Milestone

My finals are over.

These should be the last couple of classes I need for my associate of arts degree, And I passed these both with A's.

The British Literature final was over Pygmalion and Harry Potter and felt more like an AR (Accelerated Reader, a program in public schools to encourage reading) test. The questions were all over details and never any deeper than what you could read on the pages of the book. This makes sense because we didn't go very deep in class, either.

The US History final was little tougher. I spent an hour last night studying and did a little more this afternoon. The studying paid off with a 96 on the final itself, which covered mostly post-WWII but also included material back to Lincoln.

I talked to one of the advisors that works at Central Texas College today. She looked over my transcript and said that I had a few holes. One of the holes should be filled by AP scores that the main campus has. (Apparently, CTC and the "campus" here keep two separate sets of records.) The other hole is a basic computer proficiency course which was only offered once and filled up before I could take it. I told her I could easily demonstrate my computer skills - I worked as a graphic artist and did a bit of web design before incarceration. I just don't know that there is any way to get credit for knowing this stuff if I don't take the class.

Now I'm just waiting to hear what the solution is. Until then, I'm researching colleges to attend on release.