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What are you doing here?
Isn't that the million dollar question?
But let's get a little less existential for the moment. What are you doing here on this website?
Well, you were probably linked here from some other site, maybe referred by a friend or favorite blogger.
Why? What were you doing there? What ideas were you reading, perusing, challenging, creating while working through that website, and the one before it? Now tell me: what are you doing here?
You must have expectations. The first expectation is that I'm going to give you some kind of answer or clarification to the question above.
I'm not.
Only you can figure that out. Maybe you already know; maybe you never will know. Maybe you've had people telling you all your life and you couldn't help but feel as though there was a grain of falsehood in all the supposed truths. Maybe you've had nobody giving you any direction whatsoever, and you have been wandering down this path for a long, long time. What are you doing here? I don't know. Your parents don't know. Your siblings don't know. Your counselor doesn't know. Your significant other doesn't know. You, and only you, can answer that question.
The second expectation is that, well, if I am asking the question, then I am prepared to offer help.
You would be partially correct.
The question of what you're doing here is a broad one, one that can take an entire lifetime to figure out, and I am just one person here on the Internet. I am not a life coach; I never will be. I am not a personal counselor; I never will be. I am not a wisewoman nor religious adherent, and I never will be. What I am is someone who has been asking questions for as long as I can remember, and if you're ready to ask questions with me, then I can offer help.
In the past few years of my life, I have found myself to be unhappy, dissatisfied, stuck. I was stuck in this mess of I'm-supposed-to-be-in-college-but-am-I-really-supposed-to-be-here? If it were not for the scholarship I have received and the friends I have made, I would have hightailed it after freshman year. As it is, I have completed three years and am currently in a gap year before heading back as a senior, and I still don't know if I'm supposed to be there. I'll wager you are stuck too. Perhaps you are a current college student who feels as though you're a fish out of water. Maybe you are a high school student who is trying to decide whether college is the correct path. Maybe you have been out of high school for a couple of years and you're still floundering around, wondering what to do. You're stuck. I'm here to help get you unstuck. Keep in mind, I can't make you. I can only give you the resources and encouragement to do so. These are decisions you MUST make yourself. What are you doing here?
The third expectation is for me to tell you what I am doing here.
I am here because I want to reach out to others like me and completely unlike me. I have been through many of the more well-known Uncollege and Unschooling educational sites and blogs, checked out P2PU and Coursera, designed my own education plan, planned for X, Y, and Z. And I failed. I had all of these expectations about how things should be happening, and those expectations stifled how I naturally do things, leading me to to drop my own goals and sit back to re-evaluate what I was doing and how I was doing it. It's been a long time coming, but I think I've figured it out. That, my friends, is a wonderful feeling, and I want to help you figure it out, to become unstuck, to reach whatever potential you have set for yourself and truck on through.
For those who are old pros as self-directed learning, you will probably find my resources to be your biggest help. I will try to keep an updated list on the most relevant sites, projects, articles, books, blogs, and more. If you find that I am missing something, please contact me and I will get it fixed pronto.
For those who are discouraged, who were never unschooled or even homeschooled, who have struggled particularly with finances -- perhaps even to the point where you started considering alternative options to college -- who are just not sure where to begin or need a tad more structure in the beginning to figure out why exactly it is you are here and where you will go from here, I am here for you. I am here to help you find the path that is right for you, give you guidance and some semblance of structure, and hopefully figure out how to get where I'm going too.
But let's get a little less existential for the moment. What are you doing here on this website?
Well, you were probably linked here from some other site, maybe referred by a friend or favorite blogger.
Why? What were you doing there? What ideas were you reading, perusing, challenging, creating while working through that website, and the one before it? Now tell me: what are you doing here?
You must have expectations. The first expectation is that I'm going to give you some kind of answer or clarification to the question above.
I'm not.
Only you can figure that out. Maybe you already know; maybe you never will know. Maybe you've had people telling you all your life and you couldn't help but feel as though there was a grain of falsehood in all the supposed truths. Maybe you've had nobody giving you any direction whatsoever, and you have been wandering down this path for a long, long time. What are you doing here? I don't know. Your parents don't know. Your siblings don't know. Your counselor doesn't know. Your significant other doesn't know. You, and only you, can answer that question.
The second expectation is that, well, if I am asking the question, then I am prepared to offer help.
You would be partially correct.
The question of what you're doing here is a broad one, one that can take an entire lifetime to figure out, and I am just one person here on the Internet. I am not a life coach; I never will be. I am not a personal counselor; I never will be. I am not a wisewoman nor religious adherent, and I never will be. What I am is someone who has been asking questions for as long as I can remember, and if you're ready to ask questions with me, then I can offer help.
In the past few years of my life, I have found myself to be unhappy, dissatisfied, stuck. I was stuck in this mess of I'm-supposed-to-be-in-college-but-am-I-really-supposed-to-be-here? If it were not for the scholarship I have received and the friends I have made, I would have hightailed it after freshman year. As it is, I have completed three years and am currently in a gap year before heading back as a senior, and I still don't know if I'm supposed to be there. I'll wager you are stuck too. Perhaps you are a current college student who feels as though you're a fish out of water. Maybe you are a high school student who is trying to decide whether college is the correct path. Maybe you have been out of high school for a couple of years and you're still floundering around, wondering what to do. You're stuck. I'm here to help get you unstuck. Keep in mind, I can't make you. I can only give you the resources and encouragement to do so. These are decisions you MUST make yourself. What are you doing here?
The third expectation is for me to tell you what I am doing here.
I am here because I want to reach out to others like me and completely unlike me. I have been through many of the more well-known Uncollege and Unschooling educational sites and blogs, checked out P2PU and Coursera, designed my own education plan, planned for X, Y, and Z. And I failed. I had all of these expectations about how things should be happening, and those expectations stifled how I naturally do things, leading me to to drop my own goals and sit back to re-evaluate what I was doing and how I was doing it. It's been a long time coming, but I think I've figured it out. That, my friends, is a wonderful feeling, and I want to help you figure it out, to become unstuck, to reach whatever potential you have set for yourself and truck on through.
For those who are old pros as self-directed learning, you will probably find my resources to be your biggest help. I will try to keep an updated list on the most relevant sites, projects, articles, books, blogs, and more. If you find that I am missing something, please contact me and I will get it fixed pronto.
For those who are discouraged, who were never unschooled or even homeschooled, who have struggled particularly with finances -- perhaps even to the point where you started considering alternative options to college -- who are just not sure where to begin or need a tad more structure in the beginning to figure out why exactly it is you are here and where you will go from here, I am here for you. I am here to help you find the path that is right for you, give you guidance and some semblance of structure, and hopefully figure out how to get where I'm going too.