Oddly, education is hindering my ability to write a post about education for the Rocket City Bloggers November blog carnival.
In four weeks, I’ll wrap up my master’s degree in English. I never intended to pursue this degree, but it has been one of the more awesome things I’ve ever done.
I think everybody should go back to school for something in their mid-30s. It remaps your brain and reenergizes your thinking process. Or at least that’s what it’s done for me.
It apparently has not, however, transformed my ability to do three things at once into the ability to do five things at once, so I better get back to writing for work, writing for class and cogitating about this Friday’s master’s exam.
I promise to return to cooking and decorating and writing about the whole glorious mess sooner rather than later.
[…] friend Suzanne encourages anyone in their mid-30s to consider going back to school: “It remaps your brain and reenergizes your thinking process.” I did exactly what Suzanne is prescribing, returning to school in 2007 after an extended […]
Yes, returning to school has revived me. Maybe we should go back to school every decade.
Good for you. My major was English when I went back to school too but I quit. I have always wanted to go back but I am 45 years old now. ::sigh::
I wanted to go to graduate school. Well, I wanted to want to. I’d never get past the nausea that hit when I’d consider that I wouldn’t be done at 6 in the evening anymore.
Congratulations.