Complex sentence: Pajer earned a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Washington and in 2001 she decided to complete her bacherlor's degree that she had started many years earlier, only instead of studying pre-engineering, her focus became Culture, Literature, and the Arts.
Split into simpler sentences: Pajer earned a Creative Writing Certificate from the University of Washington. In 2001 she decided to complete her pre-engineering bachelor's degree that she had started many years earlier, only instead to focus on Culture, Literature, and the Arts.