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Chad Holland

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Re:Our Graduation pics are up. - 2007/06/01 19:35 I wish you luck. I finally gave up and accepted that I have to do the best I can with without a degree.
I will say that there was no single concept that I couldn't eventually 'get' in Algebra. The problem is by the time I figured one concept out the rest of the class was 3 sections down the road. I was like a dog tied to the bumper of a car that could keep up at first...but not for the whole trip!
Also, I never could retain what I learned. Take a test about some formula from a chapter I read 6 weeks ago? Is that a joke? It should be: learn the chapter, do the practice work, take a 3 or 4 question exam over what you just learned all in the same day.
I looked at the Unviersity of Pheonix because they are accredited. But they are $500 per credit hour! And the 'work' is basically hang out in a chat room with no tests. So essentially you are just buying an expensive, easy degree. I have no problem with a 'paper' degree, because I know from experience college doesn't make people any more competent for a specific career. (Think I'm wrong? Tell me how Humanities relates to troubleshooting lines of PowerBuilder or .Net?) I just don't want to go $30k in debt to finish!
For IT, the appropriate certification for your field is cheaper and faster to obtain than a degree and you can directly use what you learned when you get hired. I'm working on the MCSA 2003 cert right now. I don't think I can pass the Exchange test though. I know all the material but Microsoft's question formats are UNREAL.
At least a Degree never expires like certs do.

Ah well, good luck!

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Re:Our Graduation pics are up. - 2007/06/02 17:14 I'm working at it...I'm still working on my basics at the moment...I'd be doing really well if I had time to deal with it. Most of my college work so far has been done while I was either working full time or really really sick. So I haven't really had a chance to do as well as I know I can. I was never that great a student, but I know I can do better than I have been doing. And as for Algebra, ugh. No matter how prepared I think I am for a test, they change the rules on test day I think. I always bomb the tests. I can really do well on the homework, but tests kill me. My son is further along in algebra than I am. That is really embarrassing!

And yea, University of Phoenix is a joke. You don't have to honestly do the work! I have a couple of friends who "went" to school there, and they're just as dumb as they were when they started!! I've had to work my butt off at RSU! I had four books to read last semester, and they never even had to crack open a textbook for UofP's classes! But I always swore I was going to go to college, and I was going to get my degree. I may have to hire a tutor (I hope they have LOTS of patience!) for Algebra, but I'm gonna finish school! Everyone always said when I got pregnant with Kory at 16, I'd never finish High School. I went back and finished. I graduated, which even I started to doubt my last few months of school (Kory got RSV and I missed A LOT of classes). But I did it. One of my greatest accomplishments so far. And even I said that I probably wouldn't get to go to college. I wanted to, but I didn't know how I could have. But now I'm in college, and darnit, I'm going to finish. I may be 80...but I'm going to get that darned degree! lol Or go nuts trying.

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