Sunday, August 5, 2012

A Short Post on Nontraditional Education

Hi, guys! This school year, I've decided to do something much different than I've ever done before. I'm going to be focusing on (besides school, family, and friends) getting healthy, weightlifting, writing, volunteering, and networking.

After re-reading Michael Ellsberg's post on Tim Ferris's Four-Hour Work Week, I'm completely re-inspired to pursue nontraditional education, so I'll also be reading a lot and putting the things I'll learn into action. I'm going to borrow from the library or download as e-books (because I'm tired of accumulating things) books by bloggers that I follow that I'm very excited to read.

Especially in recent years, nontraditional education has piqued my interested, perhaps because I'm approaching college. Things outside of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to take classes you might never really learn things from and settling for a less-than-perfect job that doesn't require your level of education. I'd like to learn things through experiences and people and have a skill set that allows me to work in any field I want on whatever terms I want. I've never been a work-in-an-office kind of gal, so having the freedom to try new ventures and explore what I'd really like to do is increasingly awesome.

I know this post is kind of vague, but I find that, whenever I tell someone what I plan to do, I never actually do that thing.

Talk to you next week! Thanks for reading.


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