Going downtown

Last Friday I went to orientation, where I toured the campus, listened to some speakers and signed up for classes. They are still evaluating my transcripts (all nine of them) to see what can transfer. On Friday it was 30 hours, today it was 52 hours. We're getting there. I signed up for Business Law, Computer Information Systems and Accounting 2. I wanted to be sure that I was signed up for the right stuff, so I made an appointment to meet with an advisor today. I headed downtown at around 9:30 for my 10:00 appointment. As I came down Peachtree, looking for Broad St about 5 emergency vehicles screamed down the various side streets. County cops, GHP, Atlanta City Cops, fire engines, fire/rescue, SWAT, you name it. Streets were blocked off and all the news helicopers were flying around, a real scene.

Turns out some guy was running through the MARTA station with a knife, a MARTA cop chased him down, he got stabbed and that's when other cops shot the guy with the knife. Thankfully, everyone is still alive, recuperating in the hospital, but I'd say that the response was a bit overkill for the situation. People I visited in the building actually saw the action from their windows, that's how close I was to all of this.

As it turns out, I only needed about 5 minutes to get all sorted out. None of my MBA classes will count towards the business classes that are required for the BBA in Accounting. So I'll be taking the undergrad versions of classes that I took as a grad student. We weighed the options and decided that although I could get into the graduate program, for what I want to do, an undergrad degree with a CPA as the goal is the best way to approach it.

I've contacted my previous schools to get syllabi to show that Data Analysis in Education that I took at SFSU will be a good match for Math 3710, Statistics. Of course, Quantitative Methods that I took for my MBA can't count, even though, it was harder. I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.

They have this weird thing called Institutional Options. It's very similar to my Ethnic Diversity Cluster that was required for graduation from SFSU. I took San Francisco and Geography of Ethnic Neighborhoods, (an excellent class, BTW.) I'm thinking that either of these would substitute for the Perspectives classes, which are 2 credit courses that cover topics like Pop Music, World Food, Television Violence, you get the idea.

So I don't have to take a second Lab Science (Thank goodness because the first one darn near put me under.) I do have to take American Government. James is still scratching his head over that one. I didn't even have to take it in high school because I tested out of it.

As a person who has been to a LOT of colleges you learn that each one has its own weirdness. As long as I don't have to take a Math class, I think I'll be pretty happy. It's not that I can't do math, its that I don't enjoy it.

Since 9 credits cost the same as 12, I'm debating as to what other class to take. I can't enroll in any Business classes until I've finished the "core program" and none of the other classes meld well with my schedule. I might start slow and kick it into gear later.