Why I returned to School

In answering the question “why did I return to school” it is as important to explore my original departure from academic life as my return. Ultimately, the exit and return were greatly influenced by two life events – birth and death. At the end of the summer of 1988, as I was preparing to enter my junior year at Columbia University, while sleeping at home, a family friend woke me with the news that my mother, sleeping …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 790 total…remain on the same path and ignore the importance of this milestone or use the symbolism of my fortieth birthday to serve as an exclamation mark to a new chapter in life. Page 4. On August sixth of this year, my fortieth birthday, as a gift to myself and as a symbol of a new commitment to me and my family’s future, I registered at Dominican University to complete what was started so long ago.