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%%%: *BANG BANG BANG* You need to get up! Let's go! Get up!
###: ?!?!?!
%%%: Okay, I'm going to go vacuum now.
###: Why'd you wait until as soon as I got up?
%%%: I didn't want to wake you up by vacuuming.
###: But you did wake me up!
%%%: Oh yeah...
My mother's been pressuring me pretty hard to enroll in a few community courses for credits, and we're at a bit of a disagreement. Now, I can see the importance in learning English as a second language, or a course on the intricacies of addition and subtraction, or even an intro course on how to turn on a computer, but I just don't know if employers can ever fully appreciate the level of reverence that having such credentials should carry.
Alright, seriously though. Community college? It's an absolute waste of time for myself. I'm not bashing on comm. college or anyone that attends, but when I take courses or learn different subject matter, it's for the knowledge, not credits. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for "credits" when I've already learned, during my own time, almost every area of interest-to-myself that they provide a course on.
For instance: Accounting; Art History; Photography; American Sign Language; Human Biology/Nutrition and Health/Anatomy; Intro to Business; "Chem in your life"; absolutely every computer course offered (there must be at least 20, and if I wasn't as knowledgeable as I am in this area, I still wouldn't know which courses to begin with); Intro to Criminal Justice; Intro to Teaching; English Composition/Creative Writing; Earth Sciences (I took a look at some of the course material for these classes, and I learned most of this shit when I was in the Boy Scouts...); American Gvt & Pol, Civil Rights, etc.; History - I have a pretty thorough understanding of the events of human history and the impacts they've had; Journalism, most areas of Literature, Writing; most areas of Math, Mathematic Concepts, and Theorization; Music Theory, Piano; Intro/Philosophy/Ethics/Practical Logic; I'm well-read on Psychology; I haven't taken a Spanish course in 4 years and still speak it well.
That's a long list, and my intention isn't to seem pompous or build up my ego. But for myself, there would be absolutely no purpose in taking courses for credits. As I've discovered, I learn much better on my own, and because my interests are multifarious, college just doesn't appeal me at the moment.
I wouldn't recommend any more than a quick skim of those last three paragraphs. Personally-irrelevant serious stuff is boring.
###: ?!?!?!
%%%: Okay, I'm going to go vacuum now.
###: Why'd you wait until as soon as I got up?
%%%: I didn't want to wake you up by vacuuming.
###: But you did wake me up!
%%%: Oh yeah...
My mother's been pressuring me pretty hard to enroll in a few community courses for credits, and we're at a bit of a disagreement. Now, I can see the importance in learning English as a second language, or a course on the intricacies of addition and subtraction, or even an intro course on how to turn on a computer, but I just don't know if employers can ever fully appreciate the level of reverence that having such credentials should carry.
Alright, seriously though. Community college? It's an absolute waste of time for myself. I'm not bashing on comm. college or anyone that attends, but when I take courses or learn different subject matter, it's for the knowledge, not credits. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for "credits" when I've already learned, during my own time, almost every area of interest-to-myself that they provide a course on.
For instance: Accounting; Art History; Photography; American Sign Language; Human Biology/Nutrition and Health/Anatomy; Intro to Business; "Chem in your life"; absolutely every computer course offered (there must be at least 20, and if I wasn't as knowledgeable as I am in this area, I still wouldn't know which courses to begin with); Intro to Criminal Justice; Intro to Teaching; English Composition/Creative Writing; Earth Sciences (I took a look at some of the course material for these classes, and I learned most of this shit when I was in the Boy Scouts...); American Gvt & Pol, Civil Rights, etc.; History - I have a pretty thorough understanding of the events of human history and the impacts they've had; Journalism, most areas of Literature, Writing; most areas of Math, Mathematic Concepts, and Theorization; Music Theory, Piano; Intro/Philosophy/Ethics/Practical Logic; I'm well-read on Psychology; I haven't taken a Spanish course in 4 years and still speak it well.
That's a long list, and my intention isn't to seem pompous or build up my ego. But for myself, there would be absolutely no purpose in taking courses for credits. As I've discovered, I learn much better on my own, and because my interests are multifarious, college just doesn't appeal me at the moment.
I wouldn't recommend any more than a quick skim of those last three paragraphs. Personally-irrelevant serious stuff is boring.