Going for my degree!

Published by Kevin Durant in Blog on February 6th, 2010 | Comments

What’s going on everyone? Well, we’re back on the road again with two more games to go before the All-Star break, although it won’t be much of a break for me and you know I wouldn’t have it any other way.

So the last time I blogged I had just gotten back from watching my Longhorns beat OSU in Stillwater, and you know it really had me thinking about my year at Texas and how I’ve been going back to school every summer since I left for the NBA. There’s just something about college that keeps me going back.

First off, I love the environment of a school setting, especially in college. I went to a small high school and graduated with 30 people at Montrose Christian. There were just 100 people in the whole school. It was small and I liked it. We never had a football team, never had a baseball team, so at Texas I got to see other sports, I went to every football game and got to see people that I normally wouldn’t see every day.

So these last two summers have been cool just to be back in a school setting first of all, and getting my degree is something I’ve always wanted to do. Nobody in my family has ever done it. My brother is the closest and that’s one thing I want to do. My mom wants me to do it so I’ve got to fulfill my mom’s dreams. It’s also just cool to get back down there and see the guys and workout with them as well.

I’m going for a degree in education and I usually take about two classes each summer. I’ve moved up every year and have thought about maybe staying the whole summer to take four classes, two in the first session and two in the second session but we’ll see how that goes. I have a long way to go but hopefully all I have is time.

I actually have to start thinking about what classes I’ll be taking soon. Last year I picked them out during the season. I just talk to my academic advisor that helped me out when I was there. She does a great job of getting classes ready for me. Sometimes I do it right before I go down there. I just have to go online and register. It’s been cool because she’s been helping me pick out some good classes.

And whenever I go back to school I always stay at Justin Mason’s apartment. He’s on the basketball team and has an apartment off campus. Staying at a hotel would have been a waste of money and not the smartest thing to do. And plus we’ve had some fun times, like we were roommates again because we were roommates my freshman year. We were basically suitemates, so we just shared a bathroom. You never get too big time to sleep on a couch or a floor or even an air mattress, so that’s how I looked at it. I actually had two air mattresses and put them together. You might not believe me but it was pretty comfortable. It was something different but it was all worth it.

I just treat it like I was a college student. I go to class with everyone. I go to study hall with everyone. No one treats me like, ‘oh, that’s KD he plays in the NBA.’ I just go about my business and try to finish school.

And no, I don’t cook when I’m back at college. I go out to eat every night!

Well, that brought back some college memories. How about you guys? You all still in college, going back or already graduated? And did everyone have a good living experience? Hit me up in my comments section.

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