Let me be honest, my decision to go back to college grew more out of spite and sloth than a desire for personal fulfillment. I had recently quit my low paying go nowhere job and was receiving unemployment. As an added bonus from NJ state taxpayers, I qualified for an additional benefit called Tuition Reimbursement; a social program so progressive it would make FDR jump for joy.
If you were unemployed, you were excused from seeking re-employment if you attended college classes full time. Since I was fully prepared to take the summer off, I wanted to appear as if I were busy. Plus, I also enjoy being an egghead, as much I have the capacity to anyway, so my general lack of ambition and state bureaucracy got married and had a baby in my brain.
