You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?
I feel the question linger in my mind.
Even in my dreams I hear those same words,
Was it truly worth it?

This degree was not my true ambition.
It is merely a tool to forward me to my dream,
Opening up always expanding passages to new journeys.
The hard work may finally pay off.

College was not only for the degree,
The connections are essential.
Meeting lifelong friends,
Creating connections with professors.
That will stay with me forever.

I’m finally going home.
After what seems like an eternity of studying and completing assignments,
I can go home with experience and a degree.
But in the end, what is more important, the degree, or the family.
I know now, it’s family.

The question from my mother lingered as I arrived home,
“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?”
Money isn’t everything, I got the degree but at what cost.
Was it truly worth it?
Should I have stayed with my family?