I’ve been getting carried away with the length of the blog entries lately so I’ll keep this one short in honor of the holiday.

I was doing some research for a client recently, which had me checking out Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. They have a great value proposition:  

• Noted for an intellectual student body
• Able to draw speakers such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher
• They encourage their students to participate in as many things as possible so they can experience everything the university and the world has to offer. 
• You can even combine your diverse interests into a unique major.

And in quite the Kate fashion they had this really cool tradition where freshman arrive on campus by walking through “ The Columns”.  Tradition prevents you (just like Benedictine’s senior stairs) from walking through the columns again until graduation. Isn’t that the perfect mixture of old and new?  I started daydreaming about what it would be like to go back to school.

When I went to college, Villanova University, I was so focused on getting good grades that I don’t think I really had an ideal experience. I loved it there but I chose classes mostly based on my ability to get an A in the class. At almost 50, it’s the learning that gets me excited now, not the grades (of course no one is really grading me!) I wonder what it would be like to go back to school just for the thrill of learning without the stress of grades, getting into the best graduate program or getting the best job. So here’s my question: If you could go back to school today what would you study and why?