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School Woes

April 25th, 2005
 

Ah, yes, heading back into the place, once again, where I said I’d never return.

A bit ago, I registered online for classes for Summer and Fall semesters of 2005. Well, kinda.

For this summer, I’ll be taking BUS101: Intro to Business. Yay. How exciting. Can’t you just feel the sarcasm? This is a required class for my degree, one of two business classes, the only non-computer classes, since I have all my other required stuff done from when I got my doesn’t-get-me-anywhere first degree.

The good thing about this class is that it’s distance learning so I don’t have to actually go to campus. And, since it’s a summer course, it’s only six weeks long. Yay.

Then for this Fall, I’ve already registered for CIS153: Intro to Visual Basic Programming. I tried to register for CIS135: Intro to Photoshop, but nooooo the computer won’t let me. It’s telling me that it can’t find my final scores for the pre-req of CIS133: Microcomp Software Apps. Well, duh. That would be because I haven’t taken that class. It was already waived for me for Fall 2004 so I could take Intro to Web Development.

I mean, c’mon. This is the description of CIS133:

“Microcomputer Software Applications gives practical experiences using widely utilized microcomputer software application programs: word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), database (Access) and presentation (PowerPoint). Also, students learn basic Windows functions and briefly explore the Internet. Students may find it necessary to work in the computer lab outside of class in order to complete the assignments. This course meets the computer literacy graduation requirement.”

If you can’t test out of that… you shouldn’t be going for a degree in computers…

I could have and probably should have tested out of Intro to Web Development for that matter. The only thing I learned in there was a tiny bit of Javascript.

So I had to email — ah, crap, I just realized I spelled “waived” wrong in my email to the registration people… anyway, I emailed them to say, “excuse me, what’s up with dat!?” So we’ll see…

Everytime I mention school around here, Steve raises an eyebrow, looks at me funny, and says, “don’t you already have enough to do?”

In a word?

Yes.

 
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3 Responses to “School Woes”

  1. Ruthie · (subscriber)
    April 25th, 2005 at 6.01 pm
     

    Good luck with school! I really hope they don’t make you take that LAME class. Sounds like a business class i took in high school. Boring!! Learned all those Microsoft programs which I already knew how to use. But it was entertaining none the less cuz I’d finish all my assignments fast and have time to mess around :P Anywho.. Hope all the best for you! :D

  2. Marie · (subscriber)
    April 25th, 2005 at 6.27 pm
     

    I found your site from htr reviews and was wondering if you still have your scripts somewhere :) I would have emailed you but i didn’t find the link, I really hate asking this in the comments :/

  3. Nicole
    April 25th, 2005 at 7.34 pm
     

    When I was in school they had a Long Distance Learning Lab, is that the same thing? It was very cool talking with the people at the other places. I asked a few questions and gave answer. The things you can do with technology are awesome. “and briefly explore the Internet!” Wow, that’s amazing. :o That sounds like a course for extreme beginners. It is very annoying when things don’t go smoothly. Hopefully they’ll have advice for your problem and you can register for the Intro to Photoshop course. That’s okay, it’s an honest mistake, don’t worry about it too much valerie. :) Hah Hah, Steve is funny. You do do a lot! That sounds kind of funny if you put do do together. Heh, sorry I’m in a silly mood right now. It must suck having to do school when you don’t want to be back there again, good luck though. In the end it should be worth it though.

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