Another one bites the dust

I get more joy from advancing those little School Progress bars on the right sidebar that you'd ever believe. On Thursday I went over to the mainland and took the Principles of Marketing CLEP exam, which wipes out another 3 lower level credits, and gives me a reason to mark that bar "100%" and move on forward.

Although my school records the grade on a pass/fail basis, the score I received is the equivalent of a B, which is not too damn shabby considering all I did was read a couple of study guides & memorize all the sample test questions provided. In a week or so, with my academic advisor's approval I'll select another one and add it to the list. Principles of Management? Intro to Sociology?

In the meanwhile, I need to get crackin' on the other courses.  Between the holiday fun and final cramming for the Marketing exam, both Spanish & Ethics have slipped a little but I know from past experience that it'll just take a few days of focused effort to get them back on track. Over the holidays I also added something to replace the stats class I finished in December - "Foundations of Gerontology". Great fun, yes indeedy.  

For reasons that are a mystery to me someone at the school thought it would be a good idea to take two separate reasonably-sized and reasonably-priced softcover textbooks and re-issue them as one great big fat honkin'  hardcover book, (2 1/2 inches thick!), bundle it with a very thin (literally) excuse for a study guide, and charge students a ridiculous amount of money. Oh yeah, that must the the reason...to make money.

Silly me.