Course Completion

I have been attempting now for about 10 years to finalize my bachelor's degree. My story is when I first left high school I had no confidence that I could make it through college - I had visions of failure. I eventually entered a community college and graduated with an RN degree. But I never continued on for a bachelor's. In spite of my capability to graduate from community college, I was still living in fear that I would fail in a 4 year school.

I have desired to get a bachelor's since the early 90's. But because of circumstances which I won't go into right now, I never was able to get it done. Finally, in late 1999, I went to an online school fast track program to get a bachelor's in Business Information Systems. Just as the fast track program was ending, and I thought I had my degree, the college informed me I was short 10 electives even though I had transferred all my community college credits. And that very same month of ending the fast track, I found myself jobless. Not only jobless, but I lost a very significant person in my life - my grandmother. It was a difficult time.

Here it is 2008 - I finally got back to school in 2006 to finish the 10 credits. I will be finish credit number 6 this week. I'm excited this chapter in my life only requires one more course. This is a story that hard for me to tell. Here at work, most people have a master's degree and I am just trying to finish, at the age of 53 a bachelor's degree. It feels kind of embarrassing. And you know what? If I wanted to do what my heart desires, I would start a masters. More on that some other time.