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For lack of another subject I’m going to post about CLEP tests and my trip to Fresno.
As most of you know I’m working on getting my bachelors degree through CollegePlus by accelerated distance learning.
CollegePlus has their students take a test (CLEP, DANTE, or etc…) every 2 weeks (3 weeks for hard exams); thus the students have 10 days to study for each test to get 3 college units. My Coach (Kristin) says that I should study 4-5 hours a day.
Do you know how hard it is to study that long???
I’m in my room trying to study with the door shut and my siblings and parents come in and disturb me saying such things as: “I’m getting a book” “did you feed the dogs” “I want to pet MY cat” (the little sisters cat that likes me)” “where did you put so and so”, the list goes on and on…and on. I tried putting a sign on the door that says “DO NOT DISTURB!!! College class in progress” it didn’t/doesn’t work *sigh*.
I can be my own distractions too, my mind wandering, I fall asleep (did that twice), I pet the cat that comes and sits on my book or computer instead of pushing it off, I check my email, I surf the internet, I pick up that interesting book, I play with my hair, etc…etc….
I’m not used to studying that much; I take breaks but 5 hours is still a long time.
Well now that you know what I go through I’ll inform you(if you didn’t know, and bore you if you did) that for the last 5 weeks I’ve been studying for the U.S. History 1 & 2 CLEP tests. I intended to do the 2 week thing but when I called the 5 nearest testing center, a week before I wanted the test, the earliest date was 3 1/2 weeks away. Since I had so much time, I decided to shoot for 2 tests.
Well, I took the tests yesterday.
I got up at the bright and early hour of 6:20am *shudders*(I’m not an early riser), drowsily ate breakfast, grabbed my study guide books, and climbed into the car. My mother had the joy of driving me 2 hour to the testing center. On the 2 hour ride I was reviewing and muttering to myself “St Augustine, Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts bay colony”, “Franklin D. Roosevelt-New Deal, Harry S. Truman –Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy-New Frontier, Lyndon B. Johnson-Great Society” and “WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Cold War” and also "When?", "Why?, and "WHAT???".
We arrived on time at the University of Phoenix, they have a nice new facility. When we went in the guy at the counter told us that the computers were acting up and that it would be a few minutes, he then pointed us to the drink counter where there was hot chocolate, coffee, and tea and said it was free (because of grand opening, according to the sign). Being nervous I decided to wait until after I had finished 1 test before indulging in chocolate. I then went up to the 2nd floor (it was a 5-6 story building) to their little testing room that had 4 computers. I then went through a nice little tutorial before the U.S. History 1 test on, and I quote “How to use a mouse”, I also “learned” “How to scroll” and other such elementary computer functions before taking the test.
This post is getting about 400 times longer than I intended it to be, so I’ll summarize more.
I passed U.S. History 1, went downstairs drank a cup of hot chocolate and a glass of water, went upstairs skipped through “How to use a mouse” and passed U.S. History 2.
My mother was waiting for me when I went downstairs after passing U.S. History 2 (she had gone shopping). We then went to Nordstrom’s Rack outlet store and jumped for joy when we discovered that they had extended their women’s size 12 and 13 shoe sections. We bought a couple of pairs of shoes. We then went to In-n-Out, met a talkative Texan who told us that he was “tryin out them hamburgers” he also said they didn’t have In-N-Out’s in Texas. Then we drove home.
One of the things I learned in studying U.S. History is that some of the presidents and historical people have been trumped up to be great guys who do smart things when they really aren’t and don't.
Another thing I learned is that a lot of stupid decisions were made but nobody admits it they just smooth over it.
Now, I’ll drown you in quotes.
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ~Richard Reeves
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~Author Unknown
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. ~Philip Wylie
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. ~Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~Thomas Jefferson
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
-Napoleon
”Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
-Woodrow Wilson
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.
-Ronald Reagan
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~Martin H. Fischer
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker
Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
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There you are Goose. If you ever ask for another post BeWaRe, I will bore you again.
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