The Summer classes have been completed successfully, although not without frustration. Three 16-week classes condensed into 4-week cram sessions that took every bit of strength not to drop. The content was crucial but learning and retaining anything was impossible. All three were very technical and could not be reduced because each new section relied on […]
The end of the semester brings a sense of accomplishment, relief, and apprehension all at once for me during the Winter break. I have made some more progress to my goal, which is a massive sense of accomplishment that I never thought I would be able to experience again after many failed attempts returning to […]
Nothing like a trip of a lifetime to reset the routine for a final push to enter my final year of this return journey to school. Scotland and the greater UK were exactly what was needed to suspend our lives back in the States. Pursuing, and achieving, this voyage was a much-appreciated exercise in patience, […]
We have a plan in place for the trip and will do our best to stick to it, but that will most certainly not happen. That’s part of the fun of a trip like this though. Plans are useless but planning is essential. Who cares who said it, it applies here in the most serious […]
Another semester completed and I could not be more relieved. The seemingly endless routine of taking classed has caught up with me. I am in my third year of the back-to-school journey and for the first time I could have thrown in the towel during the semester and been ok with it, but then I […]
The new year is here and my resolutions are off to a terrible start. Refocus on the timely blog entries needs to be done and I promise it will be. Today we will write about how last semester ended, how this semester is going so far, and plans for the first half of the year. […]
There are two classes I am taking this semester, PC Repair and C# programming. I wanted to give my thoughts on what my expectations were at the beginning of the semester and my thoughts about halfway through the term. First up is PC Repair which is designed to prepare the student for the CompTIA A+ […]
When in the course of writing a blog you find yourself needing to separate from the work and let someone else take the stage. This week we are doing just that. We have a guest blogger with her take on any subject of her choosing, completely without input from me or restriction. While this endeavor […]
In an attempt to produce a consistent series of posts to this blog I have failed to do just that. I let several life events hold me back, when I should have been using those supposed roadblocks to enhance my writing skills. For that I am sorry to my many followers who are sure to […]
To say that I am going back to school at age 40 is not entirely accurate. This process began last year when I turned 39 and my wife said she was thinking about getting her degree. I fully supported her decision, but I was not even considering going back myself. It wasn’t until I took […]
