For some reason, the university’s Blackboard system has decided I’m not registered for any classes this semester, so I haven’t been able to check the final grades on my last two assignments.
However, overall grades, transcripts, and other administrative trivia are kept on a different system, and my professor has updated that system with the final grade in my “Applications in Business Programming” class (aka “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Building Stuff in Visual Basic 2010, But Were Afraid to Ask”).
And? Well, we’ve got a theme going, let’s stick with it.
(Once again, from the great “Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons” site.)
Yeah. that was an A. 4.0 is still alive, baby.
I’ve had some preliminary conversations with my academic advisor. When the time comes (probably March 2012) assuming that I manage to hold things together this fall, I should be able to roll right into grad school without taking the GRE or GMAT. The university offers a night and weekend grad program that ends up with a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. All I’ll need to roll straight in is a better than 3.2 GPA, and two references from professors at the University. (I already have two professors who have told me, “Any time you need a letter of reference or recommendation for anything, come see me; I will be more than happy to do that for you.”)
We’re getting down to the wire. (But not “The Wire”. Though Stringer Bell’s “there’s games beyond the f—ing game” may have some relevance here.) Two more semesters, four more classes. Next fall is “20th Century, Triumph and Tragedies”. I need three more credit hours of history, and this class is being taught by the same professor who taught “Modern Revolutions”. (That professor is also one of the two professors I’ve mentioned above.) Also on the schedule, as my “elective” (as in, “I need three credit hours of an elective”) is a course called “Constitutional Criminal Procedure”. Quoting from the catalog:
An examination of the United States Supreme Court’s interpretations of the constitutional requirements relating to probable cause, arrest, search and seizure, stop and frisk, the exclusionary rule, the plain view doctrine, electronic surveillance, post custodial interrogation, and confessions.
That should be fun. (Have I mentioned that I’m flirting with the idea of taking the LSAT? I’m not giving a lot of serious thought to going to law school at the moment, but I’m curious to see how I’d do.)
, or, as the Posties put it “The book the SEALs read”. We were previously unaware of Admiral McRaven’s book, but plan to order a copy today.