School

I just finished my summer class. I feel like I did well on the final but I only needed a 53% to get an A. I can't believe how fast this class flew by! I now have 36 hours left to my Bachelor's degree. I am studying Human Resource Management. When I graduate in Spring of 2013 (I am only going part-time since I have to work full-time) it will have taken me 14 years to obtain my degree.

I graduated from high school in 1999. I was accepted into the University of Oklahoma and went for my first year in college. I came from a high school of 96 graduates and all of the sudden I was thrust into classes with almost more people than my high school. It was a HUGE change for me and I didn't like it. I really struggled there. Plus, I lived in the dorms because my parents made me and I wasn't happy about it. I lived close enough to commute but my mother wanted me to have the "experience." Don't get me wrong...I met some great people, but I didn't want to live there.

After my summer Chemistry class I found out I was going to have to have my gall bladder out so I withdrew from my classes and took that semester off...which turned into a couple of semesters. I finally enrolled back at the local community college where I changed majors three times before finally completing an Associates degree in Business. At that point I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I chose to not go to school until I figured it out. That was 2004. It wasn't until 2010 that I stepped foot back in a school.

I finally decided that HR was were I wanted to be and I started researching my options. The University of Central Oklahoma seemed like a good match so I applied. I was accepted and after getting advised found out that I only had 51 hours to graduate (I was thinking more along the lines of 70+.) Yay! So far, I have made As in all of my classes and am looking forward to the upcoming semester. First, I am taking an online intersession that starts tomorrow and ends 10 days later. Then I will take 6 hours in the fall. After that it will be 9 in the spring, 3 in the summer, 9 in the fall and 9 in the spring. I am hoping some of those could be intersessions! I could also try to do 2 8-week courses and 2 more 8-week courses. We will see how it pans out when the schedules come out! All I know is that I am ready to be done! Of course, if I suddenly come into a large amount of money I will quite working and go full-time and be done even faster! Anybody want to donate to my cause? ;-)