I can’t think of a clever way to seamlessly lead up to my announcement, so here it goes:
I’m officially a college student once more.
(What did you think I was going to say??)
This past Thursday was my first day back in school. I’ve gone from a Big Ten school to a much smaller school without a football team. From living in a dorm to commuting to college. (If anyone seriously needs some advice on the college experience, I’m probably your girl. And whatever I can’t draw from personal experience, I know someone who probably has.)
And now, from obtaining a B.S. to a B.A.
I know what you’re probably thinking. You’re probably scratching your head and going, “Whaaaaat? What do you mean that your first degree is in Human Biology? All you ever talk about on this blog are books and writing projects.”
Yeah. Well. That should have been you’re first hint at where my true passion is.
So now I’m working on my Creative Writing degree. Because this is my second bachelor’s, it’ll only take me three semesters to complete this and I can skip out on all those pesky gen-eds/pre-reqs. I can totally handle that.
I wish I could say that I thought long and hard about this for months, but that would be a lie.
It’s true that I may have gone back and forth between two degrees of the opposite academic spectrum while I was at MSU, but in the end, I was too scared to switch out of biology when I was already so close to completing it. At the end of my junior year, I made the decision to not ever go back to school once I graduated. I was going to be done.
And so, for the past two years, I was dead-set on never sitting in another classroom again.
But then something happened this past April and the seed of returning back to college took root. I did some research for the next two weeks and contemplated the change of heart. I knew that my subconscious must be telling me something when I began to have dreams where I was explaining to people that I was back in school (this was quite bizarre once I woke up and remembered it).
In the end, I was crazy enough to fill out an application in the beginning of July to enroll in the upcoming fall semester.
Now here I am. I’m back in college to refine my writing abilities and, hopefully, have an easier time getting my foot in the door of what I really want to do in life. (Also, I think I may have secretly missed being in school as strange as that sounds.)
But the most important take-away for you, as the dear reader, is this: I can now legitimately dole out writing advice that I gained from my classes.
...And the second most important take-away is this: I better not hear anyone say that I’m not a “well-rounded” person.
