Well, tonight I went looking to check for my grades from the Spring semister, which finished up a month or so back. When I logged into the school website to check, I found that I got a B in both classes! I knew that I had Biology sewn up with a solid B, but I wasn't sure about my Music class... I knew it was either B or C, but it was too close for me to call.
Yay!
Next up: Biology lab (one credit, three week summer term)
Coming this Fall: "Fundamentals of Communication" and "Intro to Cultural Anthropology", each three credits, normal Fall/Winter term. Rumor has it that the Anthropology teacher is a real "piece of work" so it'll be an interesting exercise.
At least I don't have to worry about work getting in the way of school this Fall!
Alright! Finals are over for this term, and I'll have my grades back in the next week or two. That means that I've got one term down, and several more to go. My records indicate that I've acquired about 18 credit hours. That puts me pretty close to "sophomore" ranking, I think.
I've determined that I can squeeze in two classes per term at this point. Chem and Calculus might make things a little tighter, when the time comes, but I'll worry about that when it happens, which won't be terribly soon. Next up: Biology lab, in the summer interim session, followed by Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and English 103 in the Fall.
Ok, so I took the "Information Systems & Computer Applications" CLEP test last week, and apparently I did rather well at it. The lady who is the testing center administrator was rather shocked when my score printed out. The maximum score is 80 (scaled between 20 and 80, whatever that means) and my score came out as a 73.
So, I'm another 3 credits closer to my goal. :D
As of today, it's 7 days to my "priority registration" date (10 May), which is determined by the number of credits that I have acquired. At this point, I'm in the "day 3" category, with 17 credits. Only 7 credits to go to get to the next "level" at 24+ but less than 48 credits.
The purpose of this method of registration is to allow the people who have the most credits to have first crack at the open classes, so that they can get the ones that they "need" first. I guess it makes sense, but it bites, especially for someone like me, a "non-traditional student" who has to weave school around career and family. Sigh.
Anyway, I've got a bunch of selections picked out, covering almost a dozen different courses. I hope that I can get classes that are in sequential time-slots, so that I can spend the least amount of time on campus as necessary. I work nights, so my "day-light time" is at a premium. I definitely want to sleep every day, and I would like to see my family, too. (I know, crazy. Whatever)
If I'm really lucky, I'll be able to grab 4:30 - 8:40 in the afternoon/evening on Monday and Wednesday. Then again, there's a Composition class that "will focus on literature of the paranormal and the supernatural" which sounds like it'd be a lot of fun. Either that or the section that "will use argumentation as the basis for writing assignments" which Kristen thinks I should take. :) I could take either of those and fill out the semester with any (or all) of 5 additional CLEP tests...
Decisions, decisions, decisions...
