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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
