To my younger self

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by Indera Walters1 view·Updated Mar 10, 2021
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  1. Hi. So I'm so excited about this opportunity to talk
  2. with you today.
  3. Um, so I am here to share with you, Um,
  4. my journey in college.
  5. So I actually started college at the age of 40
  6. five. Wow.
  7. 45. And it was something that I always wanted to
  8. do. Like to 14.
  9. My education.
  10. Um, but I never did get that opportunity.
  11. So So when I left high school, um, I came
  12. to Canada not too long after that.
  13. And then, um, I started a family, so I had
  14. kids and, you know, marriage and all that stuff.
  15. And, um, good stuff.
  16. Um, So I have two Children them, and they're now,
  17. uh, so 1919 and 21.
  18. So yeah.
  19. So figure maybe in 45 starting college.
  20. Um, it was pretty scary for me.
  21. Very scary.
  22. While I was excited, I was so anxious, I didn't
  23. know what to expect.
  24. And so so, yeah, it was a nerve working thing
  25. for me.
  26. And so the first day of college came, um, actually
  27. oh, that's another story.
  28. So, um, status college about the second and 33rd weekend,
  29. too to college because there's some issues that I was
  30. having, but, um, I started and, um, I was pretty
  31. exciting. And now I'm at this journey at this part
  32. in my life Where, um mm.
  33. We're I am almost to graduate.
  34. Um, it's been 2.5 years, and I am almost at
  35. the finish line of this journey, and and so, um,
  36. with no, we were in a pandemic right now, and,
  37. um, there's been so many restrictions and everything.
  38. Um, the city shut down and schools have shut down,
  39. and, um, it's just a really trying time.
  40. And so schools went online, right?
  41. And so the door clothes, everything has increased while it's
  42. such a an opportune time to learn.
  43. Okay, Now you have to challenge yourself and just get
  44. into, you know, some unknown territories and things that you,
  45. um, hunting that you may not have known if it
  46. wasn't this era.
  47. Right? So, um, but my excitement in talking to you
  48. is to really just give you some heads up.
  49. Some of the things that I would have done in
  50. my lifetime, um, starting college, I was you know, I
  51. don't think I'm I know how to get organized, so
  52. I struggle with, um, just organization, I guess.
  53. And, um Mm.
  54. Just the expectation of school.
  55. Um, I think I was way over my head.
  56. Um, you know, I left.
  57. I left high school at 20.
  58. Oh, this is