On my 30th birthday I took a serious look at my priorities and started readjusting them; on my 31st birthday I decided I wasn’t happy with the speed of the changes and kicked them into higher gear. Since then I’ve returned to school with a passion, maintaining high grades while working a reduced schedule at my job and participating heavily in class discussions. I’m attempting to reach out to my peers as well as my professors, but 2 part-time semesters is far from enough time to establish a meaningful network of professional contacts from my schoolmates and teachers. Part of what makes me consider returning for graduate studies is a desire to develop some deeper relationships with my peers.
I want to meet others of like age interested in the long-term pursuit of some shared goals. My goals tend towards the lofty and philosophical, and I have figured out that I am happiest when working towards intellectual understanding of things many consider esoteric. I seek the edges of ideas and concepts, and once I know what they cover I seek to combine them in new ways. I don’t know of a better place to expose myself to a variety of ideas than school, and I’ve never been more excited to engage in the conscious act of learning than I am this semester. The combination of these factors has taken me from thinking I'd never set foot in a school again after graduation to thinking about years of future schooling and possible employment in a school afterward. It's not a place I ever thought I would want to be when I was younger, but now that I'm here it feels strangely appropriate and comfortable.
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