I wake up in the morning after the alarm takes me away from my blissful ignorance of time. I stop the annoying noise coming from my morning alarm on my phone that has been counting down the time while I sleep. Looking at the time, school started half an hour ago. The bell has just rung, all the other students rush to their desks, the teachers start to speak. I lie in bed for a few minutes, my mind is groggy and my body resists the urge to start the day. My mind finally clears, wins the fight and regains command. The morning routine begins, I start as usual with a bowl of cereal and some cartoons. By the time I finished, school started a full hour before. I take out my laptop, sit down at the dining room table, and my homework begins. School at that time was something very different for me than it was for most others. My homework was given over the internet on a private site intended for cyber-education students. I had an allocated amount of work including: readings, essays, comprehension tests, discussion posts with other students, quizzes and exams. These tasks had daily suggestions to guide me as to when to complete them, but ultimately I was allowed to work at my own pace. One aspect of homeschooling that I enjoyed. Time was a resource at my disposal to accomplish the tasks imposed by deadlines. Most often, my work for the day was finished by 1 p.m. I didn't have to wait for other students to understand the reading, I was the only one who had to understand, I didn't have homework, all the work I did was at home and daily. Sometimes I would come to an assignment such as an essay or a midterm or final exam; I would have to work more than three o'clock in the afternoon, work... middle of paper... be responsible. Homeschooling is certainly not the only viable form of education to prepare for college and life. Michael Potts highly values ​​both his educational experience in a Christian home environment and the federal school system. He says, “Homeschooling helped me because I was with good people [who] raised me and public school came along right when I was. secure in my righteous ways, but I could see what the world was like. I believe my upbringing played an important role in defining my character, the valuable time I spent with my family, the ability to manage that time according to my plans, and a deep appreciation of free time that encourages me to use it wisely. I have come to value the time I spent learning at home, and to value time itself, life is short, time is precious, and how we spend that time defines who we are. where we are and where we are going..