I’m officially in college now. I’m signed up for 2 classes over the shortened summer session which technically makes me a full time college, full time worker, full time husband and full time father. I’m sure that adds up to more than 100% somewhere along the way. I should be able to figure out exactly what it adds up to soon since I’m working on my math degree.
Both of the classes, and in fact all of the classes I’ll be taking, are all online from the University of Illinois at Springfield. This program specifically.
This summer I’m taking CHE 261 – Global Greening for a Sustainable Future and CSC 442 – The Internet and American Life.
In addition to that, I need to retake/relearn Calc 1 through 3 before I can take the rest of the math classes for my major. I tested out of Calc 1 and 2 when I was a freshman in college and started in Calc 3. That was in 1993. I took my last math classes in 1995 when I left academia for the military. I signed up too late to get into the Calc 1 online and just found out that it won’t be offered online this fall. But Calc 3 will be. So while I’m doing my full time coursework, I’ll also be reteaching myself Calc 1 and 2 in the 12 weeks between now and August 24th when the fall session begins.
For my down time, I’ll be playing with the kids, helping clean the house once in a while, and taking occasional nights off to watch TV with BeAGoodMom.
I did find out some good news about all of this. I originally thought that I would have 14 classes (plus 1 – 1 hour doohickey) left after this summer semester and just found out that I probably will only have 9 (plus that 1 hour doohickey) – 8 of which will be math classes. Two of those are because of the Calc 1 and 2 debacle and the others are because I already have somewhere near 4000 college credit hours from my prior educational endeavors. That means there is some chance if all of the classes are magically offered exactly when I need them that I will be done with the BA degree around Spring 2011 or so which I’m pretty sure will be before my kids earn their college degrees.
Take that you lazy kids!
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EEK, I hope you have time to come up for air. Love MOM
BAGD, I thought sometime back in April you hinted that you might relate why you left the easy life of partying and generally goofing off that is the college experience for most of us for the life of privation working for Uncle Sam. But now I can’t find the post. Would you still consider enlightening us at some point?
Also, in the “unfinished business” department, what were Geets’s two April Fool’s Day pranks this year (http://www.beagoodmom.com/1681/happy-april-fools-day/)? I though BAGM had hinted you might disclose them, but I can’t find that post either…
I am behind you 100%. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help make it easier for you. I wouldn’t suggest it be taking a test for you though. Love you.
DustyShelf, I need to put you in charge of my exercise routine. I haven’t been held this accountable since…well, since basic training.
I don’t remember what the April Fools Day jokes were exactly. How sad is that. I remember walking in the door and getting verbally blasted by her telling me to do 100 things all at once and I remember there was a joke in there somewhere but she delivered it in the way that only an excited 6 year old can. I remember a fake letter stuffed in the mailbox but don’t remember what the letter said now. I will say that we still get a gem of an April Fool’s joke from Geetle about once every couple of weeks these days.
I’ll have to get BAGM to reply with the details of the joke.
I will gladly write a post on my decision to drop out of college and join the military. They were really two different decisions. It is way heavy on the pathetic and whiny and not nearly heavy enough on the desire for intrigue and excitement but that decision is causing heavy repercussions (both good and bad) right now as I start back into college. I’ll work on that.
We are so proud of you! If you need extra babysitting…let us know! Love ya!
I tested out of the one hour doohickey when I was in the Navy. Let me know if I can help:) love dad
The April Fools Day joke was that Barack Obama sent you a letter to say you had won an art contest. We made the letter on PrintShop, making our own fake letterhead. The letter said a limo was coming for you at 6pm and you should wait out front by the mailbox. She really wanted you to wait by the mailbox, and then she was going to laugh at you from inside the house. The second letter was because she and I found your debit card in the laundry that day. She wrote a letter saying she was a boy named Jeremy Jason who found your debit card and was mailing it back to you with an envelope you could use to mail him a reward. She was going to volunteer to mail the envelope for you, on her way to the bus stop the next morning. You were supposed to give her the envelope (with the money in it). Then she was going to take the money, run away and yell “April Fools!”. That one was too many steps and she got confused. Didn’t go so well.
Barack Obama sent you a letter to say you had won an art contest.
Geets…what a goofball!
Yikes! I finished college in 2000, and so it has only been 9 years since I’ve been in a Calc class….and I’m sure I would struggle with Algebra II right now.
Good luck!
Jared, As I’m going through these early Calculus lessons, I’m actually having more trouble with the Algebra/Geometry/Trig portions (where you need to know neat tricks to do substitutions and such) than with the actual “Calculus” part of the information. I should probably make sure I can still do basic multiplication and division someday since I seem to have forgotten the stuff that I learned earliest faster than the stuff I learned last.
DustyShelf, It was so funny watching her try to pull it off and just barely not quite not ruining the joke along the way. She’s going to be a nasty April Fooler some day.