Thanks for your encouraging comments!

You asked about my educational background, and it turns out that, because of the tremendous flexibility of homeschooling, whether I was homeschooled “through 12th grade” is a difficult question to answer, actually. The easy way to say it is that I was homeschooled until I started college. But that was sort of after eighth or ninth grade, depending on how you look at it. There’s so much redundancy between high school and college these days that I mostly skipped high school. I started taking non-credit community college classes at 14, and credit courses at 15. The only subject I didn’t “skip” the high school level courses on was math. I took what were supposed to be “refresher” courses for adults who had been out of school for years. They weren’t “refreshers” for me, of course, since it was the first time I had seen most of it, but it worked out quite nicely, and being in classes with mature adults (instead of immature, partying college students) made for a nice transition into the college world, especially for someone as young as I was. I didn’t go full time until I was 18, when I enrolled in a degree program. After I graduated from community college, I transferred to Stanford and finished my bachelor’s after two more years.

I would be very hesitant to recommend this path to everyone (just because there is SO MUCH TRASH going on in secular universities), but it did work out quite well for someone with my personality.

I just became familiar with your blog today after reading your article at At The Well. I thought it was great as well. I could totally relate! I have so many thoughts going through my head after reading your post(man! I wish I could call you on the phone…lol!)

I read your “About Me” section and it says you are a homeschool graduate and that you went to Stanford? Were you homeschooled through 12th grade?