Options for someone who's going to be on a ship for 9 months!

[dfrecore]

I wonder what he does on a ship to have a lot of down time. Internet access is very limited (assuming he's in the military). I believe there are courses afloat but i think those are traditional courses. I suggest, bring a lot of study materials for CLEP/DSST. When he's back in port, schedule those tests. I've seen a thread here before about this person who lives overseas, and no access to a test center. He studied for 6 months and when he was ready to test, he only have a week to test multiple subjects. I think it was a total of 60 credits. Maybe he can do that .

I've heard from multiple people - the main problem on board is boredom. There is tons of downtime, depending on your job. My friend anticipates that for himself, he's done it a couple of times already this year in shorter increments (1 month and then 4 months). So I'm guessing he has a handle on what's going on there.

I thought of the CLEP/DSST thing, I will definitely suggest it to him. It sounds horrible to me, to do all of that studying and then just go test like a madman. Ugh.