So here I am today, a wildly successful scholar, ten years after graduating high school: I’m a stay-at-home mom who struggles to manage the home with only one kid. I write a blog with just over a hundred fans on Facebook and make exactly zero dollars a year. I’m proud of my accomplishment – really, I am – and I adore my chosen vocation as a mother and homemaker. But it’s hardly the illustrious career my teachers would have predicted. I sometimes wonder if – on a practical level alone – some of those years writing essays wouldn’t have been better spent doing something a little more . . .useful.