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Dinosaur to Bird: First Step, Growing Feathers
Big life-altering news of the good kind: starting tomorrow, I'm going to be a full-time student for a year's worth of professional programming and web graphic design at Clark University CCI, while Unemployment gives me enough money to pay my mortgage and utilities and shoestring necessities.
I feel like I won the lottery, even it's going to be the kind of prize where you have to work really really hard instead of sitting by the pool sipping Mai Tais.
The two courses of study I'll be taking are Enterprise Solutions Designer (C#, Java, XML, J2EE, Web Services) at night and Digital Media Designer (all flavors of Adobe, HTML, Flash, Premiere Pro - yes, vidding -- and 3D animation) on weekday mornings for a total of about 1600 in-class hours. Like I said, a lottery prize where you work really hard!
The visual media stuff is on weekday mornings 8:30 to 12:30, in Cambridge which is less than 2 miles away. The programming courses are in Woburn, about 10 miles away, and are structured for working students, so it's 6 to 10 on Tuesday and Thursdays and every other Saturday. So it's definitely going to be busy, but at least do-able. Because of the way the courses are structured, I'll basically be working on only two subjects at a time, which will help me concentration-wise.
It doesn't hurt that I really like the subject matter of what I'll be doing, truly.
And really: I'm starting tomorrow! Which surprises and pleases me, because since the clock is ticking on my benefits, that's all to the good to get started, but the timing couldn't have worked out any better. I got to talk to a counselor this afternoon -- intending to only information-gather -- and by 3 PM the train was gathering steam, when I found out that I could piggy-back these two certificate programs for the cost of one, and also qualify for a special reduced-tuition scheme because of the Unemployment program.
So while I'm going to be on a tight leash money-wise, I should be able to get by while I get some really good qualifications.
I feel like I won the lottery, even it's going to be the kind of prize where you have to work really really hard instead of sitting by the pool sipping Mai Tais.
The two courses of study I'll be taking are Enterprise Solutions Designer (C#, Java, XML, J2EE, Web Services) at night and Digital Media Designer (all flavors of Adobe, HTML, Flash, Premiere Pro - yes, vidding -- and 3D animation) on weekday mornings for a total of about 1600 in-class hours. Like I said, a lottery prize where you work really hard!
The visual media stuff is on weekday mornings 8:30 to 12:30, in Cambridge which is less than 2 miles away. The programming courses are in Woburn, about 10 miles away, and are structured for working students, so it's 6 to 10 on Tuesday and Thursdays and every other Saturday. So it's definitely going to be busy, but at least do-able. Because of the way the courses are structured, I'll basically be working on only two subjects at a time, which will help me concentration-wise.
It doesn't hurt that I really like the subject matter of what I'll be doing, truly.
And really: I'm starting tomorrow! Which surprises and pleases me, because since the clock is ticking on my benefits, that's all to the good to get started, but the timing couldn't have worked out any better. I got to talk to a counselor this afternoon -- intending to only information-gather -- and by 3 PM the train was gathering steam, when I found out that I could piggy-back these two certificate programs for the cost of one, and also qualify for a special reduced-tuition scheme because of the Unemployment program.
So while I'm going to be on a tight leash money-wise, I should be able to get by while I get some really good qualifications.
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http://lol.ianloic.com/lj/theodosia
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HOORAY! This actually sounds really... FUN. I know it's sorta scary but also - FUN! YAY YOU!