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 …

…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.