Education ?!?

There comes a time in your life when you wonder just how much more learning your brain can take. At this point in my academic career I think my brain has had about enough, although the road is not over yet, I still have a thesis and dissertation to dish out, but for some reason they just seem a whole lot easier then the course work that I have had to deal with for all of these years. I moved to London with the sole purpose of experiencing another education system, and well to live in London. Throughout my educational experiences some good, and some bad, I never really thought about just how much I have learned, that is until today.
So I was sitting in a lecture about evidence to policy, this lady is ranting on about systemic reviews, briefs, synthesis of data, etc, and in that very moment it dawned on me, I know exactly what she is talking about, I know exactly how to perform all those things, I know how to manipulate data, I know how to write policy briefs, I know about systematic reviews, hell I even know how to talk to politicians because I did it for 2 years in Washington, DC as a Legislative Aide to a Congressman...I mean I know this stuff. So for the first time in my whole entire life I knew...I knew that all of my hard work and dedication is paying off, all of those 10s of thousands of dollars that I have invested on this brain of mine well it is paying off. The big pay out is still a few years away. But as I sat in that room today, I really felt like I knew something, like hey this little girl from the bronx can actually make a contribution to this world.