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I swear, college is the absolute stupidest fucking thing ever.
Okay, so I've finally gotten things mostly taken care of, for my classes. I just today got my financial aid check, so I just now ordered my books. Not thrilled about it being so late, but I can't do anything about that. And that's not what I'm here to rant about, anyway.
Why am I ranting, you ask? Well it's this. Several of my online classes are now available through Blackboard, so I was poking around them, reading the syllabi, etc. And during the course of doing that, I discovered something. All the ones I looked at require at least one (sometimes more!) proctored exams. That means I have to go to campus.
What the everloving fuck, guys! Seriously!
The ENTIRE POINT of an online program is that I DO NOT have to come to campus! Both campuses are in Kentucky; I live in Illinois! Besides that being something like 4-5 hours away, I work full time! I'll have to miss work (and thus lose pay) to go take these stupid tests. Probably multiple times, since it's doubtful that I'll manage to schedule them all for one day. (Yeah, you have to talk to someone and actually *schedule* it. You can't just show up.)
I just...this just makes me so fucking angry. It's like it's been one thing after another with this BS. I swear to God, if it wasn't practically impossible to get any sort of decent career without a degree, I'd throw my hands up and say to hell with it all. But I don't really have a choice; I have to have a degree. But I just want to scream right about now.
Raaaaaaaaaage.
Okay, so I've finally gotten things mostly taken care of, for my classes. I just today got my financial aid check, so I just now ordered my books. Not thrilled about it being so late, but I can't do anything about that. And that's not what I'm here to rant about, anyway.
Why am I ranting, you ask? Well it's this. Several of my online classes are now available through Blackboard, so I was poking around them, reading the syllabi, etc. And during the course of doing that, I discovered something. All the ones I looked at require at least one (sometimes more!) proctored exams. That means I have to go to campus.
What the everloving fuck, guys! Seriously!
The ENTIRE POINT of an online program is that I DO NOT have to come to campus! Both campuses are in Kentucky; I live in Illinois! Besides that being something like 4-5 hours away, I work full time! I'll have to miss work (and thus lose pay) to go take these stupid tests. Probably multiple times, since it's doubtful that I'll manage to schedule them all for one day. (Yeah, you have to talk to someone and actually *schedule* it. You can't just show up.)
I just...this just makes me so fucking angry. It's like it's been one thing after another with this BS. I swear to God, if it wasn't practically impossible to get any sort of decent career without a degree, I'd throw my hands up and say to hell with it all. But I don't really have a choice; I have to have a degree. But I just want to scream right about now.
Raaaaaaaaaage.
