Traveling While In University: Intro

I took the long way to getting a Bachelors degree. I decided to start university at 17, and managed to not graduate until I was 24. While the road seemed forever uphill, I did not worry.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese proverb

To start, I never was a big fan of secondary school. Ditching school to do anything but be in class. I enjoyed learning, just not school . The same applied for university. Going to college was always just part of my life, it was never my whole life. This inevitably is most likely one of the reasons it took me so long to get through University.

When I turned 18 I had already been full swing in planning to travel the world as soon as I could. As soon as I could turned out to be the fall of 2014. By the end of summer 2014 I had been in community college for three semesters and had accumulated a whopping 16 units. I couldn’t stop attending college to travel, and I was never going to put off living my life to go to college.

The solution I came up with was to take a class online. I found a few interesting classes and mailed professors to ensure there wouldn’t be any issues with me taking the class from another continent. All but one professor told me to pound sand. so I ended up registering for an online Introduction to Art class that had a really nice professor who was a really fair grader. The class was all about art appreciation and understanding art, not about creating art. The textbook was available online, too. Perfect.

I must admit, this wasn’t some genius idea that came to me in a dream or anything. I actually had some online classes in the summer of 2014. During the summer of 2014 I took two online classes and ended up going to visit my family in Seattle for a few weeks during the summer session. Without knowing it, Seattle was a dry run of what was to come.