My sister graduates from college this year.  For a while, she’s been planning to finish her business degree and then go back to school for a nursing degree.  She decided too late in her college career to easily switch over, and her university doesn’t offer a nursing degree, so it made the most sense finish [...]

Growing up, my parents always told me this: “We don’t care what you decide you want to be, but you have to go to college. If you want to herd sheep, well, then you will be a college educated shepherd.”

(My standard response was that I wanted to be a ninja. To this day, I still [...]