My First "BLOG" Experience!!

OK-Here goes, my very first blog entry ever. This is part of my English assignment however, I think this could be fun! What a great idea, kind of like an online journal. Cool! Anyway, I am interested in finishing college with an Elementary Education degree. Our teacher told us that it would be a good idea if we wrote our Final Essay on a topic that intrests us. That would be Education, and how important it is to us through out our lives. It is funny, some people think that once they have squeaked through high school they are equiped with all the knowledge they need to go into the world as adults and survive. WRONG!! I really think that our society should raise the legal adult age from 18 to 30 years old. I know when I was 18 I thought I knew everything about life, heck that really started during my early teenage years. I'm sorry Mom for all the touture I put you through!! I dont know how you survived. Anyway, just graduated from High School, I remember feeling kind of lost. What am I going to do everyday now that school is over? From the beginning of time that was all I knew. Wake up, get dressed, go to school, hang out with friends, have lunch, daydream about the cute boy in class, look forward to getting home in the afternoon to go outside and play, do homework, have dinner, go to bed. Get up and do it all over again. Sounds like the movie Groundhog Day!! Luckily I was enrolled at a community college with plans to pursue an Architectural Drafting degree. I was looking forward to the classes starting but it was strange to be able to pick the courses you wanted to take and then be able to choose the times of your classes. Wow, all these choices, is this what being an adult was all about? This is going to be a fun ride!! It got even better when I arrived at my college classes and the teachers made comments like "you are all adults you can come to class or you can make up the work" WHAT?? I dont have to show up and Im not going to get in trouble. Yeah, what a good feeling. Some mornings I just didnt want to get out of bed and go to school, that was OK. I didnt have to show a note from my parent or doctor. I just didnt have to show up. Well, this type of thinking got me a 2-year A.S. Degree in the lightening quick time of 8 years :o) Yup, it took a long 8 years of being gun-ho about school to just wanting to throw in the towel and quit. It also cost me alot of F's on my transcripts. I guess i was too lazy to withdraw from the class, and just stopped going. So anyway, all this rambling points back to raising the adult age! Im sure Im not alone with this type of story. I cant believe that anyone in their right mind would consider me a legal adult. I was living at home, with no bills. My family paid for my school, I had a poor excuse for a job in the Mall where I would spend my paycheck on clothes before I got it. This couldnt be adulthood. Ok-Fast forward 7 years, I'm 33 years old now, happily married and living for the first time as an adult, with bills, responsibilities, obligations...etc..... Well I decide to go back to school and take some college classes, Oh my god, what a whole new experience. I've completed 3 classes so far, I'm taking 3 more right now. I never whine about the assignments, papers, and readings. I actually welcome them. I actually look forward to the work I have to do. I have a goal and I am determined to get there. It probably also helps that this time around I have to pay for college myself. It is EXPENSIVE, but it will be worth it when I am standing infront of my own classroom one day!! At the end of all this rambling, I just have to say that getting an education is very important.