Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):
Don't give up and don't lose your passion! I dropped out of college my first go-round. It took me five years to get back and while the jobs I worked weren't anywhere near the field I wanted to be in I still had free time, some of which I used to identify plants. Without that desire to know more about the world around me, who knows where I would be? Now that I'm in school there are times when it's overwhelming but I can still return to simple observation and remind myself what set me on the path here in the first place.