Educate

[_loquacious]

So I've been doing some thinking; I really miss being in school. A lot. As a nerd this is painful. I miss being in a knowledge-centric space and everything/everyone is a reminder to that piece of my life that is unfinished. Even at the damn club on friday I almost lost my buzz everytime the DJ asked all the ladies 'who got a college degree? Who

Comments

[anonymious1]

thanks 4 info about CLEP. i looked it up a bit, i feel a bit like you do, although my goal is to increase earning potential, plus i feel envy toward those i know personally when seeing them doing better than i am.

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/about.html

i feel you about AES. although im happy a bit b/c i stayed there b/c i wouldnt have known some of the ppl i know, and it was easy, but still, if we left / tried harder our futures would have been a lot better.

although i hate the idea of getting back in the classroom in this day and age, it is necessary :\

[_loquacious]

thanks sis. I ended up finding it after I finished this entry and stayed up all night researching. Brooklyn college has a linguistics program that I'm interested and I read up on their policy regarding CLEP exams. They'll take up to 90 credits as long as they are not general education courses. I'll have to make a few calls to see which exams they don't accept so I dont make the mistake of spending my money on some credits I can't use

[_keena]

i love to learn too, but i think some knowledge should be free. i have too many excuses and reasons as to why i dont wanna return to traditional school, meh!

i never understood star trek. i feel like i would have to watch the VERY first episode from back in the 60s to comprehend it all..

[_loquacious]

girl I feel you! I wish we were in europe where university was paid for by the gov't and we could feel free to get our degrees stress free. I think my problem (and a lot of other young folks who are going off to college) is that at 17-18 who knows WHAT they want for sure? If you choose an expensive school, dedicate years to a major you have no true passion for or just waste time taking liberal arts class after liberal arts class with no true goal in sight, you can mess around and put yourself in thousands of dollars of debt. If you have a goal in mind and know you need X amount of credentials to get where you need to be then by all means, get that degree. just barely making the cut off to graduation with C's or spending 100K on a degree with no job lined up is really messed up.

I'm sure there's a cliff notes version of the original star trek floating around somewhere. I'm a sci fi nerd so I loved the movie regardless.

[anonymious1]

see! thatsexactly what i want to avoid, which is one of the lk 4 reasons i dropped out. i dont want to be wasting my money when i dont know what i want to do. why people dont understand that; i dont know. buuuuuut...if we didnt have to pay to learn then that wouldnt be an issue damn greedy universities

btw what was your ultimate answer to the "what do i want to be when i grow up?" question? lol

[_keena]

and THAT'S why many people feel like colleges are a scam!