Beth Lyons

But I'll be 48 next week.

And so I say that to say that my mom has since passed, but both of my parents would be, my dad is in the 70s, but my parents would be.

So my mom never went to college.

She went to high school and went out working in Brooklyn.

That was what you did.

My dad didn't go to college.

He went to Navy Reserves and then TWA and then rose the ranks through aviation.

My dad got his college degree from Embry-Riddle while full-time at Delta Airlines while I was in college between 96 and 2000.

I don't remember exactly what year.

That's when my dad got his college degree.

He had gotten his associates earlier doing night school and things like that.

So I have a brother.

He's older than me.

And so at least in our house, it was...

paramount that my brother and I were the, basically the first generation to go to college, right?

And this is like a lot of families.

It's like, you will go to college because this is the path.

And I think you're right back.

Not to bring it all the way into education.

That's not my intent.