Formally Announcing

I'm thinking about Alternative Majors, just in case I dont like Engineering or cant cut it.

I had entertained the idea of Social Work, but thats out, I figured I'd better keep more formal track, after all, whats the point of this little Blog if I dont use it for what it was created for?

Alternative Majors for Consideration:
Information Technology
Computer Science
Engineering (Computer, Electronic, Electrical)
Education
Business Administration

Minors to be considered:
Spanish
Arabic
Creative Writing

No longer considering

Social work as an alternative 4 year degree. A couple weeks ago, there was a list on Yahoo of the 10 lowest paid majors and guess how Social work ranked? #1!

Yeah, so, it never occurred to me to check how much money social workers make. I was hesitant because I know some of the horror stories about this line of work. You have to see tragic things, you have to step in between families and take parents out of childrens lives. Sometimes for the better, sometimes -- due to misunderstandings -- for the worse.

Its truly a career you have to love the work, but I felt I might be to soft for this line of work anyway, as I cant stand to upset people. I'm more of a people pleaser than anything else. Also, who wants an irrate parent to stalk and or attack them for butting into their lives?

Anyway, knowing what highstress, emotionally taxing job this was, I had figured that the work would make it worth while. The sort of life style that I want to lead would make this a bad career choice, so...no. Absolutely not.

I'll keep looking.

An Odd Oversight.

I dropped a class today. My Science class.

Why? Because I dont need it and I feel tired and cranky about it and it would eat away at what few precious hours I have remaining toward my degree.

Because I'm looking at Engineering, I'll be required to take Chemistry, and two semesters of Physics, and there is a special clause that says I can waive/work around the general science requirements if I'm pursuing a degree that requires special selections of Science.

So this summer I'm taking only two classes: Literature and Algebra. Thank God!

I'm relieved, I will be buying a copy of the textbook for my private collection, as it was a great book and all, but right now I need money and more time to focus on whats' on my plate and whats coming up ahead.

Its been almost a year since I began school. I'm kind of pleased with my progress, as when I finish in mid-July I will have earned (assuming all goes well) 42 credits!

I'll need to do some serious soul searching this summer, to decide if I want to finish the AA off this fall and go do something else, or if I want to grit my teeth and really go for Engineering...Hmm...

I will have 4 classes left in the Fall. 2 Maths and 2 Sciences, if I decided NOT to go for Engineering. I can take classes on an A-B schedule and 4 hours of electives, (Spanish III) and be done with the first leg of my College journey.

OR

I can have 5 maths and 3 sciences left, take 1-3 classes a semester until Spring 2012 and then have a brief break before starting at Uni in the fall....

Decisions, Decisions....

I wanna be a mathemagician, I wanna be a mathematician!

So, I passed my Elem. Algebra class this semester with a B, but I feel that I've learned minimally. I learned inqualities and started on factoring but factoring is still rather clumsy to my mind.

However, I'm ready to start Intermediate Algebra because I've got something to prove to myself come the fall. I'll either be ready for College Algebra, (and Engineering PreReqs!) or not. I am hoping for the latter.

Anyway, I'm going to rework my way through an Elementary Algebra book but, more importantly, I've finally gotten my hands on a Mental Math book. Secrets of Mental Math. I've already learned a couple of tricks and I intend to do the whole book.

For now, I've borrowed my schools copy, but I may have to get my own copy eventually. I'm going to be starting a special blog dedicated to math in a few minutes and I just wanted to write to say so.

Changinge Objectives

Or I suppose you could say "drifting objectives"

I started this blog with the intention of documenting my race to finish school with 2 degrees, an AA and an AS and with 3 certificates. I am, on track to complete my AA by the end of the fall semester, as I have only 7 elective credits, and 5 classes left.

I will be taking 3 classes this summer (one of which is 3 hrs of my electives)
MAT
LIT
SCI
I'll also take 4 classes this fall (4hrs of which will be my remaining electives)
SCI
MAC
MGF
SPN

But as I've decided to go into Engineering, thats tacked on a year of pre-reqs I have to knock out. My decision to major in Engineering has changed my plans a bit, as I no longer feel the need to earn a second 2-year degree (An AS, in Electronic Technology Engineerin) and I have never wanted an AS in Paralegal and Legal Studies. MY end-game plan is still to get a respectable GPA and eventually sit for the LSAT and go to law school, but now my methods for wanting to get their have changed.

I'd still like to take the time to earn two Certificates, (Small Business Management and Personal Trainer) but I no longer have a clear cut plan to achieve this goal. I'll have to put some thought into this, and consider my options.

It may be necessary to leave off the certificates at this time, as they've recently enacted a new law that penalizes excess credits earned...