Last night Ben received his second Master's, this one in Educational Administration. I am so proud! As I told him, "You've done more in your 36 years than I've done in my 61!"
I never finished my Bachelor's. After 2 years slogging away at the University of Arizona School of Architecture, I decided college just wasn't for me (and frankly coming out in the late 70s was such a distraction that my grades suffered immensely). I never regretted it, and if my lack of a degree stood in the way of advancing my career I was never aware of it, but I'm entering that stage in life where I do have regrets, and not sticking with my university studies is one of them.
Of course, if I had done that, my life would've taken a completely different path than it's on today, and I'm not sure that's a good thing…at all.
Congratulations, Ben. 🙂 As an older gay (47!) supporting a younger gay (36!) through grad school (PhD, in this case; I already have an honorary MS through proof reading papers for that degree), I'm 1,000% with you. 😀 Thank heavens they want to have degrees that are in this century (I am proud to say my formal schooling ended in the last century [1998]). *grin(*