Best laid plans and all. The intent was to go to grad school at SCAD here in Atlanta. I was thinking I would write, grow myself as a writer, and with MFA in hand, go teach when I'm done working as a software developer. Ha! Joke's on me.
I made it to midterms at SCAD and then life intervened. Or rather, everything that could go wrong did. There was a change in CTO where I work. Lots of meetings ensued as we all scrambled to figure out what this meant for our teams. I had to work a couple late nights. Not a lot of after hours work, mind you, but SCAD has a strict attendance policy. Those couple of after-hours nights combined with a week I needed to miss due to an on-site event for my team, and in the end, I had to withdraw. My time at SCAD, for this quarter at least, is done.
There are options that would enable me to keep at it. I could take online classes, but much of the appeal for me, beyond the degree and where it could lead, was the in-person classes. I work online all day for my day job. The thought of doing that in the evenings for school seems not fun. I could try again and take a lighter load. That's an option, too. I've got some figuring things out to do.