Archive for the ‘Education / Learning’ Category
What’s this? A post?!?!?
That’s right my friends, a new post after a year and 3 months of nothing. Recent ideas rekindled my interest in this site. As I’m heading off to the gym in a few minutes I don’t have time for a major update, but here are a few high points that occurred during my off time:
- Graduated from college with an AS in Business Administration in April ‘07.
- Sentenced to probation with community service and restitution for my past crimes in April ‘07
- Landed a web development job in November ‘07.
In: Education / Learning, Goals, Health & Fitness, My Websites
The End Of Another Semester, The Beginning Of Vacation
Today marked my last day of school in the fall semester. I’m not sure what my grades were for all of my classes but I expect that my overall GPA will be at least 3.8. More importantly I am now on vacation until January 22, 2007. I now have plenty of free time to pursue other interests such as polyphasic sleep, cooking experiments, my new website, and more. Watch for posts in the near future addressing each of these topics.
The spring semester will be my last at Monroe Community College. I’ll be graduating with AS degrees in business administration and computer science. I’ll be applying to “real” colleges soon to pursue a BS with a double major in economics and finance or something else business related. My target school is Columbia, with the University of Rochester as one backup. I believe my other backup will be George Washington University but I’m not 100% on that yet.
In: Education / Learning
I Never Thought I’d Say This…
…but I miss engineers. Let me explain. I’m back in school, attending a local community college. While the school itself is pretty good, especially for the cost, many of the people there are not. Maybe I’m just used to hanging out with engineers and geeks, but I’ve found a lot of people in my major (business administration) aren’t really the kind of people I like. Too many jocks and people from the high school “popular crowd.” You know the type. The ones who care more about what they look like and what the latest celebrity gossip is than what a standard deviation is. Mindless automatons that try their hardest to follow what everyone else is doing rather than thinking for themselves. Sure, there are a minority of students that aren’t like that, people like me who care what is going on in class and not about getting their hat cocked at the perfect angle.
End of School Week 1
Today marked the last day of my first week back in school. So far I’m enjoying it. Most of the topics are interrelated (intro to business, accounting 1, microeconomics) so that makes studying much easier. I think that all of the classes will improve my ability to evaluate stocks and currency which should increase my trading ability.
In: Education / Learning
School!
In about 6 hours I will be back in college, earning my business administration A.S. degree. It seems quite strange to me at this point that I am returning to school. I plan on earning my living trading and investing, so why go back to school? Well, there are a number of great reasons.
1. Grant Money! As I mentioned in a previous entry federal and state grants are paying for my eduaction. Not only that, I’m getting quite a bit back for living expenses. I’m planning on depositing that money straight into an investment account, either in a stock/options account or forex.
In: Education / Learning
Back To School
Ah college. That place where too many people waste away drinking alcohol, staying up too late, and pursuing a piece of paper to get a job. At least that’s how I perceived it when I was in school. Get good grades, graduate with a diploma, get a “good” job, etc.
I’ve since realized that college should have nothing to do with getting a diploma or a job. If you think the way I used to then you’ve fallen into the rat race trap. The original intention of higher education was to expand the individual’s thinking and reasoning. It had nothing to do with getting a job and everything to do personal growth.
In: Education / Learning, Philosophy
