I'm finally going back to school (out since Fall 2000). Yay me.

[casavant]

Yep. It's going to be a bitch finding open classes that I want this late in the registration period, but I'm just taking two classes, and at $5 a credit hour, I don't care too much if it's underwater basket weaving just as long as I get my ass back into the fray and get the ball rolling again.

Just thought I'd share.

 

[TheProject]

Good job, cas.

I need to do the same.

 

[beastboy]

Good luck.

Maybe one day I'll try for my Master's.

 

[Warik]

I'm finally leaving school in April (in since Fall 2000). This has been quite possibly one of the worst experiences of my entire life.

-Warik

 

[dick tater]

I'm finally leaving school in April (in since Fall 2000). This has been quite possibly one of the worst experiences of my entire life.

-Warik

You are not alone.

 

[casavant]

I'm finally leaving school in April (in since Fall 2000). This has been quite possibly one of the worst experiences of my entire life.

-Warik

Yeah, I hear ya. I only have 30 hours under my belt. I completed one full year in '98/'99. I came out with a 3.78 GPA, but the pressure of having to keep a 3.5 minimum to retain my biggest scholarship, along with not having any earthly idea where I wanted to take my life made for a pretty miserable experience.

Now I feel that I can have a decent life even while going to school instead of feeling like I'm in hell, and I have more of an idea of what I want to do, so it's not as bad. Still, it's going to suck, but probably not as bad as the ever-increasing feeling that I'm an underachiever with a stagnant life and unrealized potential.

 

[WODIN]

Keep on trucking cas.

 

[fogg88]

$5/credit ??? Is that some sort of employee discount or something? I wish I could get that.

 

[naturally anabolic]

Yep. It's going to be a bitch finding open classes that I want this late in the registration period, but I'm just taking two classes, and at $5 a credit hour, I don't care too much if it's underwater basket weaving just as long as I get my ass back into the fray and get the ball rolling again.

Just thought I'd share.

In the same boat as you, going back to school after a long layoff, got my associates degree but decided its not what i want to do for the rest of my life, so back i go with a Biochem major this spring, should be interesting to see if i can handle work,school,life. Best of luck Cas.

 

[casavant]

$5/credit ??? Is that some sort of employee discount or something? I wish I could get that.

I'm a full time appointed staff member at the main library on campus. I even have a title- LAT I, or Library Academic Technician, level I. LOL. So yeah, I get classes for $5 a credit hour plus activity fees, and I can study a little on the job. It's a pretty cool deal. I'll probaby go full time next fall. This is kind of a warmup.

 

[casavant]

Re: Re: I'm finally going back to school (out since Fall 2000). Yay me.

In the same boat as you, going back to school after a long layoff, got my associates degree but decided its not what i want to do for the rest of my life, so back i go with a Biochem major this spring, should be interesting to see if i can handle work,school,life. Best of luck Cas.

What are you planning on doing?

 

[naturally anabolic]

i will be starting fresh with a biochem major, possibly minor in biology, use that as a stepping stone toward medical school and ultimately end up in research...such as a research physician position in endocrinology.

 

[Jimsbbc]

I have 90 hrs. Since I'm transfering to a new school, i am going to lose some. College sucks. It is the utmost pinnacle of hardship to be endured. I think it is much more stressful socially than anything else.

 

[casavant]

I have 90 hrs. Since I'm transfering to a new school, i am going to lose some. College sucks. It is the utmost pinnacle of hardship to be endured. I think it is much more stressful socially than anything else.

Yeah. College is a lot of friggin' drudgery, that's for sure. With something like lifting, you're getting little rewards all the time. With school, motivation is harder to come by (for me, anyway) because the tangible rewards don't come for years. It's like lifting your ass off for four years or more for the day when you'll finally have sixty pounds of muscle plunked down on your frame all at once. It's hard to visualize distant rewards as reality. My family always valued intellect, but never material things, so I've been more free to question the value of school than some. That's a good and a bad thing. Sometimes things are easier to do when you feel like you really have no choice.

Hell, I could go on for awhile talking about why I haven't gotten my degree yet, but the important thing is that I feel like I'm ready to get back in there.

 

[grlpwrd]

I'm a full time appointed staff member at the main library on campus. I even have a title- LAT I, or Library Academic Technician, level I. LOL. So yeah, I get classes for $5 a credit hour plus activity fees, and I can study a little on the job. It's a pretty cool deal. I'll probaby go full time next fall. This is kind of a warmup.

I never pictured you with that sort of job. Yes, that's a cool deal because you get great benefits like that $5 per credit hour fee..good luck to you!

 

[Warik]

The logic everyone throws at me when it comes to why I should go to college is that it's free because I have a scholarship.

Um... ok. $1,500 a semester x 8 semesters = $18,000. I could have earned that in a year if I wasn't too busy wasting my time at school. Instead I've spent 3 years being taught what I already know or what I will never need to know. Thank God almighty that it will all be over soon. I think I will take a pair of headphones and a book to graduation in case they try to brainwash me with some extra shit during the ceremony. I will then celebrate the same night with a mass purging of college information through many hours of video games and Star Trek episodes. Once I've purged my mind of all the college BS, it will be safe to get back to work in the real world.

-Warik

 

[Night Fly]

Cas,

That's awesome! I'm sure you will be glad that you are doing that...it will give you some other stuff to focus on for a while. Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[Lao Tzu]

i've got 34 hours with a 3.94 GPA (not like it matters), and it sucks how bureaucratic colleges are.

I just want some kind of technicians degree (pharmacist technician, dental assistant, etc) so i can make $10 an hour to pay my way through college (the only other option is $5.15 at a service job as far as i can tell), but the state board won't license online or distance education in these fields. It fucking sucks, i'm beginning to see why some of you hate bureaucratic governments so much now. I could learn to be a pharmacists technician in 4 months if i wanted, but i'd have to take some shit slow 10 credit hour a semester for 2 years with people with 85 iqs to get accredited. Just let me learn at my own pace please. I can learn this shit pretty fast if i want to/need to.

This is off topic, but where else could i post it? i didn't want to start my own thread.

 

[strider364]

Good for you Cas, good to see you back on the boards!

 

[casavant]

Good for you Cas, good to see you back on the boards!

Thanks bro.

 

[biteme]

Me too bro. It's never too late. You know how old I am. I'm going back to nursing school. I'm having a hard to time dealing with the feminine image of a nurse. I have always thought of myself as macho. My daughter and her friends and my nieces have been giving me hell about it. It will be a good career though with unlimited opportunities.

 

[MFMan]

Yep. It's going to be a bitch finding open classes that I want this late in the registration period, but I'm just taking two classes, and at $5 a credit hour, I don't care too much if it's underwater basket weaving just as long as I get my ass back into the fray and get the ball rolling again.

Just thought I'd share.

Good to hear. Soon you will be an educated fucker like Citruscide. Good luck.

 

[Jimsbbc]

With school, motivation is harder to come by (for me, anyway) because the tangible rewards don't come for years.

That's exactly how i feel. Maybe I have a problem with authority, but I can't stand the attitude of the profs and admin. I feel like one of those faceless dummies going through the cookie cutter machine on The Wall. I honestly hate being a part of this system and feeding it $$$$ but i am going to finish this if it kills me.

 

[casavant]

i am going to finish this if it kills me.

That's the attitude I'm trying to take as well.

 

[Nathan]

Good for you Cas. Sounds like a wise idea. I'll be done after this semester and don't know what the fuck I'm going to do. Jumping off a really high cliff sounds like my best plan so far. Should be awfully sweet.