StraighterLine 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Distance learning is a fairly new, but quickly growing, method earning your college education.  Obviously CLEP exams and DSST exams are some of the more typical routes for earning distance credit, but the college scene is changing rapidly and there are some new and exciting methods now available.  There are typically two walls…
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ABOVE AND BEYOND DEGREE EQUALITY (PART TWO)
From part one of this series: ” My distance degree is not worth “just as much” as a traditional campus degree – it is worth more. Â It is worth years of work, life experience, and personal growth. Â Let’s go above degree equality, let’s go above and beyond the status-quo. Â If you are going to be…
Above and Beyond Degree Equality (part one)
Welcome to the fight for degree equality. Â See, the majority of students will attend regular universities with classrooms and hallways and fire drills, and they will never have to prove or justify their degree. Â The majority of students will attend a university familiar to them and the people around them, earn a degree, put…
The One State with Low Student Debt
There is only one state where the average college student has less that $20,000 of debt when they graduate. Â In all 50 United States, we can only find one state with this statistic and that award goes to the western state of New Mexico. Â Student debt is becoming a bigger and bigger issue in America….
Update and a Restart
Hello everyone, Where did my blogging drive go? Â I have no idea! Â Somewhere in between life and school and work I got too busy to keep up the blog. Â I kept writing (couldn’t stop that!), but it never made it onto the blog. Â But I have resolved to do better in 2015 and journal all…
Picking Back Up
Hey Everyone! I took an unplanned, unscheduled blogging sabbatical this past summer. Â And to be perfectly honest, I enjoyed, and needed, the break. Â Nothing was really happening with school, I was planning the 5th Annual Plants and Pillars Film Festival, and there was family stuff to do. This summer has been wonderful. Â I’ve gotten better…
Compostion CLEP – with or without the essay?
Questions: Can you take the Modular CLEP for English, instead of the full CLEP? Will it count as English 102? Can you avoid the essays? Before deciding which test to take, look up your college and see what they accept. For CollegePlus students, or other kids who are going to use Thomas Edison State College,…
"Make it a close second"
I’ve always like algebra. Geometry never really was my favorite, but I liked Algebra. So I actually enjoyed the daily math grind in a way. But I also discovered that I was not called to any career where I did math 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. After to much math my brain…
My battle with ALEKs Math (part 1)
Yes, I know it seems that I dropped off the face of the earth. But I did not. In fact, I am still very much here! Here’s what’s going on. I met with my CollegePlus coach and degree advisor. We picked my remaining courses and lined up what I needed to take. Because I switched…
October Focus: Hunt Accountability
If you are choosing to be a “uncommon” or “distant” student, you will lack the accountability that normal students get a brick and mortar school. To tell you the truth, no one will be telling what to do. Which, to some of you, sounds like a dream come true. It’s not. It’s a nightmare and…