Hello!Starting at ZERO credits and beginning my journey to a TESU Bachelors Degree.

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Hello everyone and thank you for letting me become a part of your community! I just discovered this forum yesterday and I have been reading many many threads the last couple of days that have been vastly helpful and informative. This is my story: I have decided to get my bachelors degree and I have chosen Thomas Edison State University. I am starting at Zero. No credits. Little knowledge on this process, yet a fierce determination to get this accomplished. I am looking at either a degree in History, International Studies, or Liberal Studies. I recently came across the CLEP concept of achieving a degree but after discovering this forum, I see that there are many other ways to achieve this (while still including CLEP tests). I was one of those people who just knew about the traditional 4 years of school route in achieving a degree. What a surprise and shock it was to find that there is another path in achieving a degree, with the responsibilities of an adult that make going to school extremely difficult. I am excited about this and wish to get started immediately
Basically, I am going to need help and guidance with this. From my readings I have seen how this community is helpful in helping your members achieve their goals. Very cool. Just like member 'Notgodot', I would like to use this thread to be our area of conversation to the finish line.
As I said, I decided on TESU. I do not plan to enroll with them though until I achieve about 80 credits. In the meantime I will be using this as a source of information and taking my tests accordingly to our conversations. I have read that I should begin with the general ed classes. I am unsure on who to use to do this. Besides CLEP and DSST, I see that there is also Study.com, Straighterline, etc. It's a lot of information I have read in the last two days and I am organizing and filtering all of that. I am not really a math and science guy but am more of a history and English person. Just putting that out there. I am about to print out the History, International Studies, and Liberal Studies requirements from the TESU website. From what I have read, it appears that Liberal Studies will be the easiest degree to accomplish. My heart is more set on one of the other two though. I'm just still not sure on how to approach that but I want to at least get the ball rolling here.
So lets get this started. The coffee is brewing and the game face is on. I appreciate all of you and our future commitment here. If you have questions that will help you in your advise to me, feel free to ask away as I am sure there will be questions. And now to post this thread......haha. Take care!