Career College Zone

As the full time worker and a mother of 2 kids, going back to school seems like an unrealistic dream. After all, there’s how could I possibly find the time to drive downtown to the university? Impossible.

But lately, I’ve been reading more and more about online education. Some online colleges offer everything from a degree in health care management to a psychopharmacology degree. It’s crazy how technology has completely changed every facet of our lives. Now, you can get a bachelor’s degree from your house!

My only question is this. Do online degrees carry the same weight as traditional ones? I know that in the past people kind of frowned down upon this kind of education, but now, even the big universities are offering online degree programs. I think it’s become a credible, widely accepted way to get your degree.

I need to read more about it because this is something that could really change my life. Going to school would be manageable; I’d still be able to spend time with my family; and I could earn my degree at my own pace. The bottom line is that I need a degree if I want to advance my career, and this is the only way I can do it.

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I know I am on my own.  My parents are not going to have my back.  I must determine a way to decrease college costs so when I graduate from high school this year I can afford college.

When the average person reads my above three sentences, they probably think that I am a screw-up and that my parents don’t want to waste their hard earned money on a child who will spend it all partying at the University of Texas.  The only part in that assumption that is true is I do want to be a Longhorn and go to school in Austin.  The rest of the assumptions are far from accurate.

I go to a large high school in Dallas.  In a graduating class of 457 students, I will graduate third in my class.  My SAT scores are impressive (if I do say so for myself) and I have received an academic scholarship.  The money from the scholarship however, will not be enough and what I had in mind for an expected family contribution doesn’t seem to be coming to fruition.

It seems I will need to work while in school.  I wish I could focus all my attention on studying and grades (with the occasional party) but I have to be able to afford tuition, room, and board.

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If I hear one more person sigh and say, “Well, you know, with this economy. . .”, I’m seriously going to blow my brains out.  My heartbeat doubles in speed daily, my palms sweat whenever I turn on the news.

Things seem to be going okay at work, but who knows when I’ll be forced to clean toilets at Starbucks and be impersonated by Tom Hanks.  At the rate things are spiraling out of control, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to retire, if I can afford to send my kid off to earn her health science masters where she’ll meet a nice Jewish doctor and live happily ever after.  This economy is costing me grandchildren.

And people are still saying we’ll be fine if only we had some tax cuts.  Bull.  An extra grand in my pocket isn’t going to do anything for me or anyone else in the country.  We need new industries.  Why can’t anyone in Congress realize that?  We need more American products and American people to stimulate this economy.  We need to legalize marijuana, prostitution, and gay marriage once and for all.

“But think of the children!  Think of the children!”  I am.  I am concerned that our children will be living in a third-world country unless we don’t create new sources of cash flow now.  You don’t want your children to smoke pot, sell their bodies, and marry that well-groomed guy from Banana Republic?  Then tell them not to!  The government isn’t raising my child, I am; I’ll be teaching her ethics, and I’ll be fighting my hardest to make sure she can attend the Arizona School of Health Sciences programs.

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