Did you go to college?

Yes, and I earned one undergraduate and four graduate degrees.

Yes, two undergraduate degrees and one graduate degree.

Three semesters and one night course to get one semester worth of credits.

Yes.

I'm the same. I often say that I got burned out, dropped out, flunked out.

My degrees are all in philosophy and music theory/composition.

It's easier if you really love it, and I've loved it since I was a kid.  I first stumbled upon academic philosophy books kind of by accident when I was eleven years old.  I got excited when I discovered that stuff, because I realized that it was basically how I was already thinking about things--that sort of analysis, critical thought, etc.  I just didn't know until then that it was a "thing" that had a name.  So then I started to read tons of philosophy at that point.

I was also heavily into music already--I started taking private music lessons right after I turned six, and a few years later I was taking private music lessons on two instruments at the same time. 

So when I went to university, I had some conflict over whether I should major in music or philosophy (or something more practical that I also enjoyed, mainly a few different fields in the sciences--astronomy/astrophysics, archaeology and a "national park ranger track" (geology, forestry, biology, environmental sciences, etc.) were my top choices for that).  I'd already had a lot of success with music going all the way back to elementary school--lots of opportunities, awards, and I was even allowed to get ahead of things a bit by taking music classes at a local college in conjunction with my last two years of high school), so I decided to do music first.  But I kept up my interest in philosophy just as much, as well as the sciences that I'm most interested in, and I focused my electives on those fields.  So when I finally went back to do graduate degrees in philosophy, too, it wasn't that difficult for me.  It just required a bit of extra work at first--some extra classes, etc.--to meet all of the formal prerequisites.  To me it always seemed like fun, though, because that was the sort of stuff I liked doing anyway.

Best 7 years of my life

I went to Harvard



































...on a bus tour of Boston and Cambridge!

And also furthered my education...elsewhere.