Time

[quasigeostrophy]

On the way back from the dentist this morning (it’s almost a 90-minute drive, so plenty of thinky time) I was thinking about turning 46 next Wednesday while still being in school.  I wondered if I had been in school for half of all that.  So I did a little arithmetic:

• 12 years primary & secondary school at Warren Township Schools in Indianapolis, first through twelfth grades, 1972 – 1984.
• 5 years at Purdue in West Lafayette and IUPUI in Indy resulting in a B.A. in Liberal Arts (Communication) from IU, 1984 – 1989.
• 1 year at Ball State in Muncie for an M.S. in Information and Communication Science, 1990 – 1991.
• 0.5 years at IUPUI as make-up/prep for returning to Purdue in 2006.
• 3 years at Purdue for an M.S. in Atmospheric Science, 2006 – 2009.
• 2.5 years and counting at Purdue for a Ph.D. in progress, 2009 – ? (targeting a finish date of December 2012).

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24 years of school.  Yep.  Just over half my life.  Is it any wonder I’m getting antsy to be finished?

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