Going back to school

I've just started my first class in the official 'going back to school' phase of my life, and I kept thinking as time went on that I need to blog this.

Let me start with some background, to put all of this in context. I'm 34, single, no kids, living in San Diego. I have two dogs and a cat and a couple of roommates, but I own my own place. I went to college right out of high school, two of them actually, and just couldn't do it due to health reasons.

I've worked different jobs over the years, spent time unemployed and not worried about it, but I'm finally at the point where I want a career. I thought I had one a few years ago but it ended up being a dead end thing. That and corporate politics just pissed me off enough that I left.

I finally got my Associates Degree last August (yeah!) and decided it was time to bite the bullet and get that degree that actually means something when looking for a 'real job'. I realized that I need to have real sellable skills to get the kind of job I want, so here I am.

I am enrolled at National University in the online Computer Science program, though their setup is a bit different. They do one class a month, just that one class, but you wrap a whole semester in a month, so far it's been a little intense. Of course it's been about a week, but still.

I chose to go online because it seems to work with my personal internal schedule better. I am very much not a morning person and being able to log in whenever during the day seems to elicit better grades and more learning from me. That along with the one class a month things, eliminating my short attention span issues, I am feeling very confident about this program all around.

This blog will be documenting this return to school, my amazement at the new advances in pretty much everything academic, and if nothing else a place for me to vent about schoolwork.