BYU Provo, tryin ta play me like a foo
so, mainly because I get sick of looking at the same posts everyday, I’ve thus been driven to blogging. I’m pushing out my thoughts on my current experience registering for classes at BYU Provo. I currently study at BYU Hawaii. My experience coming here was great. The dean of the department, Don and I, worked with an advisor so that right off the bat, so I would be in the classes I felt I should be and if something needed to be adjusted down the road we could. My resume took care of my prereq’s and I’ve had a great run. So I’m applying at provo, I talk to the guy over transfer credit evaluations over there, and I had to fight to get my accounting class accepted, which I can understand, there’s a lot of…. stuff…. in accounting you gotta watch out for. But then we come to the computer credits, all I have are a few higher level courses in computers. I never did “intro to computers” and as such this guy tells me I have to. I email the professor over the classes I don’t want to sit through, and send him my resume`, he looks it over and says he’s deeply impressed, but that doesn’t mean I have Excel and Powerpoint skills which I will need in the future. I don’t mean to sound pompous, but if I can remotely administrate a network in brazil, I would be willing to say I could figure out that excel has a formula bar. The fact is I tutored for all 100-200 level courses my freshman year. I know my stuff, and I would venture to say most every guy I’ve worked on a team with would know everything taught in those courses. Until a class begins to specialize, I think it’s ridiculous to be rigid in the schedule. Any 100-200 level course, you should be able to go back to. Take them in any order you want, they all say pretty much the same thing, you’re an idiot in this subject, take me to figure out what the heck you’re supposed to be doing. Well, I would be happy to take one, but the whole slew of them is gonna drive me nuts. And the fact that I get no consideration because of my other courses, or the fact that I’ve been in the industry for a long time frustrates me. There is nothing worse than paying money to go sit with a bunch of newbs for 4 months, then do it again the next semeser. So I’m not even going to take a computer class from them while I’m up there, I’ll push the management side of things for now until I can get my case heard. To be honest, if they continue on like this, there’s no way I’m going to put their name on my resume` as free advertising for the rest of my life, forget the MSIM if these guys are gonna be fairy’s, I’ll come back to Hawai’i, pioneer a MIS undergrad program for them, and walk away from the school having made a difference and not wasted any time, then I’ll chase an MBA instead. Blah, it’d sure be nice though if I didn’t have to use my education as a political statement of sorts, but the joy’s that come with not putting your head down and following the guy in front of you are such that I never have had that luxury, and probably never will.