The next few paragraphs are going to be about how my personal experience with community college is going, so leave if you must but you are more than welcome to stay and read.
Hello readers, it's been quite a while since I've posted about school or about my life in general. Nothing has changed other than starting my second semester of my Sophomore year at community college! I really can't believe my second year is nearly half way through. There are so many things that I've learned since starting like how to make a resume, history of music, history and drawing classes (art), and now I'm in a class that teaches how to keep up with your personal finance.
Last semester (Fall) I took five classes (about 13-14 credit hours) and really did a great job with keeping up on things. The matter of the fact is that last year was way more productive than this year to be completely honest. This year I have 6 credit hours (3 classes) and I have gotten very lazy. Not to say that the break is nice, but I love to be pushed to my limits and see just how far I can go. I like to be under pressure and I never knew that about myself until last semester. I do well under stress! Who knew? So anyway, I'm learning about myself and about all these interesting things in classes that I never knew were possible. Right now in my Personal Finance class that I'm taking I've been playing a game (wall street survivor) and it is surprisingly addictive. It's all the buff of the actual stock markets for the real world but you get to play with fake money. I've never been so interested in stock marketing and what stock was best for when and how long I think I can hold on to it and see how much money I can make. Some of the stocks are safe and others are risky. One day your market investment could be up to $4,000 and the next day it could be gone.
Other than Personal Finance, I'm in my second part of Digital Imaging and it is very fast paced. Currently we have been working on little things, but the class has joined together from last semester because the time for this class is 4 hours long. If you can imagine sitting at a computer in the dark listening and following along to demonstrations from a projector for four hours...yeah. Usually we only get a 10 minute break after we finish our first hour, and then we get to work when we come back and don't stand up again until three hours later. To say the least, I'm glad that I have a math class afterwards because after the 'artistic' flow of things I can concentrate on math better (using both sides of the brain).
So, this is pretty much it for right now. I may possibly take a few courses during the summer while I work part or full time, and I plan on saving back some money (with some of the money saving methods I'm learning) and save for a trip to Portland, Oregon! That's on of my dream destinations. A girl in my class that I sit beside began talking to me one day and we got on the topic of traveling and it ends up she's been to Portland, Oregon before and says it's quite beautiful. I look forward to seeing it one day :) Even if it takes me until I'm 30 years old, I will safe every cent that I can to make it. I finally have some life goals, and they look ever so sweet!
I hope everyone has a really great week and weekend! If you are in way of snow (or if snow is just a usual for you) then be safe! Have fun! And I will catch you on the flip side.
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