[nabs-l] re college classes vs high school classes

[dstrick1 at roadrunner.com]

I believe your past successes and failures are what you make of them; you cannot blame your failures on anyone but yourself. They are the decisions that you made as an adult. If you do not learn from them you are doomed to repeat them. You repeatedly speak of goals but are doing nothing to further these ideas. On paper something may look good but if nothing is done to put the idea into action it is still time wasted. I grew up in a small town, I went to college in a small town and now I live outside of Los Angeles and am getting my doctorate. It was something that I wanted and I made it happen. My parents are not to blame for my decisions. I am solely responsible for them. You have had many opportunities that you have not taken advantage of over the past several years. You are going to school online. Why not join the work force doing something because if you think there are not people out there with the same degree and more experience looking for a job you are fooling yourself. There are thousands of people who have experience and cannot find work. Just because you get the degree does not guarantee you a job. What are you going to say when the interviewer asks you about work experience and you are 30 years-old? Also, you are saying you wish you went to college in a large city. Well, did you ever think that if you did that you would not have a wife or child? The past is the past, but I know the area in which you live and there are a lot more opportunities there then you lead people to believe. So, in closing I say strap on your boots and start forging your way through the sea of life!
---- Josh Kennedy <jkenn337 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> Personally I cannot wait to graduate from college. When I went to 
> college I spent much time at the Neumann center at least I think that's 
> how it's spelled. Anyway its the place on campus for people who are 
> catholic. Actually looking back on it I wish I had gone to a college in 
> Pittsburgh or Baltimore Maryland. I would have had access to good public 
> transportation. Seems like so far in my life I grow up in a small town, 
> go to college in a small town. get married move to another even smaller 
> town. Then move to a town that in my opinion is pretending to be a city 
> where nothing happens anyway. I don't care if it takes me 20 years I'm 
> getting my degree from cappella. And then if it takes me another 20 years 
> to get a good paying 40 a year job well fine then. I attribute my 
> current and past failures to growing up in a small town. When my mom 
> realized she had a disabled child she should have moved us to Baltimore 
> or Philadelphia at least in my opinion. then I would have had a better 
> opportunity. I may be wrong about this completely but I think that blind 
> people who grow up in farely large cities have more opportunities from 
> the get go versus those who grow up in small towns. Grant-it my parents 
> did the best they could. I got to go to Costa Rica, Florida, bism, and 
> one or two other places. But the rest of the time I was living a in  a 
> small very small town. As a child it was fine maybe up through 8 or so 
> years old. But after that it became so very boring nearly ever day I 
> wished I lived somewhere else, anywhere else. in some place where 
> something was happening. If I were my mom and I was raising me I would 
> have given up the little safety zone of my small quiet town in the 
> middle of nowhere and moved to a big city not for my own comfort but to 
> give my child every opportunity to succeed I possibly could.
> Another thing I don't get with sighted people is again lets take my mom 
> for example. she drives 1 and a half hours to work each day. so that's 3 
> hours of driving each day. 15 hours a week and 60 hours a month. that's 
> about 3000 hours per year just driving back and forth to work. Now if we 
> would have moved closer to where he worked. as in if we had lived in the 
> same city then she could have spend thousands more hours with me. So 
> part of my moving out getting married having a child means also that I 
> have to not only take care of my family, I also have to correct my 
> parents failures and the failures of the educational system. Oh it'll 
> happen, slowly but surely it will happen I will correct ehrie their 
> gheir failures.
> 
> Josh
> 
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