Risks, Rewards, and The Personal Pursuit of a Higher Education Life itself is a creative process. Each day, we each are given the same amount of time. Twenty-four hours. And we are given an enormous amount of things to choose from in which we can fill-up those twenty-four hours. The choices we make will always involve a certain amount of risk. I’ll use my recently life exploration as an example. I’m forty-four years old. I had been taking classes for the last two years in the evening at Harold Washington College while working a full-time job during the day time. My job consumed eight hours of the allotted 24 hours that is given to all of us. This doesn’t include the two hours it took to commute to and from home each … Read entire article »