One time!
Did I mention that I only need to go to class once? Thanks to the Virtual College of Texas and my local community college, Blinn, I can take this class virtually. Or rather, in my comfortable living room.
Trough VCT you can take all kinds of classes. For instance, the following classes are offered through VCT and a local community college:
- Accounting (who wants to attend class for that?)
- Anthropology (I guess to give you more time to experience it rather than sitting in a classroom like a light bulb)
- Chemistry (you do the labs in your house... no kidding!)
- Crime in America (I hope there’s no lab for this one!)
- All sorts of computer programming
- All sorts of literature
- All sorts of history
I had no idea this was even available until earlier in the summer. I stumbled across it while looking up ideas on getting some of pre-reqs finished. I think this is great!
The biggest bummer for this particular course is the class. The single day of class is my lab. Since the provider college is Galveston College, which I didn’t even know existed VCT was discovered, I must travel there. But since its the lab, this is where I get to play with the cool physics toys and build things. Being a family man and always looking to incorporate my family into my travels, I figure we’d all go to Galveston. So, while my family enjoys the beach, I will spend 12 hours in a classroom playing physics.
To top it off, m wife’s mom knows a lady with a beach house in Bolivar. So, we’ll stay there and make a full weekend out of it. Sound fun???
The biggest downside that I see to this is the amount of discipline that will be required to study the material at home. I mean, I could choose to watch a movie, or read a book, or surf the Internet or practice my blogging in hopes of becoming a pro. But instead, with God’s patience and the fruit of the spirit, (you know the last one, self-control) I will have ability to study.
WOW... what a glorious age in which we live!
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