Honestly, I’m now sure how I’m going to pass this Financial
Accounting course I am currently taking through Penn
Foster College. PFC isn’t exactly MIT, so this course should
be a breeze, right? Wrong!
Last night, I sat down at 7:30
pm to take my third 25-question exam. I finished at 2
AM. This is not good, not
good at all. When I take the final exam,
I will have only an hour to complete it, so this does not bode well for my
chances. To top it off, I scored a 76 on
this exam. This has dragged my semester
average down to a 79, or a high “C” so far for the semester. Yuck.
I have two more chapters worth of reading and one more exam
to take in this course, and I can say the end of this course can’t come soon
enough for me. Unfortunately, the
Managerial Accounting course is coming up later this semester.
I have to honestly say I have no aspirations whatsoever of
becoming an accountant. I know this is a
required course, but this will have no application to my current or future job
duties at all. I guess that’s one of the
things that makes me resent taking accounting courses.
Also, I got a response to my loan application to help pay
for the tuition to attend a graduate program at the University
of Leicester. The answer was “You want a loan? (Insert evil laugh here). Are you SERIOUS?” Actually, I received a professionally
written form email telling me what I already knew: my credit stinks, and even with a co-signer,
I am out of luck. Foiled by medical bills
again.
I am still determined to come up with the funds to attend University
of Leicester, even it if means
putting that plan on hold for a year until I finish my BA first and save the
funds on my own. My wife has always told
me I am stubborn, and she is right.
These setbacks will only make me work harder to achieve my goals. I was once told “you can never be a TV
reporter without a college degree”. Two
years later, I was on the air working as a TV reporter, through a combination
of hard work and constantly lobbying the news director for the position.
Perhaps not now, but eventually, I will be a student at a U.K.
distance learning school.