Back To School: 61-Year-Old Is College Bound
Vanessa Butler has been out of school for more than 40 years, but this fall she's heading back for a college education. KOMU's Matt McCabe reports.
(NBC News) — Vanessa Butler has been out of school for more than 40 years.
Come next fall, she will be a college student.
She applied to Columbia College after “becoming bored” during the pandemic. The decision was an overdue favor to herself.
“So now that I am stable, and grounded, it is time for me to do the things I should have done,” she says.
Butler says COVID-19 pandemic played a big part in her decision.
“The pandemic made me feel like I was getting old,” Butler explains. “So therefore, I needed something to make me feel alive and lively again, because sitting around and just going from the kitchen to the bed to the bathroom to the TV — that was getting old.”
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