Jul. 22, 2008 - Our Great College Adventure
Registering DD for College
DD has been registered for college for about 2 weeks today. It was quite an adventure. We got her applied, counseled, tested, advised, registered, and all paid up in 3 days. We made 4 trips to our local community college ( 30 minute drive) in 3 days, once in a downpour. We even have purchased most of her books. Talk about a hit in the pocketbook.  Her books were a little over $400. We still have 2 books to purchase. OUCH!
DD was really, really scared about the whole process. She kept saying it is happening to fast. I was glad it was happening so fast. She didn't have much time to dwell on everything. She was rebellious enough with having too much time to think about it. Everything worked out well. I just left everything in the Lord's capable hands and trusted him to work everything out the way it was suppose to be.
She aced most of the testing. She made a 98 on the reading and writing test. She quailfied to start in the pre-cal class and another calculus type class. Her advisor told her she was 1 of about 10 students in the her 10 years there, to test into that high of math classes. That made DD feel very good. I was impressed and as the teacher, I patted myself on the back. She failed the computer part. It wasn't a big deal. She could take it again and did so the next day and passed. I called and asked my BIL who has an assoicate degree in computers for helped. I told hm what DD had missed and he said that was off the wall stuff that nobody used.
DD will be taking Western Civilization I, an expository writing class, college algebra, Local & State Government, and a fluff money-making course called "College Success." Most of the classes are internet courses. She will have to go to the college on Tuesday and Thursday, for the fluff course for an hour. Her writing class is a hybrid which means she has to go to the college on Tuesday for an hour & a half and the rest of the work will be done on the internet. All that means is on Tuesday, she will be at the college for 3 and half hours and on Thursday for a hour. It was a good compromise between what her daddy wanted and what she wanted.
After we bought her books, we sat down and looked at them. Her Western Civilization book is a hoot. The first 2 chapters were full of evolution. The rest of the book was filled with radical feminism, planned parenthood proganda, socialism, humanism and all manner of liberalism. We sat DD down and told her, she knew the truth and if she ever had any questions or doubts about something a professor said, to ask us and we would help her find the truth. We told her not to argue with them because it was pretty much pointless, because most college professors didn't want to hear the truth. We told her to read the material. Answer the questions according to the book and according to what they wanted to hear. DH said we may have to deprogram her every day. So, please pray for her and us, as she enters this hostile atomsphere. Pray that she stands firm in her faith. Pray that we will have the answers to combat the junk she will be hearing. If anyone else's children are entering college, please know our prayers are with you and your child.
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