Let's Try Again

The last time I went to school for anything meaningful was in June of 2008. Looking at it now, that was over two years ago. I know that typically, when people are done high school, they would like to get into some sort of post-secondary education. It's not always the case, but it's usually how things go.

The last time I started school, I had no idea what I was doing. I was anticipating on getting a BA in Music. Things have drastically changed since then, and it's hard to believe that it was two years ago. Looking at it now, I never fit in with the UofA education life. I never made more than a few new friends, and I had absolutely no desire to study. Initially, I thought that if my four years with the UofA was going to be like that all the way through, I'd want no part of it. I barely managed a 2.0 GPA. Actually, I think I was under that for most of the year. Yes, I have never been an honors student; I have never been good in school. School has never been my thing; I'm more of a street smarts guy that thinks it's really dumb that society nowadays will pretty much look right past you if you don't have a post-secondary degree of some sort.

So the first time I tried doing this University business, it failed miserably. Let's see if this time works out better. The thing I don't look forward to the most are the early mornings of epic proportions. I've never been a morning person, and neither have I ever been a night person. There's about a two or three hour span in the day where I am wide awake. The rest of them, well, I'm usually either asleep or almost there. Another thing that may raise concern is that, since I've been out of school for over a year, how am I going to be able to pick it up again? I know that not a whole lot of people my age can say that they've had any extended time of being out of school. Another thing is that I will never have needed to waste so much time of my life spending it inside  a bus of some sort. High school and the UofA usually meant around 45 minutes to an hour. This time, I'm pushing upwards of 2 hours from the door of my house to the school. It's quite bizarre.

Let's just hope that it doesn't take me too long to get back into the swing of things.