@cak
guess I got a year to go, :)
But to be honest I don’t know why so many people don’t put theirs up
I guess I had a different experience with my education
It was worth something to me
I spent 6 years at NYU taking every opportunity I could – though I was pre-med with a bio major, it was important for me to take minors far different from the sciences – anthropology and Russian Literature and I was a course away from a philosophy minor…but this education wasn’t only about the courses, it was about where it led me throughout my educational career…I didn’t dorm and I commuted for over an hour each way but I stayed till late every night because I was doing peer education work, running clubs, taking tae kwon do classes, what have you…and because of NYU, I traveled abroad to study in London for a semester and traveled all over and because of NYU, I traveled to South Africa to study at the University of Cape Town and I worked the soup kitches, the hospitals, the protests…it was the start to my enlightenment, in a way…I met my best friend because of college and he is family to me now…I did research, changed gender policies, saw our school go through the suicides, the sit-ins, the graduate student strike…I was so inspired for so many years and now I put my diplomas up because I graduated from the only school I ever applied to, not once but twice and when I stood there at Yankees Stadium this past year, I had my oldest son with me and I did not yet know I was pregnant with my second and I smiled at my best friend and at my partner and knew that the person who received that acceptance letter in 2002 was an incredibly capable adult now and so they hang there on my wall to remind me that though I spend a lot of time on being a mom and working and being in love, I have something of my own, my hard work and my memories and it encourages me to keep working towards a time when I can go back to school and get my PhD…
so I guess what I wanted to say is that I was one of the lucky ones, I loved my time in school, I miss my time in school, I changed my life around because of it, I believe it gave me a foundation in social justice activism and that will be more than valuable to me from this point on…and also, thank you for inspiring me to write this