#this is work

What is this? College? Higher education? What a magical thing! Let me tell you a thing or twelve about this whole college application process: I have never wanted to smash my face into the desk so hard before. 3 June 2017 will be six years since I last set foot in a school house. Six years. Can you believe that? Four of those years were spent in the Army. You'd think that applying to college would be a heck of a lot easier with "real world" experience. Nope. Not. At. All. As it turns out, there's like three million additional steps for me to take. Like go through the VA for the Post 9/11 GI Bill...which takes up to three to five business days to be looked at by any VA regional center in the United States. Then there's submitting a copy of my DD Form 214 (basically a brief description of my military history), submitting my official JST transcripts (an in-depth look at every class, course and school I've done in the military), reapply for the Pell Grant, offer my soul to the admissions advisor and it's just a lot of work. Like...goodness. I need a nap. As I look through the pictures of the people I went to high school with, I see them getting their BSN, Masters, Bachelor's degrees for decades, and everything...I realize that I'm just now getting started on furthering my education. Now, I can ask my little sister on how to do something because she's done this whole deal.

My photo editing skills have never come in as clutch as they have in this moment....