Feeling a little put out at the moment....I basically have spent 4 years getting a BFA in Photography, along with that I will get my BS in Secondary Education after this fall, and from there I plan on getting my MFA in photography.....our school here is one of the few places that really offers a MFA in it....and I can't afford to go to the other, more prestigious schools that offer it, neither in the travel sense or the financial, the tuition here is really reasonable. However, I look at work from my peers whom I recognize is wonderful, and I would really love to do more people work, but small towns often come with small minds, so I have limited access to people who want to be photographed (we have trouble every semester getting a model of both sexes for figure drawing). My show gave me some awesome feedback, and I get faved fairly often, and when I can afford it I'm getting a full membership here, then I'll be able to ask for critiques. I'm not sure if any of my peers on here have post-secondary educations, but it feels like I may have been better off just teaching myself in some ways, though I have learned an awful lot in a shorter time than I would have doing it on my own, I wonder if the money could have been better spent on equipment. I rarely get any feedback on my work from my peers involved in the same, usually just from the one or two who are close to me, and only one of them does photography, and I see her progress since I started doing it semi-professionally, it makes me wonder at the necessity of it (the education). I have what amounts to an associates degree in graphic design and printing production, but again, it always seems like it amounts to very little...and so I am left to thinking.....which isn't always a healthy pursuit.