As some of you might have seen in my Life Advice thread, I've recently had an identity crisis (or finally acknowledged it) about where exactly I am in life, or where I want to be. Basically the dilemma was this: 1) My only passion in life is aviation. 2) Even then, specifics beyond flying were sparse. 3) I feared what might happen to my life if I had to give up flying for whatever reason, because I have no other skills to fall back on (I'm trying things, thanks to MLP, but it's all on a fledgling level at this point).

Anyway, I've finally fully accepted and realized what I was put on this Earth to do: competitive aerobatics. However, still, how to proceed forward, and how to afford it, were an issue. I am at point A, I see point B, but I had no idea how to bridge the gap.

Until Air Transportation class today, and a student's presentation on aerobatics. He showed this video.

Ever since class, I've been watching it at least once an hour. I'm enraptured. It suddenly made everything so clear. I've finally found a place that has an aerobatic curriculum. And not only that, but they have ways of discounting tuition for Illinois residents, too, so money might not be as much of an issue.

Just like that, the pieces seem to be falling into place.

Now, just to figure out a way to transfer to UND...