Here I am at 35 years old, going back to college. I honestly am ecstatic.
Let's rewind back about 18 years; where I was just 17 years old, as a senior in high school. Now, at this point, I had fulfilled all of the requirements for graduating high school except for the senior English class. So basically, all of the other 7 periods/classes were my choice for my senior year. I stand by the thought that I chose wisely. I chose to take the "dual-enrollment" classes that were offered at my high school; in essence, I was both a high school and college student at the same time. I graduated high school with 18 college credit hours without ever stepping on a college campus. I did step on campus the next year, and continued earning up to 37 credit hours before I stopped attending college. I have had every good intention since then of going back to college and finishing the degree that I started, which was Business Administration.
Fast forwarding back to present day; it has been a whole year that my house was on the market. The intention was to sell this house and move back to my home-state of Florida and attend college there. As with the majority of life, it was a good intention. However, over the past year, as I waited, and waited, and waited for someone to buy this house, I have felt more and more stagnant. And yes, I know that was a run-on sentence, but it displayed my point. My life was a run on sentence over this past year. After having a good heart to heart talk with close friends and a really good prayer session with Jesus. I decided to take a swing at applying to the local Christian college that is just a few miles from my home.
I left it all in God's hands, and understood that, if I did not get accepted, it meant that I should leave my house on the market and continue to chug along until it sold, then attend college in Florida. If I was accepted, I would take the house off the market, find a roommate or two and get the degree that I left unfinished years ago.
I was accepted! I start this week as a college student. I am more than excited to be attending a Christian college, where I will be learning about Business AND studying the bible in more depth. God is blessing me and I am so grateful.
I will tell you more as I get further into classes!!
