I won't. In fact in 2010 I will actually walk and receive my degree in New York!