I have school tonight, so in a few minutes I’ll jump in the Mini and head off north to Fort Orange and college…When will this end? I am very close, so close as to smell the ink on my diploma, yet the college is holding me up over a technicality: They will not accept any of my credits (not to mention the Associates Degree) from my previous school because it is a “technical college”. What horseshit. If I had spent two years in the army and learned how to kill…But I’ve said all this before. How boring.
I panicked this morning when I realized I hadn’t finished my homework for my “Page to Stage” course. I scrambled and had that and a re-write for my thesis statement done in about 2 1/2 hours. Too close for my comfort.
Mom is doing very well this morning. The exhaustion she has felt seems to have just gone away. Tomorrow she gets a check-up from the MD…
My school has changed so much since I first enrolled, and not in a good way. It has become a place for bean counters and people whose asses expand as they sit for hours on end in their office chairs and eat donuts and chocolate. Not that I have anything against any of those pastimes, but mixed together they are a bad thing. Gone are the days of Knowledge for the Sake of Learning. Most pof the current students are there to get one or two courses and move up the executive ladder. Each to his own, I suppose. Live and Let Live. Que sera, sera…Blahblahblah. I have 24 credits left to complete, provided the school sucks it up and gives me the credits I am asking for. I am finished with my required courses…well over, actually. The rest of my time will be electives.
I hope.
Johnnyboy
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Oh, I know and loathe those moments when you suddenly realize that some assignment wasn’t done that is due very shortly. Nothing like scrambling!
I hope the credit situation is resolved soon.
I know that ESC will only accept credit from regionally accredited colleges, but can’t you still write CBE essays and get credit that way?
Also, I know that this is not what you want to hear, but I think there is value in not doing CBE or transferring credits. I myself could have transferred way more credits than I did. My first thought was to transfer the full 96 to which I was entitled and just take 32 credits in photography, but as I worked on my DP, I realized that I had so much to learn in the arts. One woman in my group took every CLEP test on the planet so she could acculmulate tons of credits that way, but it’s not the same as an ESC study. It seems to me that many people who opt for CBE or credits by CLEP are trying to get through ESC as quickly as possible, which I can understand in some cases, but isn’t this the very attitude you criticize in your post?
Thanks Liz, and you are right on all points. I have written the CBE for this, but ESC screwed up and assigned me an evaluator that didn’t comply with their idea of a full report, so as a result I am the one who has top go through this process again. I am also only asking for 12 credits. Not so much. Considering the quantity of study groups (which I prefer) or even talented faculty is dwindling, my options for study shrink as well. I have become very disappointed in the school over the past year. It is not the school I enrolled in back in the fall of 2005. In my mind it has gone downhill.
That’s interesting…maybe this also varies by location? At Metro, it seems they are always trying to encourage the study groups, while I prefer independent study. Hmm.
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