Despite her youthful looks and the not infrequent assumption she is the same age as her younger peers at Chesapeake College, Easton native Kristyn Simpkins waited for twenty years after high school to begin higher education. In between, she had a successful massage therapy practice in Baltimore but eventually returned to the Eastern Shore to provide care for her father after a severe heart attack. She also spent several years recovering from her own serious accident that required years of surgery.
But two years ago, her mother pushed her to go back to school at the ripe age of 36 years old. She enrolled in Chesapeake College’s Liberal Arts and Sciences program and very shortly became part of its highly regarded Honors Program. Two years later, she has become the most successful honors scholar in the history of the College.
As Kristyn awaits word from the University of Pennsylvania’s about her recent application to start a baccalaureate degree program (she has already been accepted at Salisbury University), she sat down with Professor David Harp, who has directed Chesapeake’s Honors program, to talk about the special way in which non-traditional students like Kristyn can thrive and be motivated to complete their work at some of the most academically challenging schools in the country at half the price of a four year experience.
For more information about Chesapeake College’s Liberal Arts degree programs go here
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MARY WOOD says
Good for you Krystin. I did the same thing at Washington College,graduating in 1968. Hard work and challenging. New ideas,new friends.