First Semester at ACC

Well my first semester at ACC is coming to an end. It has been a weird one. From the get go I jumped in over my head into Pre-Calculus without having a math class in over 15 years (really..that long?). That professor was bad news from the get go. His withdrawl rate on Myedu.com was over 60%. Only gives about 10% of his remaining students A's so he is rather difficult to take.

The Into to C++ class has been fairly easy up to this point, but last week I waited until the last minute to get the homework and lab done and was up to 2am on Friday and had a 4 hour class at 8:30am on Saturday. It's been a long time since I done a late night of homework.

So far the plan is this (all plans subject to change of course), continue to take classes at ACC until I can get my associates degree in computer programming (13 classes, 7 of which count towards the computer science certificate at Texas State), then complete the remaining requirements (9 classes) at Texas State for the Computer Science Certificate (to qualify to grad school), then if I still have any drive, motivation, time,  or money left I'll try to take the 12 remaining classes for a Master's Degree in Computer Science. For now I am hoping just to learn new things and hopefully help me in my current career at work.

Next semester I am supposed to take Intro to Computing, but I am really surprised my previous class at Tech didn't qualify for this. I have the opportunity to test out of this class in a few weeks. I really hope I can do it. I purchased the book and have read the first 5 chapters so far and it is really easy, but I know things can be made to be more difficult than what it actually is.

I am also supposed to take C++ programming and Fundamentals of Networking. If cannot test out of Intro to Computing I will have to drop the Networking class. I think that 9 hours is a bit much while working full time. I was kicking it around, but I think I really shouldn't do it.

The other non-shocker was my out of district tuition. We knew that would happen, but neither of us knew it would be as much as it was. It quadrupled the price of tuition. That is really sad. I am thinking of starting the Pflugerville to join ACC Fan page on Facebook.  9 hours in district is $575. 9 hours out of district is $2100. All I can say is ouch!