Students will sometimes ask if it was worth it getting a doctorate. And I’m like, “What do you think? I get to do this! I get to read about things I find interesting and then I get to talk to people about that!”  

From my first day in college, 46 years ago, I loved college. I loved learning and finding new things and then getting to talk about it with classmates and professors.  

It took me a while to realize that it’s college that I really love, by which time I stumbled back to Highline and into a teaching career.