WHEN I graduated from our public high school last year near my place here in Kansas, I was really faced with a dilemma. My friends were contented in having odd jobs after graduation that summer. They made themselves available as crew for the local Dunkin’ Donuts outlet and they were making money and in fact enjoying it, running delivery errands in the neighborhood.

They were indeed enjoying it because they met many girls in the process with most of those girls ordering donuts by delivery. They had the time of their life last summer. Of course, graduating from high school was also a huge break for me. I got a car from my dad as a gift – a 1998 model sedan but that’s okay. After all, I have not passed the law or something.

I just graduated from high school. Then I began contemplating. Will I like be my friends who are satisfied with odd jobs? Is that for the time being only or will that be their job for life? I’m a little bit of worrier on those things. And it came to me that there’s no college in this remote town that I live. So if I’ll be moving to Topeka to get a college degree, that means I’ll be away from home. I’ll miss the family. Sure, it would be a great opportunity to be in a boarding college and to have new adventures but admit – I’m still not prepared. While browsing the Internet, I came across something about online education. And so I spent hours and hours on the Internet that day discerning on which online colleges are credible.
Momentarily, I chose the American Intercontinental University. It’s not like choosing it with a click. Choosing an online college is not a joke because your career here is at stake. If you end up in a bogus online college, your time and money is greatly wasted. Thus, I have to make sure that this online college is not a fake one. I explored every inch of their website and cross-referenced it to other websites like the Department of Education’s. They all checked out. This online college is good. Then I checked how much I’m gonna be paying for the semester and for the whole curriculum. Of course, I have a long distance friend from Hawaii who happens to be taking online courses in this college too and we chatted for almost 3 hours inquiring from him about his progress to the point of annoyance. He was taking up a degree in nursing because that’s the in thing in the United States today.

In fact, many immigrants here are taking up nursing during the evenings while working during the day. As a rural boy, I’m interested in taking up agriculture or forestry or something like that initially. To my dismay, it was not offered in American Intercontinental University.

Then I happened to glance that they are offering criminal justice and visual communication which happened to be my interests too. I chose to enroll in criminal justice because I want to be a lawyer someday. After all, I have dreams unlike those high school classmates who are still working at Dunkin Donuts as of this writing.