Never tell me the odds
Summer III classes started this week. Summer III is a 5 week session for crazy people who don’t like nice weather and vacations. I’m am taking two classes, intro to programming C++ and Government II. Originally I had scheduled to take intro to computers because I have to have it. For those of you who know some of the jobs I done for the past 10 years know, that was going to be a hard class for me. There was a big danger of me yelling “No, you are stupid and wrong” to the teacher. However the gods smiled on me and one of my classes from TCU covered that requirement. Hence, I am spending Monday-Thursday nights in classes.
By the end of the summer I will be a sophomore once again. Which begs the question how much longer do I have to go to school? Well I have two goals. One is to get an Associates of Science in Computer Science Field of Study at Collin County College. Two is a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, perhaps from UTD. Let’s start with that Associates degree, at the end of summer I will have 25 of 51 hours completed. Taking 3 classes winter and spring and 2 during summer that is 24 a year. Make it a round year and a half to be safe. That puts me done by end of winter 2007, not too bad. Bachelor of Science is a ways off. It takes 124 hours of which I will have 51 complete. Again, taking 3 classes winter and spring and 2 during summer that is 24 a year. That is a little over 3 more years. With some wiggle room that is spring 2011.
I will be 42 years old and that is if I pass every one of my classes. Sometimes, it does not pay to do the math.