Save Yourselves

Top Ten Reasons To Finish College While Still Young Instead Of Coming Back At 40:

10.  Odds are you won't be older than your professor....your advisor....all the kids in your class.

9.  Your distractions can be summed up by your social life instead of by housework and kids.

8.  Your jokes will be understood by your classmates instead of you having to explain things like what "Wang Chung" is or who Alex P. Keaton is.

7.  You won't be frustrated or annoyed by stupid questions from your classmates....because they probably won't seem stupid.  (i.e., "So, how many questions will there be and how many can I miss and still pass?")

6.  Your body-chemicals are still functioning normally and walking across a campus in the heat and humidity in order to get to your next class on time doesn't leave you heaving and sweating profusely by the time you enter the classroom.

5.  You will understand all technology without batting an eye....instead of having to enlist the help of your 8-year-old to navigate the school website.

4.  Bad grades roll off your back instead of plaguing you into the night.

3.  Your thoughts range as far as the next hour instead of having to plan and organize a month in advance so your kids have meals, your husband has clean clothes, the house isn't disgusting and you have five minutes here and there to work on school-work.

2.  Your dreams are still in their first phase...instead of the third phase, which is "Okay, I'm never going to be that so I need to concentrate on this."

1.  The number one reason you should stay in college while you're young instead of trying to muddle through as a middle-aged adult is this... You're able to start over multiple times, change your major, try different things, without the loud ticking of a clock in your head.  You have forever ahead of you.  Everything is possible.