I graduate high school this year, and I cannot wait to get out of this isolated little town I live in and go to college, my brother loves it and I'm sure that I will. I have a friend in the Marines who joined his senior year and went in right after graduation, he still has about a year left in the Marines until his 4 years are up, and after that, he's gonna go to the college his dad teaches at, he was so gung-ho about the Marines and now he can't wait to get out and go to college. I respect you a lot for going to college at 25, almost everyone I know who were going to "Take a year off" never went back, and that's really cool that you did actually go back.
