As someone who was thankfully able to finish high school (though, being from rural Ontario, every school I attended in my home town was closed shortly after I a

As someone who was thankfully able to finish high school (though, being from rural Ontario, every school I attended in my home town was closed shortly after I attended), but wasn’t able to finish my degree in English, Linguistics and other mixed studies due to financial woes— You’ve said it. I won’t go into details now, but there is something to be said for sincere passion and interest in what you do. I’ve worked with a not insignificant number of CS and digital photography students who by default think they’re above practical work and (insert more snobby stuff here). I’ve been responsible for reminding people why they started those degree programs in the first place. Not due to ranting like this, but due to [foolish] added work I put on myself that came out of sheer interest that has bloomed into something really worthwhile— sometimes unbeknownst to them at the outset. Don’t get me started on the application of science and the scientific method and [oh god, the] politics. There’s a lot of rambling I could do on this subject, and it’s too early on a Sunday to formulate my thoughts correctly. I do like the subject and I enjoy hearing from a variety of positions on it. I at the very least wish it was easier for kids to acquire higher education outside of the bindings of finances and legalism that have long been lord of institutions that claim that kind of authority.