:: Dreams and Other Chimera ::

:: 5.6.07 ::

Another Tale:

I went back to school last year, most of you know about that, but I want to debunk some of the myth around it so that I encounter less misconception about it.

I've been going to Raven's Old Year's Wake for more than a decade now, but I can still remember them all. For some time my eulogy would be very depressing, because I imaginged that I had a huge karmic debt (or something akin to) and that I was just digging myself a hole at the expense of my friends. This sort of things went on for years, I had been kicked out of university shortly before my 19th birthday, and was working your basic menial type jobs. The sort of money that you make at those jobs, as I'm sure you'd imagine was not much, and it was hard to make ends meet, and I relied heavily on my parents to help make ends meet. I didn't really have any idea what I wanted to do.

Years later, after I had worked for years, I switched jobs and ended up in a warehouse, moving stuff with a forklift, throwing boxes, and so forth. But within a week of the job I had decided that I wanted to be an engineering student. This was sometime in the summer of 2003. I went back to school. I took night school classes in 2003 - 2006, and eventually built enough classes up to be readmitted into a university. I spent nearly a thousand dollars on university applications that summer, but only got two bites, University of Regina, and University of Saskatchewan. The university of Saskatchewan was the logical choice, but they wouldn't let me into engineering with the marks I had, I had to improve they said. So I redid a bunch of courses again, and took a bunch of new ones, got reasonably good marks, which leads to today, when I recieved my acceptance into Engineering. So, 4 years later, I did it.

Anyway, it took 4 years of work, in brief overview, but was well worthwhile. It's 4 more years until I'm done that degree, and that's if I only want one, but, 8 years isn't too long to wait for something you really want....

James

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