I dropped out of school when I was seventeen.  I never bothered to get my GED.  You see I have an acute case pacrastenation.  I put things off for little to if any reason.  Well, my grandmother died two months ago and that made a switch flip inside my head.  Last Thursday I went to a high school and signed up for ged prep.  It went great.  I am ready to take the ged.  The catch is that the local community college offers a full scholarship if you get a 3500 on the test.  Light bulbs are going off the inside of my head.  I'm almost twenty-seven and I don't have the money to go to college on my own.  If I put the elbow grease into the test, I can get a bachelors degree that won't cost me a penny.  It's crazy to think that I have my own destiny in my hands.  So, this means that I'm going to day school and also sign up to some of the work online.  This may now take me a few a few weeks, but what's a few weeks more?  Plus, say I didn't qualify for the scholarship. I would go to BCC and need to take an entrance test.  If you don't do so well, they make you take remideal classes at $200 a pop. 

 I want to be a Radiologist.  Don't ask me why, but it's what I want to do.  For me to get a job right now, all I can really make is like $8/hr.  That's not enough for my family.  A Radiologist starts at $30,000-40,000 a year.  That's with only a two year degree. 

Part of me wants to go the easy route, but I know deep down that that's not good enough.  I want my kids to be able to see that if you put your mind to something, that anything is possible.  Age is just a number.