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As I halfway knew it would, registering for a class at Harvard's extension school involved retrieving information from whatever sort of records were created back in 2004 when I was dithering job-wise and bored enough to take a grad school class for fun. You can get a Master's in Linguistics at the extension school, and I totally thought in 2004 that I might just go ahead and get me one of those, but after the one semester I decided I'd rather get a new job instead, and that's what I did.
I've gotten several new jobs since, and the latest one allows me to take classes at the extension school for $40 each, so I'm trying to be a grown-up about it and enrolling in a program that is Relevant To My Career and not just audit art and literature courses forever and ever. I might change my mind, naturally. I'll almost certainly take forever to do this, if I do finish.
When I took that one course, I never got confirmation of my final grade by mail, and was never motivated enough to dig around online for it, so I only saw it for the first time after enrolling for my class this semester. As of right now, I'm an A-minus grad student in Historical Linguistics! As of this week, I'll almost certainly be dragging that average down by taking a Computer Science/Java course.
I expect this experience will either be very humbling, or the springboard to a new career phase in which I become a brogrammer.
I've gotten several new jobs since, and the latest one allows me to take classes at the extension school for $40 each, so I'm trying to be a grown-up about it and enrolling in a program that is Relevant To My Career and not just audit art and literature courses forever and ever. I might change my mind, naturally. I'll almost certainly take forever to do this, if I do finish.
When I took that one course, I never got confirmation of my final grade by mail, and was never motivated enough to dig around online for it, so I only saw it for the first time after enrolling for my class this semester. As of right now, I'm an A-minus grad student in Historical Linguistics! As of this week, I'll almost certainly be dragging that average down by taking a Computer Science/Java course.
I expect this experience will either be very humbling, or the springboard to a new career phase in which I become a brogrammer.