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The High Cost of Education
Jul. 21st, 2005 07:32 am
Even at a community college... $702 for tuition for the first semester, + another $400 or so for books/materials. Ack! Needless to say, most of our tax return is gone. Rob's pissed off at me because it's pretty definite that we're not going to be going anywhere, out of the state or out of this house, for quite some time. What made it worse was yesterday we found a dead baby scorpion - and then Rob killed two more last night. (hmmm... I dropped grapefruit in my kb... yum!) I was up all day yesterday, running around. Took my math/English placement tests. I don't know what my Eng score was, but it let me register for Eng 101 online, so I couldn't have done too shabby. Math... well, let's just say that for a night auditor, I suck really hard at math. So my first math class is just basic beginner's college math. Add, subtract, multiply & divide - fractions, percentages, etc. Part of the problem is that I couldn't remember for the life of me what I was supposed to do w/the fractions... If it had all been quarters or thirds or fourths, no problem - I cook... but these were like, 7/8 + 5/12 - 3/7... I know there's something about cross-multiplying, but alas, my memory has been swept blissfully blank. And the algebraic questions were laughable. I can't remember what to do first, or to what. I do know how to figure out the perimeter of a rectangle, tho. p=2l+2w. I'm actually going to be going to the school twice a week - once for Accounting & once for Introduction to Information Systems.
With my chiropractor appt. tomorrow afternoon & Rob's eye dr. on Saturday, not to mention another dentist appt. on Monday or Tuesday, I'm having to put off buying any textbooks. The IS course is the first - it's only $50 some odd dollars for the book & study guides. The Accounting is over $100 used, the English is another $90 used, and the Math looks like it'll be at least $100 used. It's hard to judge what the Math & Eng will be because they're online & efollett.com doesn't have a bookstore for the online courses at West Charleston.
Me & Rob really had it out Tuesday night before I went to work, and he has promised to tie me up, drag me out to the car & throw me in the trunk those two nights a week if necessary. The online crap will be pathetically easy.
I've got two options for degrees - I can go for the Associates of Business, which is a fully transferable course designed to match w/UNLV's bachelor programs. However, for a CPA certification, I need 150 semester hours of pure accounting coursework. UNLV's bachelor program for accounting only has 60-some hrs. of accounting, & the AB degree from CCSN has 2 accounting classes, which is 6 hrs. Another Associates, the AAS (Associates of Applied Science in Accounting) has about 36 credits of straight up accounting, but it's not a 'transferable' degree, meaning I may have to retake some of those classes, or enter into another bachelor's program altogether, giving me about 6 yrs. of school to look forward to. But, if I take the AAS & then go for a bachelor's in WA, I should more than meet the requirements for a CPA. There's even a school in WA that is basically a CPA college - but I don't know what University it's through or if it's accredited or anything like that. More research is forthcoming.
I figure if I can take at least 75% of the classes online, I may have a better success rate than trying to go to school. I hate school. There are some that I will have to go to actual classes for - like the Accounting & the computer classes, and most of the math. I feel I can get away w/taking the basic math online because it's a reminder-course.
The English placement test was rough. I had to write an essay... about Elvis. 'Why do you feel Elvis is such an influential performer, and which modern artist do you feel is heir to his throne?' I laid it on thick about him being one of the biggest thieves of black music in history, and then I rambled on about Eminem being the next Elvis... If the scoring professor was a die-hard Elvis fan, I probably didn't get a very impressive score... if they happened to be a strong black woman, I should be getting a phone call saying I've already passed Eng 101... ;)
With my chiropractor appt. tomorrow afternoon & Rob's eye dr. on Saturday, not to mention another dentist appt. on Monday or Tuesday, I'm having to put off buying any textbooks. The IS course is the first - it's only $50 some odd dollars for the book & study guides. The Accounting is over $100 used, the English is another $90 used, and the Math looks like it'll be at least $100 used. It's hard to judge what the Math & Eng will be because they're online & efollett.com doesn't have a bookstore for the online courses at West Charleston.
Me & Rob really had it out Tuesday night before I went to work, and he has promised to tie me up, drag me out to the car & throw me in the trunk those two nights a week if necessary. The online crap will be pathetically easy.
I've got two options for degrees - I can go for the Associates of Business, which is a fully transferable course designed to match w/UNLV's bachelor programs. However, for a CPA certification, I need 150 semester hours of pure accounting coursework. UNLV's bachelor program for accounting only has 60-some hrs. of accounting, & the AB degree from CCSN has 2 accounting classes, which is 6 hrs. Another Associates, the AAS (Associates of Applied Science in Accounting) has about 36 credits of straight up accounting, but it's not a 'transferable' degree, meaning I may have to retake some of those classes, or enter into another bachelor's program altogether, giving me about 6 yrs. of school to look forward to. But, if I take the AAS & then go for a bachelor's in WA, I should more than meet the requirements for a CPA. There's even a school in WA that is basically a CPA college - but I don't know what University it's through or if it's accredited or anything like that. More research is forthcoming.
I figure if I can take at least 75% of the classes online, I may have a better success rate than trying to go to school. I hate school. There are some that I will have to go to actual classes for - like the Accounting & the computer classes, and most of the math. I feel I can get away w/taking the basic math online because it's a reminder-course.
The English placement test was rough. I had to write an essay... about Elvis. 'Why do you feel Elvis is such an influential performer, and which modern artist do you feel is heir to his throne?' I laid it on thick about him being one of the biggest thieves of black music in history, and then I rambled on about Eminem being the next Elvis... If the scoring professor was a die-hard Elvis fan, I probably didn't get a very impressive score... if they happened to be a strong black woman, I should be getting a phone call saying I've already passed Eng 101... ;)
