get a degree

I spoke to a professor at Fayetteville State about finishing a Computer Science degree and I think it can be done in 2.5 years by transferring my credits from Michigan.

I am pretty sure that if I go to Fayetteville State I will have a degree in at least 3 years.

On top of all this its a cheap school to go to.

So now all I have to do is study!

I’d say I want a degree because I want to learn, and thats half true, but its not the whole thing. I want to learn, and I have never really had any problem doing it on my own. However, one of the things I have learned (for free) is that higher education isn’t necessarily about learning. Its about validation, I think it would be utterly ridiculous to spend an entire lifetime learning, and never validating any of the knowledge. It is also about guidance. You can learn your self in a circle for free, but sometimes it takes the oversight of someone who has been where you are trying to go, to direct your focus in the most efficient directions.

Luckily, I have wanted a degree for long enough that I now have a pretty sizable scholarship, and do not really have to worry about paying for it. So, more than just ‘getting a degree’, I think I want to get a degree that enters a room before me, and smacks everyone in the forehead right before I enter… letting them all know that ‘this guy knows what the hell he is talking about’. I feel the credibility alone makes the whole process worth the effort put into it.

Just finished my second semester at college… the first year :)
Still have a 4.0 GPA which makes me extremely happy :)

Can’t wait to walk down and get my degree just couple more years.

I didn’t get a chance to go to college – too many “life” things got in the way when I was younger. I’m ready to go back now! I just need to figure out exactly what for, where to go, and how to pay for it.

I’m done my first year and I survived and I passed everything (I think) Yay!

After wasting alot of my 20s (i’m 27 now) just messing around and working shitty jobs I decided I deserved better and could achieve better. I’m on an access to university course at the moment. I got accepted for a social policy degree at Bristol university in the UK, which is the best in the country for that course. I beat so many applicants too, so proud of myself :-). I can’t wait for my fresh start in a new city, with a new body (see other goals) and a flat to myself.

Three years of hard work are ahead of me and i’m relishing it.

This really really really needs to be done. And not just for career-type problems and money.

Getting a degree is the only way for me to somehow get to the next part of my life. I know that sounds bad, like I’m totally living in the future or something. It’s just that my life is so cluttered, I hardly know what to do with it anymore. In truth, things have gotten a lot better, but I still have demons following me around, and it will be that much easier – I know form experience – to deal with them or leave them behind, if I get to move on from this stage in my life.

I know that if I can just get enough energy and pull myself together through this last hurdle of writing my bachelor thesis, I’ll be out of here! I’ll move to a new place, to new challenges and new people, new experiences and a new perspective on life. I want that, but I have to constantly remind myself of it so I don’t slip. Energy is hard to come by sometimes.

This entry is for me to read when I get too tired, too lazy or too sad to go on.

This is one thing that should have been at the top of my list of priorities, right along w/losing weight. I’ve enrolled in every school I could & be very excited about going util mid-ways through the semester b/c it seems to get boring. I always start out studying hard, going to class everyday & focus on making the highest grade but once it starts to get boring I lose focus. I wish I had the drive to go ahead & finish. I’m almost $50K in debt in student loans & still have no degree…STUPID. My son will be 18 in about three weeks, I should have a degree by now. I should have made this happen when my mom told my sister & I that all she wanted was for us to finish college. I really don’t want my mom to leave this world & I don’t give her her dream b/c she gave me everything & even made sacrifices for us that she didn’t have too. My sister went straight to college after high school & got her BS in Business & she’s younger than I am. I really don’t want to disappoint my mom, my kids or myself. I have got to find a way to get back in school w/o having to take out anymore student loans…I’ll be paying them back forever. I know there’s a way.

I got in, I survived my first year, and now I only (ha! only) have three more years to go. It has deffinatly been worth it so far.

I’ve also come to discover that my practical work experience is not according to the rules, hence I now need another 11 weeks minimum of experience at a different position/firm I’m at at the moment. This is a bigger problem than the subject I failed since that does allow me to continue what I’m doing. The only option I see is that I take annual leave in winter and try to work it out that way.