Take me away.

          I have years until I can finally get to Europe. My Girl Scout peeps are coming with me, though. Yeah, it will be safe, economically sound, and an overall great trip... But, I won't get to have the freedom that I already posses; heck, I even use it on a day-to-day basis. Maybe that's a good thing.
           I can always go back at a later time. My uncertainty lies within the fact that I may not have the time nor the money to return (on another note, I won't even get to go to Ireland...).  Sometimes, I wish I could fast-forward to when I'm swimming in money and arguably more intelligent than Larry Plage / Sergey Brin - a.k.a. the founders of Google - combined. Hehe. But that won't happen unless I go go college, which won't happen unless I get more than two years of math in my HS diploma, which won't happen unless I either graduate early or UMN accepts me into their PSEO program. See this unfounded thinking process?
          Oh, yeah. PSEO. A long, long time ago (even though time technically cannot be measured by length, and the actual year of 1985 is arguably not that long ago), the state of Minnesota adopted the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act "...to promote rigorous academic pursuits and to provide a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling secondary pupils to enroll full time or part time in nonsectarian courses or programs in eligible postsecondary institutions~..."1 This headed way for a few other states (Ohio being the most notable with their fancy-schmancy PSEOP; in other states this may be known as Running Start or simply dual enrollment) to take Minnesota's example and set up their own state-funded college classes for underage students.
        ~An "eligible institution" being defined as a college (whether two or four years, public or private) located in Minnesota. Although the amount of classes you can take - as well as if the college actually participates in this - varies from college to college.
        PSEO is, basically, a program where any person in their junior or senior year (and, in some cases, sophomore year) can go to a college and take free classes there during the school year. If you're over the ripe old age of sixteen, you can pay to take classes a) beyond a full course load, predefined by your school of attendance or b) during the summer.

I can get so off topic sometimes.

Cheers.
Destiny.


Source:
1: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/getpub.php?pubtype=STAT_CHAP_SEC&year=current&section=124D.09