pascal Wrote:I'm not complaining about my life, money isn't an issue, but I feel so empty without having completed college. I feel like a failure. I love all the people I work with, but whenever the topic of "college" comes up, I just drop internally. Literally, it's like a girl saying she doesn't like you anymore.

All I want is a bachelors. I want to get it from a state university as well. I would like it before I get to 30 as well.

So cramming the courses a bit, and doing summers, I guess you can normally do it in 3 years. What if I complete as many CLEP exams as possible? Any way I could make this say a 2.5 year or a lesser busy 3?

Any input here would be great about how I can go about it.

Thank you, it's much appreciated.

Prloko Wrote:If I owned a successful firm, I would brag like all hell that it was without a college degree. For most people, college is a means to an end. Don't get me wrong, I used to have an issue with not having a degree either. I wanted to go to a "respectable" school as that would somehow make me a better person. I got over it, but unfortunately, I don't have my own business, so I had to suck it up and get a TESC degree to check a box.

Telling people you CLEPd a degree is not going to be much more impressive than not having a degree. The education snobs will just complain you cheated.

If you are adamant to get a CS degree, Old Dominion offers an online Bachelors. They accept 60 CLEP/DSST credits. If you are going in person, its going to take a long time. Why a state school?

pascal Wrote:I will admit completely, this is an internal issue that is caused by me. I just feel like hey, if my gf has a bachelors, what am I doing? You know, it's like whenever we get into a dispute she brings it up. She is just mad and yeah trying her best to make me feel bad, but it's kinda true. 26 years old and still didn't get a degree? What happened?


What happened was in my early 20's was filled with just working as an idiomatic Java developer depressed out of his mind. I don't really care about education snobs say honestly. I just wanted to use CLEP to maybe cut a year off a 4 year degree, and then pack the classes pretty tight so I had a "decent" 3 year program, going summers etc.

I really do prefer to goto Ohio State and get the degree from there, I just wanted to make that process not be a 4 or 5 year one and more like a 3 year one. Now I know people who go summers and pack their classes a little bit and get it done in 3. CLEP'ing my first 30 credits seems like a great way to boost it maybe?

Columbus State a popular community college offers a transfer program, so maybe, just maybe get all the general education stuff out of the way there, then CLEP as much more stuff as I can? I speak fluent French, and a great bit of German (professional writing level). Since we work in the French market, and in Quebec, my french is just as good as my english writing wise.

So I feel those will be some easy CLEP's. I would even be happy with a major in french and minor in computer science or vice versa. Honestly man, I just want a degree. 70 percent of our employees have them, and I'm the founder and the person who runs it, and I don't have one.

Oh the precious wasted time I have missed. I know 26 isn't the end all, but I would have had this done by 22 and still be in the same situation.

Needless to say, degree or not, I am not changing my career path at all. I have a working system and I'm sticking too it. We are continually expanding in new areas and 2014 I think will be our best year yet, and quite possibly our highest growth year.

so maybe CLEP exams + the columbus state transfer program (Many of these courses are offered online as well it seems). Then finish the last 1.5 years at Ohio State (including summers) ?

If I started it this summer or in the fall, seems like I could have it done before 30.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks