by Saturn » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:35 am
Good point, true in your case I suppose but I certainly had no vocation or even real interest in History or personal fulfillment when I went to University.
I did virtually no work, scraped through my exams and thoroughly hated the whole experience so my degree is worthless to me really, not just financially but personally it cost me a lot in the health and happiness quota.
I was too young and immature and socially isolated and incompetent at eighteen to jump into that whole student life and I struggled badly, was intensely frustrated and full of anger that I'd gotten myself into an impossible situation to get out of
However I don't regret it, you can't regret, even the bad decisions because somehow they all make sense in time, with [yes that dreaded word] hindsight.
Although the six years since I left University have by no means ever been a picnic the things I've done and the people I've met over the past three years I would never have experienced if I hadn't taken the wrong path all those years ago.
I really admire all of you, Credo, Denise, Malia, all you students out there who really work so hard and sacrifice so much to gain an education primarily as a thing in itself.
It's an admirable and noble thing and I wish you all the luck in your endeavours.
As for me, I'm content to learn what I can myself, in my own time and at my own pace, not under the immense and dangerous pressure of formal education.
"Oh what a misery it is to have an intellect in splints".