UPDATE! 2012

As I write this, the date is August 24, 2012, 2:18pm, Central Daylight Time.  I'm posting this from Jefferson City, Missouri.

Much has happened since my last blog entries.  I attended an online business school called Jones International University, and was doing okay for a while.  I had problems with time management, and after much thought, decided to drop the program.  I also decided that I wanted a school with more focus on computer science and information technology.

I stopped attending Jones in March, 2012.  I decided to take the summer off, reconnoiter the various options available to me--both online *and* local--and decide on something by October, 2012 at the latest.

Some of the online schools I have been considering are:

1)  Colorado Technical University (offices in Colorado, online offices in Chicago [go figure on that one]).  This school has the advantage of having all their classes recorded on video or audio, so it works well with people who are 'truly working daily', and need that format.

[Insert Others Here]


Local offerings are Lincoln University and Columbia College, which has a branch campus in town.  Columbia's main campus is in Columbia, Missouri, 30 miles north of here.  I'm wanting to keep any commute local, and do not wish another 50 mile drive (25 both ways) as happened when I attended Linn State Technical College.

I'm going to face a slew of problems if I don't have the full belief that I will ultimately succeed.  I'm just on the edge of pulling myself up from below a recently explored "cliff of the dangers of despondency, depression, and despair", and I do not wish to go back down, Thank You Very Much! :-)

I'm not percolating any pipe dreams of completing my education.  I figure I can attain that goal if I choose the proper area of interest, one that will make me employable, and that will enhance my self-esteem during the process.  Emotionally, I consider myself, at this time, "Reasonably Stable".  It's been an up-and-down kind of summer, and the heat hasn't helped this former Northern Michigan Boy, either.  (Man, I wish it was about 60!)