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I’m on Spring Break right now, allowing a little down time after nearly burning out my retinas last night finishing a program before I had to send it to the professor at midnight. I’m going to be working on getting the house clean the next couple of days, and then we’re going to Mt. Nebo for three days in the middle of the week.
When I first started using the GI Bill for school my intention was to get a dual degree in Journalism and Computer Science. I already have two Associate’s degrees through the Air Force in Computer Science and Information Systems Management, and it seemed a waste to not do something beyond that. However, this semester has made me reevaluate this. I am taking a C++ class, and it’s been somewhat of a struggle, mainly because I find ways to procrastinate with it (which would explain why I spent about seven hours on the program yesterday and none in the two weeks before). I can write the elementary code that we are doing right now (not that C++ helps much with this--who thought I would miss Fortran?), but I have no desire to do so. Plus, I am taking a Survey of Calculus class, which I have a high C in (it was a mid B, but I really bombed my last test). I think I will be able to get it back in B range before the end of the semester, but it’s hard, especially after not taking a math class for the last 18 years. Plus, if I continue with the Computer Science degree, I still have to take another math class.
In my two Journalism classes and my Creative Nonfiction writing class, I have high As. It’s Spring Break, and I am going to start working on an essay tonight that is not due for another 12 days. I’m too old at this point to continue on something I know I don’t want to do, so I am going to drop the Computer Science degree (I will finish the classes this semester, though) and continue with the Journalism degree. I believe (based on whatever haggling I will have to do with my advisor in two weeks) that I probably only have another 4 or 5 semesters for that degree, so after that I hope to spend the rest of my GI Bill working on my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I likely will not be able to finish it before my GI Bill runs out, but at least I should get a pretty good headstart.
I only have three more C++ programs to write, thankfully.
When I first started using the GI Bill for school my intention was to get a dual degree in Journalism and Computer Science. I already have two Associate’s degrees through the Air Force in Computer Science and Information Systems Management, and it seemed a waste to not do something beyond that. However, this semester has made me reevaluate this. I am taking a C++ class, and it’s been somewhat of a struggle, mainly because I find ways to procrastinate with it (which would explain why I spent about seven hours on the program yesterday and none in the two weeks before). I can write the elementary code that we are doing right now (not that C++ helps much with this--who thought I would miss Fortran?), but I have no desire to do so. Plus, I am taking a Survey of Calculus class, which I have a high C in (it was a mid B, but I really bombed my last test). I think I will be able to get it back in B range before the end of the semester, but it’s hard, especially after not taking a math class for the last 18 years. Plus, if I continue with the Computer Science degree, I still have to take another math class.
In my two Journalism classes and my Creative Nonfiction writing class, I have high As. It’s Spring Break, and I am going to start working on an essay tonight that is not due for another 12 days. I’m too old at this point to continue on something I know I don’t want to do, so I am going to drop the Computer Science degree (I will finish the classes this semester, though) and continue with the Journalism degree. I believe (based on whatever haggling I will have to do with my advisor in two weeks) that I probably only have another 4 or 5 semesters for that degree, so after that I hope to spend the rest of my GI Bill working on my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. I likely will not be able to finish it before my GI Bill runs out, but at least I should get a pretty good headstart.
I only have three more C++ programs to write, thankfully.
