MidwestBeast
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Yesterday, I registered for 2 classes. I haven't been in the classroom in over 2 years and I haven't been in an undergraduate class since the Spring of 2007. This is pretty crazy, haha.
This is something I'd been thinking about and planning on doing for a while, but I just kept putting it off. I've recently had a real change in my attitude and I am no longer letting time and opportunities pass by. My undergrad work is in broadcasting and my graduate work is in communication (mostly theory based). One of the perks of working in higher education is free classes. I've worked with my university for 2 years now and had been caught up in wrapping up so many other things (and planning to move virtually the entire time) that I just kept putting this off. It's the same thing I'd done with a lot of areas of my life, using the thought process of "once I'm settled in where I'll be for the long-haul." Well, who knows when that'll be. Hopefully it won't be too far off, but I can't keep wasting these years waiting to do what I want to do.
It has been my dream for several years to have a side business to my day job at the university doing nutrition and fitness consultation. So, a goal of mine for a while, has been to become a registered dietitian. Because my coursework was predominantly in arts, I lack a large portion of the science basics. So, this upcoming January, I will be taking intro to human nutrition and intro to chemistry.
I've never taken an online class, but I'm taking the nutrition course online, since I'm hoping a majority of it is stuff I already know and what I don't shouldn't be too different from my normal style of learning by finding my own resources and studying them. Now chem, on the other hand, I would not fathom doing that with lol. I haven't taken chem since high school, so I very well may be referring to some of my favorite AM friends for help in understanding areas I have hiccups in. The good thing is at this point in my life, I actually enjoy learning and not just trying to get an A. So, I'll be picking up my books within a week or so and starting to read them in advance since I'm a nerd like that.
I'm trying to take classes that should transfer into any dietetics program, because I plan on moving back up closer to family, still, but don't want to keep wasting time waiting around. The pace I'll be working at (to keep my classes covered by work) is 2 classes every semester (so 6 a year). It should take me about 5 years to pick up all the requirements since this will be a second bachelor's degree (it's kind of depressing that I could finish a doctorate program or 2 master's degrees in the time it'll take me to do this lol, but it's where my passion lies). Another cool thing is that I can take one class each semester during work hours without having to make them up. It's one of the HR incentives. So, I get to go to work, dip out for an hour to go take a class and then go back to work and not stay any later. Gotta take advantage of the good things in higher ed
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So that ends my attempt to harass my AM brethren whenever I have idiot chem questions, but let's hear about you guys. Is anyone else going back to school? Anyone pursuing a separate or entirely different career path? I know there are a few "What's your major?" threads on here that get into this a bit, but I'm more curious about guys (and gals!) who are making a change in their lives (even if it's like me and not an entire change, just something else to do).
This is something I'd been thinking about and planning on doing for a while, but I just kept putting it off. I've recently had a real change in my attitude and I am no longer letting time and opportunities pass by. My undergrad work is in broadcasting and my graduate work is in communication (mostly theory based). One of the perks of working in higher education is free classes. I've worked with my university for 2 years now and had been caught up in wrapping up so many other things (and planning to move virtually the entire time) that I just kept putting this off. It's the same thing I'd done with a lot of areas of my life, using the thought process of "once I'm settled in where I'll be for the long-haul." Well, who knows when that'll be. Hopefully it won't be too far off, but I can't keep wasting these years waiting to do what I want to do.
It has been my dream for several years to have a side business to my day job at the university doing nutrition and fitness consultation. So, a goal of mine for a while, has been to become a registered dietitian. Because my coursework was predominantly in arts, I lack a large portion of the science basics. So, this upcoming January, I will be taking intro to human nutrition and intro to chemistry.
I've never taken an online class, but I'm taking the nutrition course online, since I'm hoping a majority of it is stuff I already know and what I don't shouldn't be too different from my normal style of learning by finding my own resources and studying them. Now chem, on the other hand, I would not fathom doing that with lol. I haven't taken chem since high school, so I very well may be referring to some of my favorite AM friends for help in understanding areas I have hiccups in. The good thing is at this point in my life, I actually enjoy learning and not just trying to get an A. So, I'll be picking up my books within a week or so and starting to read them in advance since I'm a nerd like that.
I'm trying to take classes that should transfer into any dietetics program, because I plan on moving back up closer to family, still, but don't want to keep wasting time waiting around. The pace I'll be working at (to keep my classes covered by work) is 2 classes every semester (so 6 a year). It should take me about 5 years to pick up all the requirements since this will be a second bachelor's degree (it's kind of depressing that I could finish a doctorate program or 2 master's degrees in the time it'll take me to do this lol, but it's where my passion lies). Another cool thing is that I can take one class each semester during work hours without having to make them up. It's one of the HR incentives. So, I get to go to work, dip out for an hour to go take a class and then go back to work and not stay any later. Gotta take advantage of the good things in higher ed
.So that ends my attempt to harass my AM brethren whenever I have idiot chem questions, but let's hear about you guys. Is anyone else going back to school? Anyone pursuing a separate or entirely different career path? I know there are a few "What's your major?" threads on here that get into this a bit, but I'm more curious about guys (and gals!) who are making a change in their lives (even if it's like me and not an entire change, just something else to do).
