I found these two articles inspiring. http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/09/26/first.to.college.ap/index.html http://www.msnbc.com/local/PISEA/140779.asp?0LA=akc9n&cp1=1 We don't have to let obstacles, challenges, and shortcomings in life prevent us from going after our dreams.
Thanks. Amid the crap and blather of exploitative less-than-wonderfulness, it really makes you stop and think, and stop and thank, when you read stories like these.
Agree totally with uncle janko. Hey, if DegreeInfo is ever restructured, how about a place to post inspirational stories, ranging from the ones we get here (Ike: "I completed my doctorate") to ones like SFR posted. I could retell the story of the 96-year-old man who came to me for advice on where to complete the Ph.D. that he had started 75 years earlier, but Columbia threw him out . . . and how he finished it at 99. John Bear, whose degrees are from those two great football powers, Berkeley and Michigan State
