College life

Already onto day two. I'm proud of myself. Anyways, after finishing my latin exam earlier today and finishing up this spring semester, I had to go over to the book store and drop $113 on my math textbook for the summer semester. Which starts in roughly a week. Maybe ten days. But it was then that I realized how insanely stupid I had been with my education and if I could, it would be the one thing that I would change about my life.

I dicked around the first few semesters, taking the 'fun' classes for my degree and a sometimes just pure elective courses that I wanted to take. But I never stopped going to class. That has never been an issue. I even did some online classes for two semesters and except for math, did very well in them. Luckily they actually helped in attaining my degree. So there's the first two years of my college life and I'm only sixteen. Of course, it should only take two years to attain an associate's degree so I'm already behind. Then next year was spent taking 18 and 19 credit loads attached with 'fun' classes and the required gen ed courses. It was horrid.I basically became a full and a half time student for about a year.

And look at where I am now. I just finished up a part-time semester, the first one in about a year and a half. And I am taking summer courses just to make up for it.

I realized that if I was smart, I wouldn't have stressed myself out with high course loads and trying to scramble to make my schedule fit around having to take certain classes. What should've been happening from at least my first 'real' semester back was take the 'fun' degree classes, take as many as you want. Then do gen ed's during the winter and summer sessions. If all goes as planned, I will be completely done with every math class I will ever have to take in roughly ten weeks. TEN WEEKS TO MATHEMATICAL FREEDOM! I've spent years trying to get there and all it would've required of me was to sacrifice two hours out of my day for a month. And this would all be over.

So kudo's to me for finally making sense of this whole education thing right when it probably won't do me any good. Though I am transferring to a different school and I may need to spend another three and half years figuring out that system.