Re:America's Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree
by btkramer9 on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:41PM
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Those are fair reasons. I assumed if anything like that came up the author would have included them. Your experience with community college was probably frustrating. It can be a good choice to help keep debt low but there's always that "transfer factor"
I disagree. Life circumstances can keep you from graduating as well.
I spent nearly 7 on a CS degree. There were a few hold ups. The biggest being until VERY recently, I was unmedicated with Bipolar Disorder. I would sign up for classes while manic, and barely scrape by or fail when depressed. It has taken me 5 years to get a proper diagnosis and find the right meds. Meanwhile, I still tried to do my best in the classes I was attending.
Another reason it took me so long, I attended community college and got a 2 year degree in programming I was told would directly translate to my BS in CS. This was not the case. I found that my university only took certain credits off of my AS, effectively putting me at about a year of coursework when I was under the impression I had 2.
None of this was me trying to take that long to graduate. I do take some of the responsibility for it, I could have done better to get out of bed and go to class some days. I could have done more research about PBSC's transfer degree. I could have fought harder for the right diagnosis when I was 18 and everything started happening.