On a scale of One to Fucked, I'm about..... Here
[1--------------------------Fucked] X
I like school, I hate schools. they get in the way of learning. lets take a colourful tour of my track record.
I graduated highschool a semester early because I didn't really enjoy it anymore. I spent that last semester getting my Gen Eds out of the way like a good boy should. Speech, Soc., Psych. all done. We add that to the AP classes of US History and World History and i'm well on my way to being a semester ahead before summer even hits.
I went to Olivet and then just as suddenly left. Having only spent one year there I could already tell that it was not the school for me. [also seeing as their degrees appear to be near worthless (sorry friends) it was probably the wise choice]. However I can't help but think that if I had given them a bit of my soul, 45 thousand dollars and 3 years of my life, I might be working in a hospital by now.... hmmm.
Sometime later I applied to Northern Illinois University, enrolling in their EMT-Paramedic program. I say this because it was offered on the website and because the adviser recommended it! I said great! signed up for housing with my brother Joe and went to the orientation/ registration day. It was there that I found out there was no such program. It was a different program which had been mislabeled, and was merely something that might help someone who is trying to become an EMT-Paramedic. (note: a four year bachelors program to prepare you for a two year associates program not offered at their school.) I explained my situation to the college and was given my housing deposit back and a shrug of the shoulders.
I then went back to my community college (Harper) and became certified as an EMT, I also got a ton of nursing prereqs out of the way. and received my AA.
I found a Paramedic program! it was in Flagstaff, Arizona. I contacted the adviser, went over my credits and sent transcripts! I even talked to the Director of the program and was signed up. Barely a month before moving out there to attend school I got a call. Requirements had been reworded. no longer did you need to be an EMT for a year before being enrolled. you needed to work as an EMT for a year before being enrolled. So After I was ACCEPTED, I was told I no longer qualified for the program and was dropped. I was not given my 50 dollar registration fee back.
I met with an advisor today. The nursing program has a rule that any math or science classes (regardless of grade recieved) must be completed within 3 years of the program start date. the program application date is 9 months before the start date and all prereqs must be completed before applying. so that means... well here, it's more impressive when you do the math. I have 73 credit hours completed. can you guess how many will transfer into this program? 0
so thats 5 institutions that I have been admitted to. 3 of them fucked me and 1 I couldn't stand.
Par for the course i guess.
Now it wouldn't be the absolute worst thing in the world if it weren't for a stupid rule. see, I could handle a 24 credit course load of courses I've already received A's in. Heck, I wouldn't even have to go to class, I could just email in all my assignments and never have to study. except for a stupid rule. You have to take these classes in a specific order. which mean, i would have to go to classes I've already taken, for the next year and a half. then wait 9 months, then enter the nursing program and spend 2.5 years there. so lets do some math again, i'm 23, i would be 24 by the time i would start the first classes. so 1.5+.75+2.5= roughly 5 years! i would be 29! that's after me already taking 2.5 years worth of college. But lots of people go to school for 7 years, THEY'RE CALLED DOCTORS! and they have letters after their name! they don't have a shitty associates degree!
