COLLEGE!!!
Education is important. Let me tell you guys about my college experiences. The first one was PCC. I got signed up with a friend took some addie and we went off to class. I think we walked onto campus with our coffee all jacked up and eventually she decided to go home. After about five minutes. Of course she never wanted to go back so I had no way of going to class. So I dropped out like the G that I am. The second experience I went to FullSail for a tour, met my advisor looked at living expenses and never came back to the campus. During my pregnancy with Andrew to quickly get a certificate in something I decided to go to Everest online for medical billing and coding. I made honors the first two semesters. Then I was told I needed to move out so I panicked and just stuck to my two jobs. Also I didn't really want to do it and the credits there were useless at a community college.....I have known this for a long time that I am a writer. I am supposed to be blogging making scripts or creating story lines for video games, something nerdy and interesting like that. Journalism or Creative writing is not like the health industry or Food. You do not need any type of certification to do it. Right now what I'm doing is what I want to have a degree in. Writing this blog. Giving you all who are reading this some type of news or entertainment with my awesome vocabulary. I've been doing a lot of reading this week, so much so that my eyes are on fire and this is what I have learned: I hate school. I hate talking about it, paying for it, enrollment, etc. It has been about five years since I took my tour at FullSail but out of sheer interest (and desperation because I have to start doing something) I went back to the website and gosh golly like every media entertainment school they have a journalism program and it's ONLINE. So of course I pooped my pants and went straight to student review and read as much as I could. The curriculum is awesome BUT it's a 24/7 sector (for those of you that have kids like myself cannot do dat campus thang) it's expensive as fuck, the job placement program apparently isn't good and did I mention it was expensive as fuck...and *drumroll please* it's nationally accredited. Like Everest. Now when a college says they are nationally accredited that sounds good right? NOOOO lol <<< I really did that. National means (in a way peoples like yallz and me can understand) is what your school teaches is pretty much the polar opposite of what you will find at any local CC or University. But if you have credits at a regional school they damn sure will take them so you will go to their school and make it rain Benjamins in the student loan office. My man is moving to FL towards the end of this year and I need to have what I want to do figured out before he gets here. He is a strong believer in going to a BAMF school (which has made me feel a little pressured and unsure about CC). The most badass one you can find so for a while I looked down on CC education or anything instate. The possibilities are endless and conversation is usually endless because well a degree in journalism is nothing. It would be more matter of fact if I wanted to be a nurse or a doctor or lawyer or something. Majority of the people that do what I want to do for a living have no education at all. And if they do (this is coming from their mouth) its useless. My friend Dorian had a BBM buddy that started by blogging about phones now he writes articles for this big tech site and moved to NY after the fact of his career takin off and his degree is useless, he is probably still paying on it now. I asked a retired journalist of 50yrs what school I should attend and you know what he told me to do? "Save your money and read some books." so after being all up in FS I woke up this morning and I looked at CCs because I want somebody to tell me more about these books this white man told me I need to be reading. Their ratings are not high but every single one contains the core classes I would need to work towards my AA and so I can major in journalism. Also that AA can get me a better job for the time being. And if I hate one because I chose regional I can go to another school even a national *bingo!*....honestly I only wanted that MacBook Pro from FS out of the LaunchBox. I'm gonna be smart and protect my bank account. To be continued......
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