This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on September 5, 2005). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
As of approximately 10:15 this morning, I’ve officially applied for admission to North Seattle Community College, intending to start in January with the Winter 2006 quarter.
I suppose 15 years after graduating High School was a long enough wait.
“Fu-Gee-La” by Fugees from the album Ruffhouse Records Greatest Hits (1996, 4:19).
You might want to check out ratemyprofessors.com, but take it with a big grain of salt. Remember that most of the people using the site are likely late teens, early twenties as far as age goes and probably have a very different work ethic than you and they will probably also take some things personally and let them play into their evaluations. A flawed tool in the hands of a good worker is still a useful tool.
Good for you, Mike. It took your mom from ’68 to ’93 to finish hers, so you are sort of following in the family tradition.
Love to Prairie.
What will you study?
I’ll see you at school – I work as a tutor in the “Math Learning Center” (the programming/physics/chemistry/math tutoring center) and maybe we’ll even have a class together sometime (if you happen to be getting a similar degree).
Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions about where to find what.
Autumn
Congratulation sir. That is a very noble endeavor and I commend you.
I’m not entirely sure yet, to be honest — I’ve got the first year or so to get through whatever GenEd stuff I can’t test out of anyway — but I’ve been leaning towards teaching/education, probably somewhere in the English/Humanities general area (numbers and sciences have never been a strong point for me).
Hey, nifty — if nothing else, I’ll have to stop by and say hi at some point. I’m not sure how likely it is that we’ll end up in a class together, but given my talent for mashing numbers together, it’s at least somewhat possible that I might need to look into the tutoring at some point…;)
You and Kevin need to coordinate somehow. He has done the full music curriculum at UAF but still has “general education requirements” to slog through.
Those are the ones Dad & I think you can CLEP rather than sitting through day after day of classes. I did Ancient History that way and I don’t test as well as you. Two weeks to read the text, take the test and be done with it. Of course you can always take the class if you don’t score well, but that’s hard for me to imagine.