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A Midlifer’s Guide to College: Why Go Back to School?

For over a year, I ran the idea of going back to school past friends. It would take me eight years if I went part-time. By the time I earned my BA I’d be 51 years old, I’d accrue years of debt and there’d be no guarantee on the other side of finding a job I loved that paid well. “You don’t need it,” they’d say. “You’re already in the industry.” 

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  • Voices & Views: Andrew YacoubVoices & Views: Andrew Yacoub
    By Shawna Takaki | Staff Writer Andrew Yacoub is a 27-year-old student who graduated with an associate’s degree in Business from Kapi’olani Community College last Friday at Commencement. He was accepted into the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa and plans to get a bachelor’s degree in the future. He has […]

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