Twenty years ago, I gave up on college. By the spring of 1994 I had attended two years of school at Redlands Community College and one year at South Western Oklahoma State University, and still didn’t have enough credits or the right combination of classes for a two year degree. After three years of college I had run out of time and money. I quit school and joined the workforce full time. Me, in college. In the year 2000 (nine years after I had originally started attending college), Susan sat down with copies of my transcripts and ran the numbers.… (read more)