Online Classes

Going to school again at 34. Shall I say that is ambitious, lucky (not everyone has the time or financial resources to return to school in adulthood), or just plain masochistic?

So I am taking accounting and macroeconomics classes at a local junior college. Actually it really doesn't matter whether this college is local or not because I am taking the classes online.

Online classes, what a brand new concept after going to college the conventional way for so many years. At first I thought online courses would be a walk in the park, like child play. Boy, was I wrong. Not only are the tests harder because they are "open book," we are practically teaching ourselves the subjects with minimum guidance! (You have the option to go to class and set up appointments with your professors, but that'd defeat the whole purpose of "online" classes!)

Here's my thought on the two classes after my first month as a returning student.

Accounting: it's like reading the lengthy instruction manual to an seemingly interesting video game. I enjoy the number-crunching part (yes, I do realize how horrible that sound as I am typing it), but to get to the number-crunching part, one will have to first read through the dry and boring chapters (the instructions).

Economics: pages after pages it's like "stating the obvious." "There are demands and supplies." Duh! "When demands are higher than supplies, the prices go up." Ya think? "Technological advancement enhances growth." No sh*t!

And then I learned it the hard way that reading pages and pages of "duhs" and "no sh*ts" doesn't necessarily guarantee an A. So it's studying, studying, and more studying. I only wish I was half as studious the first time I did this college thing... =.=