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[Cassidy]

40. Have you considered your local community college?

Congrats on successfully navigating the SSDI process.

I would strongly recommend you check out the offerings of your local community college(s). Community colleges offer many of the advantages of 4-year colleges or universities such as personal contact with instructors and fellow classmates, but they are also designed with part-time students in mind. That means that there are more evening classes and your instructors are accustomed to "non-traditional" students in the classroom. It also means that your fellow students are more likely to be non-traditional and motivated by the desire to learn or better themselves, not just because their parents told them they had to go and all their friends were doing it.

Community colleges are also a much better value for the money than either universities or on-line programs. I think on-line courses have their place, but the quality can be really variable and it is always tougher to do something with little or no support. It is also much more likely that classes you take at the community college will be transferable to another place and program. Transferring on-line credits can be very problematic.

Whatever you choose, I wish you good luck. I am in my early 50s and am completing a Master's program, so it can be done!