[quote author="SonsOfThunder"] The main thing I learned in school is that if you can stick it out, you can make it through almost anything!
HTH!
Charlie[/quote]
Agree. It's mostly an endurance test, especially if you have been doing essentially nothing but school for all of the time.
A friend remarked that if one is still interested in the subject by the time you get an advanced degree, especially a doctorate, then you are really beating the odds. Then, unless you have either played academic politics superbly well, or are just indisputably fookin' brilliant, you can go and get a programming job :razz:, or if you are a tireless self-promoter and even better of some intriguing ethnicity, dazzle venture capitalists and nouveau-illionaires and start a company, and see how much of other-people's-money you can squander.
Once you are out and get some real-world experience though, you may well come to appreciate some of the stuff you took courses in and remembered just long enough to pass. Then it may be time to go back to school with renewed motivation. Your focus will be better---hormones will have subsided somewhat, and now you know what the material is for. OTOH more than likely you've settled down and have a family and all of the attendant responsibilities, and will talk yourself out of the program as you come home at night and sink into the chair.
Education, like sex, is usually wasted on the young.