Hey comrades, I’m thinking about getting a degree. About 7-8 months ago I made a post asking about the process of obtaining citizenship in China and I was met with the expected response that I should continue my education if I wished to stay there long-term. Initially I dismissed the advice and just put away the idea of living in China long-term, but in the past few months I think I’ve come around to continuing my education.

This is a big deal for me, I dropped out of highschool when I was 18 and just two years from graduation because the school I was going to would shut down and I couldn’t stomach starting over again at a new school in the middle of the George Floyd Riots and the COVID-19 Pandemic. I eventually tried to finish my highschool diploma but when the school went under a bunch of my credits just vanished into thin air and I was looking at another 3½ years of highschool so I gave up again.

Now I’m 23 and with the support of my comrades on the commune I am finally feeling confident about picking up my schooling again, I’m planning on biting the bullet on the GED (which I should have done in the first place instead of going for the highschool diploma) and applying for college.

I’m looking at mycology, I’ve had an interest in it since I was 18 and I love microscopic organisms. Fungi are extremely interesting to me and I’d love to learn more about them in ways that are not from the pervasive pop-science or spiritual/psychedelic angles that dominate in the West.

I just wanted to share this with others, I’m excited and I’ve already started crawling through my old textbooks!