You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
I didn't pass my driving test till I was 38!
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.
I didn't even start college until I was 21.
I was one of those late bloomers when it comes to motorcycles. I didn't get my motorcycle license until I was 25.
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.
When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
