Two interesting  points in this article.“If I was not engaging, I was just throwing money out the window,”  Most people value something based on what they pay for it.  I had no financial aid, so I worked every job I could find summers and during the school year (packing plants, cleaning sewers, construction) managed to get my BS, MS, & JD.  For most of my classes  I had my hand in the air more than the rest of the students combined. A professor asked me once why, I said even at 3 questions per class I'm paying $20 per question. Also since I was paying I could take whatever classes I wanted to; such as ballet, a welding class, eastern European history, Chinese legal system.... Second point "College is more than job training."  How many 18 year old's know what they want to do for their whole working career? I sure as heck didn't, 3 months before collecting my 3rd degree if you had asked me what I would be doing for the next 30+ years I would have guessed totally wrong.Having treated college as both a way of getting as broad an education as possible and as a way to improve my learning skills allowed me to take advantage of unexpected opportunities. Managed to get a 4 year assignment to Europe in part because of some obscure class I had taken on the French legal system rather the civil litigation.   To quote someone I forget who "Life's an adventure not a guided tour."Kudos to Ms. Small.

Two interesting  points in this article.“If I was not engaging, I was just throwing money out the window,”  Most people value something based on what they pay for it.  I had no financial aid, so I worked every job I could find summers and during the school year (packing plants, cleaning sewers, construction) managed to get my BS, MS, & JD.  For most of my classes  I had my hand in the air more than the rest of the students combined. A professor asked me once why, I said even at 3 questions per class I'm paying $20 per question. Also since I was paying I could take whatever classes I wanted to; such as ballet, a welding class, eastern European history, Chinese legal system.... Second point "College is more than job training."  How many 18 year old's know what they want to do for their whole working career? I sure as heck didn't, 3 months before collecting my 3rd degree if you had asked me what I would be doing for the next 30+ years I would have guessed totally wrong.Having treated college as both a way of getting as broad an education as possible and as a way to improve my learning skills allowed me to take advantage of unexpected opportunities. Managed to get a 4 year assignment to Europe in part because of some obscure class I had taken on the French legal system rather the civil litigation.   To quote someone I forget who "Life's an adventure not a guided tour."Kudos to Ms. Small.

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