Actually, I was spending time taking care of my sick mother who was dying of cancer.
Btw, where did you graduate? CSUDH?
“assuming” you have done what you say, then of course it is admirable to devote so much time and effort to helping to care for a seriously ill or dying family member....
“assuming” that is really the explanation for taking 8-9 years to do a 4-yr degree
btw, I have plenty of admiration for ppl who complete college while working full-time or nearly so, and/or attending to important family needs such as a seriously ill family member, going far above and beyond the usual 18-21 y.o. college life of debauchery..... IF you really fall more into the former category then hats off to you..... otoh, it would be especially despicable to utilize someone else’s illness as an excuse for one’s own weaknesses? But let us assume that is not the case here, even if we have only your “online word” for it..... that in effect you devoted 4-5+ years of your young adult life almost exclusively to caring for your sick and dying mother. That would be most admirable.
However, as (lucky) cancer survivor here, I have known a good number of patients and families, cancer survivors and many so sadly departed, and it would be more than a bit unusual to find a young 20-something who spent 4+ yrs full-time caring for and/or working to support a cancer patient.... but maybe you are one of those remarkable cases.... b/c I sure hope that you are not resorting to the frequently used liberal “pity party” trick of pulling on heart strings whether or not it’s relevant to the issue that was being discussed.
btw, while your snotty reference to CSUDH indicates that you have some big chip on your shoulder about having a Berkeley diploma, maybe some day you will learn to judge people for their character and accomplishments rather than by what degree they may or may not list on their C.V. Since you ask, my graduate degree is from HAHvaaahd (with very high honors and awards), where I put up with enough vapid liberal twits to last a lifetime..... and it’s something I NEVER mention unless someone brings it up, partly b/c I came to detest the place and also b/c it’s not relevant to judging a person’s worth & accomplishments..... but I’d far rather have my degree from CSUDH, or no degree at all, than to be the kind of person who sneers at every CSUDH....
.... oh, and I’d rather not be more like a lot of the clowns who are running and attending the Ivies and Stanford and our so-called “elite” institutions of learning, etc. Oh, I suppose we can allow Berkeley to appear somewhere on that list..... maybe a bit above CSUDH.
I know it may be hard for someone like you (worshiping the Berkeley diploma and sneering at CSUDH) to understand, but I had a huge range of options open to me in the snooty circles you frequent, and I turned my back on it to live and work with many far more *real* and decent people..... some with degrees, some without.... and plenty of the best ppl I know never took a college class....... so I suppose they may even be well below CSUDH on your scale of respect. That’s another reason I decided not to spend too much more of my life around ppl like you.