Posts tagged school
Working and School
Nov 30th
For the past semester I’ve been working a full time job doing electronics sales. During that time, I’ve also been trying to go to school and actually get my degree in psychology. Mixing the two was nothing but a big mistake.
I wouldn’t doubt that there are some people that are able to do school work and hold down a full time job, but somehow I just can’t do this “be two places at once” bit. I fully enjoy the work that I do over the internet, mainly because I can actually do it while I’m busy doing other things. However, it’s just me trying to be at work all day, then coming home having 8 hours to either sleep or do school work. On a usual situation, I find that I pick sleep, because without it, I can’t function, and when I can’t function, I can’t do either.
I can say that because I have tomorrow off, I can actually join you tonight to express my feelings about this subject. I have no more homework to do since the semester is basically over, but I can guarantee that my sales job will be pushed out of the picture by the end of December strictly so that I may finish my degree.
Money does make the world go ’round, but these days, an education can give you more opportunities than anything else in the world. This is why I can honestly say that I look down on those who drop out of school and don’t show and initiative to further themselves. However, I look up to those who have that certain drive to get things done in their life and not just sit around and mope about how hard it is to get a job.
I would prefer to not quit my sales job, since I do have expenses and I do know how hard it is to get a job, but just because I know I could do a heck of a lot more with the education I have in line for me, I will be.
I’m probably writing in circles here, but it’s all I can think about lately. I want to make sure that I can afford everyone’s Christmas, but then I won’t be seen at HHGregg anymore.
Trust me when I say that I don’t HATE my job. I hate the hours and how much of my life it takes out of me. No one I know likes to only go out at nights or on the same days I have school. I love, however, the flexibility that my other job gives me and the emotional payoff it has. Sales just gives me a monetarily greedy payoff, which I am actually sick of. I want the paper that says that I’m smarter than most Americans in the field of psychology, not the papers that say I am richer than the typical lower classes of America.
Note to Adam: I hope I made it clear that I’ll be staying on-board especially starting January.
Back to School!
Aug 19th
Tonight, I went back to school! My very first class in about 9 months. I was quite nervous about it. The class was MAC1055, or College Algebra. My teacher was…well… interesting, but having a teacher for a dad, I know they all are like that 
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My book, however, is not interesting… For some crazy reason, the publishing company decided that it was a good idea to NOT bind the pages… so I’ve gotta take the time and bind it myself 
But, all in all, I can’t wait for monday and doing it all over again…and then again on wednesday.
SpecialKolin is back in school, and back in action! KAPOW!
August 3, 2009
Aug 5th
So, I’m basically all registered for classes at CFCC for this semester… minus the fact that I’ve only got 2 classes. Not because I’ve waited too long and all the classes I can take are closed, but because I haven’t passed an English Class. Yeah, I’m feeling really depressed about it, because I know that it’s going to cause complications, but, I mean, when you can’t even get into a Psychology class, when you’re a Psychology major because of a missing English credit…uhg… I just want to get this freaking English over with, as well as my College Algebra.
I would like to just get all of my schooling over with as fast as possible. Putting it off longer and longer is just going to make things worse and worse on me. So, I guess one can say I’m skipping on joining the Air Force now. However, in the event that I do need a way to keep going with my education, I’m leaving it there as an option.
I really like my idea of having both a PhD and a degree in Digital Media, the two things I really love. Well, of course besides photography, but as I’ve been explaining through the entire time I’ve owned a camera, I haven’t taken classes, and I probably will never. Also, I love photography too much to risk ruining my experience doing it as a job.
Speaking of photography, I’ve got my Wind uploading photos right now. I’m typing all this out on my Aunt’s laptop. I’m just trying to make sure that everything is still running well. Which I’ve found that the battery is dead…for now at least…or maybe it’s completely dead Hopfully the former. I’d hate to see something bad happen to this laptop, it’s in such nice condition.
Well… it’s about 4am now, and I’ve got yet another big day ahead of me.
Goodnight Internet
Bridging the Classes
Oct 6th
[1:07p]
It’s only a few minutes before class, and it would appear that the door between our class and the class adjacent has been opened. The open door has allowed for the intrusion of audio from the class next door to enter ours. We’re a quiet class, generally, nor can we be considered the “smart class.” The class next to us appeared to be empty, but sounded as though it was full.
There are only a couple people in there, needless to say they were black, or at least the way they were talking, they were.
Hearing the language they were using and their dialect made me a little home sick of Miami.
First Day Back to School
Aug 19th
It’s been a whole summer, and most of us are back to school. I’m going to be making the very most of this school year. I’m going to try not to talk all school, but this was my first day back.
I don’t know if you know about this or not, but my school, CFCC, has about 4 campuses. This semester, I’m at the main campus, which is a first for me. This place was HUGE in comparison to the last campus. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous, and even got lost on the way to my first class.
Luckily my teacher wasn’t even available to teach the first class, so I wasn’t technically late. We were actually “taught” by the dean of the Math department.
Enough about the class, you’re here for tech, so here’s the tech part of my day:
In my first class, it was detrimental, I was lucky to get 2 bars on EDGE and the school hadn’t expanded their WiFi to that building yet. So yes, I had a horrible time in class. I then journeyed over to the Student Union building to aquire Wireless. I posted to Qik a couple time, then left due to how loud it was. OUtside, I connected my bluetooth headset, and tested that out on Qik [which btw, WORKS]. Then I went to my next class, which has FAST internet [it's all the teacher talked about, I swear].
Needless to say, my “Database Management” class is nothing but an Access 2007 class. I was actually expecting to learn, more in depth, how to use SQL, you know, the Database that companies WANT people to know. I’ve come to the conclusion that noone actually uses Access 2007, everyone just teaches it so that there’s no progress.
In short, I want 3G in my county. Call me up AT&T, please, I’ll do whatever it takes to get it here.
