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Jun. 22nd, 2010 05:26 pm So.
When last we left our intrepid heroine, she was foaming at the mouth and not making much sense. This may or may not have had something to do with my decision to try to go back to Brown Mackie College to finish my ever-loving occupational therapy assistant degree.
Hrmph.
Did you know, they refused to provide me a specific dollar amount for the tuition needed to complete my degree? It's for a very good reason, I found: I needed at least 80 credit hours to complete it, at $425/credit hour. When I did *that* math, kids, I came up with a very, VERY disturbing figure: $34,000. To finish an Associate's Degree. Uh...no. Not when Boe's Bachelor's degree cost just a shade above that...no way, nuh-uh, no-how, NO. Absolutely not.
So.
I have applied to Ivy Tech Community College, where tuition is the much more reasonable $104.00 per credit hour, to join their Practical Nursing program. It should take me a year, year and a half at the most (I plan to take classes next summer if that will hasten things along), I will spend WAY less money, and it's still the medical field. So it's not all bad...*whew*
Mom offered to loan me some of the tuition costs with Brown Mackie (she really would like to see me graduate college some time before she retires -- I'm afraid I'm the child she worries about the most, since I'm the least practical), but when I crunched those numbers, I called her up and told her that there was no way in hell I was going to ask her to whip out her checkbook and write me a 5 digit loan. I can't do that to my mom. So I promised her that I would investigate three different schools (Brown Mackie, IPFW, and Ivy Tech) and let her know what I found re: costs, programs/curricula, and transferability of credits. What I found suggests that Ivy Tech's Practical Nursing program is the best idea, using those three criteria, for me to get out of this $10/hr ceiling that I've been dealing with since, well, graduating high school.
Since my depression began to lift back in February/March, I'm finding it easier to *be* practical...and this is the longest amount of time without a major depressive episode since 1998. Maybe I'm getting back to being myself again!
When last we left our intrepid heroine, she was foaming at the mouth and not making much sense. This may or may not have had something to do with my decision to try to go back to Brown Mackie College to finish my ever-loving occupational therapy assistant degree.
Hrmph.
Did you know, they refused to provide me a specific dollar amount for the tuition needed to complete my degree? It's for a very good reason, I found: I needed at least 80 credit hours to complete it, at $425/credit hour. When I did *that* math, kids, I came up with a very, VERY disturbing figure: $34,000. To finish an Associate's Degree. Uh...no. Not when Boe's Bachelor's degree cost just a shade above that...no way, nuh-uh, no-how, NO. Absolutely not.
So.
I have applied to Ivy Tech Community College, where tuition is the much more reasonable $104.00 per credit hour, to join their Practical Nursing program. It should take me a year, year and a half at the most (I plan to take classes next summer if that will hasten things along), I will spend WAY less money, and it's still the medical field. So it's not all bad...*whew*
Mom offered to loan me some of the tuition costs with Brown Mackie (she really would like to see me graduate college some time before she retires -- I'm afraid I'm the child she worries about the most, since I'm the least practical), but when I crunched those numbers, I called her up and told her that there was no way in hell I was going to ask her to whip out her checkbook and write me a 5 digit loan. I can't do that to my mom. So I promised her that I would investigate three different schools (Brown Mackie, IPFW, and Ivy Tech) and let her know what I found re: costs, programs/curricula, and transferability of credits. What I found suggests that Ivy Tech's Practical Nursing program is the best idea, using those three criteria, for me to get out of this $10/hr ceiling that I've been dealing with since, well, graduating high school.
Since my depression began to lift back in February/March, I'm finding it easier to *be* practical...and this is the longest amount of time without a major depressive episode since 1998. Maybe I'm getting back to being myself again!
