To cook or not to cook. That is the question

Before I decided to come to BYU I contemplated the idea of just going to culinary school. Cooking has always been a passion of mine and something that I knew I eventually wanted to pursue. Yet after a lot of mental debate and long nights of stressing over not knowing what to do with my life, I came to the decision that in this suffering economy, there is nothing more valuable than a college degree. What what made my that much harder, however, was the fact that BYU has absolutely no culinary program at all. Alas i felt momentarily defeated.
But I wasn't about to give up without a fight. I researched all the possible outlets for any type of cooking class and found one called "cooking for the home." I jumped at the first chance and reworked my entire schedule just so that i could have my cooking outlet. And while I have found the class to be almost insultingly basic, I also found other ways to "get my fix of cooking". In french we are in our food unit and so learning how to pronounce all the different foods and beverages in french. Then in chemistry, I found that combing chemicals in their stiochiomentric relationships is almost like following a recipe. Lastly, in my free time, as nerdy as it sounds, I look up recipes to dishes and desserts that I plan on making at some point.
While I miss having a kitchen and being able to cook whenever I please, this has been a major learning experience for me. I have learned just how passionate I really am about cooking, but also how I can incorporate it into all parts of my life. My new plan is to go to culinary school during my springs and summers and maybe even use my new knowledge of french to do a culinary study abroad in the heart of the culinary world-Paris. Yet however things turn out, I know that this will be a life long passion of mine.