Why’d you give it all up? — Question I’ve been asked several times.

I may not have been the smartest person at my university, nor was I the most motivated by any means. I spent more time hanging around the university bar than I did attending my lectures. What I did do is have profound conversations with people of different cohorts, pursuing different subjects of study, trying to figure out what their place in this world would be once we graduated. My peers already had that figured out, they knew what they wanted to be; The course of study that they were pursuing, their academic degree. My academic degree was never a symbol…...