Capstone - Double Dipping

[dharmastudios]

The rates I'm locked into include a discount, so this isn't 100% accurate but I'm paying $7992 a semester for 12-18 credits. I've tried to keep it pegged to 18, but some are labs and labs are usually 1. There's also a $390 per semester technology fee, which covers books and the online access and all that jazz. Their semesters and normal school semesters don't line up, though. Your semester starts when your enrollment starts, much like the other semi-self-paced schools do. So because I started classes on July 23rd, my first semester started then and ended 15 weeks later. March 1st I finished my second semester, and therefore my first academic year. End of June I'll be finishing my third semester and graduating with my Associates, then continuing on into the bachelors program. The BS MET degree will come sometime around July or August. There's some potential fluctuation in my schedule right now, and I have a couple of terms that only have one class because there's serious limits on it. The BS program has a lot fewer students, so getting the classes scheduled is harder, and they're streamlining us all together. I'm not for certain, but we might actually be the first set of BS MET graduates.

Some of the classes have left me rolling my eyes going "wow, this really has to be taught?" but then I've been working in fields related to a lot of this for most of my life, even though I never finished my degree before. It seems like the majority of this is culminating things that I've already known, learned through various sources on my own, or learned years ago into a heap of knowledge that I'll need later on. Some of the things are new and some of the classes have been tough and required a lot of work and study. They're compact, so the assignments don't ever stop, and for those I have really had to put some effort into it. The further along I go the more useful the information gets and the more I feel I'm learning.

I'll post my degree audit so far so you can look at it.

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Here's my current standing with the degree audit for the AS MET.