Thinking About Returning To College? Here's How To Start

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"Should I go back to college?" If you're asking yourself this question, here are tips to help you figure out how to do it — whether it's to change jobs, make more money or finish something you started.

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0:00.0	Do you remember a moment for you when you were like,
0:04.8	okay, I'm gonna go back?
0:07.1	Yes, I do, actually.
0:08.8	I felt like it was my birthday present.
0:11.1	Denise Whitaker's son had just gone off to college.
0:14.2	She was living in Philadelphia with her husband
0:16.4	and was doing administrative work at an office.
0:18.8	I had gotten a call one day at home
0:21.5	about going back to school.
0:23.7	Really? From who?
0:25.0	It was a recruiter.
0:27.7	But I felt like it was from the universe
0:34.0	because I had already had the thoughts in my mind.
0:37.7	I'm one of those people to think things happen
0:40.6	because they should at a certain time and one's life.
0:45.1	For Denise, returning to college,
0:47.1	it wasn't about making money or getting a new job.
0:50.0	Though she was excited about both of those things.
0:52.6	For her, it was personal.
0:54.5	I always did want to go back and complete.
0:58.7	About 30 years earlier,
1:00.4	fresh out of high school, she had started college.
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