An eND in sIGht (eXtreMely DisTant, buT theRe No LesS..)

up until this past week, i had just about given up the hope of ever being done with school. and im not talking school as in some people out there who just keep going because they love it and after 20 years of higher education they have like 8 doctorate degrees and still yearn to go back to whole the educational scene. no, i mean i'd relinquished all hope of simply earning my undergrad in less then two decades. it just wasnt working out for me to advance school-wise in any kind of timely manner. so i made the choice to accept that and as every new semester rolled around i tried to make the best of the fact that i didnt seem to be getting anywhere. so then, a couple of nights ago, i was doing my registration for next semester's classes. as i checked off the newest set of classes on my little "degree plan" i realized that im halfway done with my undergraduate courseload. this was monumental to me. even though it seems like ive been in and out of school for ever, in reality because this is my 3rd (yes, 3rd...) college, ive lost credits trying to transfer them, and then ive had moments of stupidity where ive dropped classes (once i dropped 4 of them at once after being 2/3 of the way done with them) here and there and then with this whole distance learning program ive been in, they've had extensions(which they have now done away with, thank goodness...) that i've purchased which add an extra 2 months to each semester and yadiyadi ya..the point being, progression has been slow. very slow. i kick myself everytime i hear "so and so just graduated from Georgia State" and realize that they used to be people i babysat (well, not really, but it seems like that sometimes, and it wont be long, im sure before that starts happening). i know it could be worse, i could be 50 doing this, but most days i felt as though id still be doing this at 50. so, anyways, im halfway there, and because i like to try and be a glass half full type of person, im siked! who cares that im going to need a master's to do anything productive with a psych degree, at least i can see light at the end of this long, long tunnel that houses my educational career.