I went to college straight out of high school because it was expected of me. i was self medicating with lots of alcohol. it took me three years to get an associates degree. an unplanned pregnancy led to marriage and full time motherhood. i always wanted to go back to school but never knew what for. when i was 35, i started again at the community college taking just one class a semester figuring i would eventually decide on a major once i got core requirements out of the way. it took me ten years, but i eventually earned a second associates degree and my bachelors degree in 2008. that with having a major nervous breakdown in 2007 and being hospitalized twice, one of those two weeks before graduation. I was rejected from grad school because of the whole breakdown mental illness ptsd bipolar mess that happened during school. But i did make it thru with a 4.o.