Posts Tagged ‘college’

• It only took me 9 years

  Date: 2009.10.04 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  For nine years I have been sporadically working on acquiring a single piece of paper. As of Thursday, I have finally earned my associates degree. While I don’t technically have the degree because they only award them twice a year and I’m in the middle of the window I still have all the required credits. I can only hope that the the remaining credits that are needed for a bachelors degree don’t take another nine years to attain.

• f(x)=-1(4x-4)^2+3

  Date: 2009.09.23 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  I’m in my final math class for my associates degree and the equation above makes perfect sense to me. As a self proclaimed hater of math I somehow enjoy knowing what that equation means. I can actually visualize the graph of that parabola. I actually enjoy this class enough that I am going to take the next one in the series. Sure, its freshman level college algebra but I understand it – and – I think I’m proud of myself.

  I’ll be done with the second math class before I deploy at the end of the year so the timing is going to work out quite well. Before I leave I’ll be sure to register for a few online classes and try and knock out as many credits as I can while I’m deployed. I should have “oodles” of free time on my hands so I might as well be productive. I doubt that I’ll move on to calculus but I know that I will take statistics. Hooray for school! Hooray for learning!

• Done

  Date: 2009.02.19 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  The test is over and now I can get back to my normal routine… oh wait a minute. I’ve got to register for a math class and read a book that is sitting on my desk. Damn, it appears that it is never going to end.

• Here goes nothing

  Date: 2008.09.17 | Category: Life as we know it | Response: 0

  Billy Madison said it best “Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I’m not a fool! I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don’t get in a fight! Ohhhh, back to school! Back to school! Back to school! Well, here goes nothing!”

  Jessica is done with classes and I have no pending deployments so it’s time to head back to school. I took a DANTES test today on world religions and I’ll find out in a few weeks how bad I failed. When I do fail it will reaffirm the need to take a humanities course and one math course to get my associates degree.

  I registered for a US History class today and I’ll start the online portion of that as soon as my book arrives in the mail. If that goes well, I’ll register for some actual sit in a seat and stare at a professor class that will start in the middle of Oct. I’m looking at taking “The Problem of Evil” and “Business and Society.” I want to work on an economics degree but the most convenient school only offers it as a minor. If I really want to make it work I can always go to UW and transfer the needed credits. Why business and economics in light of our poorly performing financial sector? They obviously suck at what they are doing and it might be time for some fresh input or… the title of your degree really doesn’t matter it just means that you won’t get cut in the first round of resume sorting.

  The interesting bit of my education is that I won’t be getting my credits from one institution. I’m going to try and knock out prerequisite and some general education all online at school “A” while I take classes that actually interest me in front of a real live talking person at school “B.” We live in a wired society and its all possible now. They’ll probably keep me on midshift for a while so I know that I’ll have adequate time to do my schoolwork. Even if they shift me to days I’ll still have ample time to work. I need to keep the distractions minimal – I need to moderate goofing off. Its all good if it comes in the right sized doses.