CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 21 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
When Jannine Jacoby sits down for the first day of class this fall, she'll be starting the last year of her 31-year quest for a bachelor's degree nearly 300 miles away from her school, the University of Virginia. But she's not concerned.
Well, maybe a little.
"I'm going to start my capstone in the fall and, fingers crossed, I'll finish in the spring," Jacoby said from her basement office at her home in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, about 282 miles up Interstate 81. "I'm still a little worried, because there were so many points in time where I almost quit - actually right after my first semester, my second semester and my third semester - because I w...