Back to School

I originally reported that my degree required 150 credits. I was wrong. I found out yesterday that it is 180! That’s a whole ‘nother year! Uggh.

My financial plan shows me taking classes through the spring semester of 2010. It won’t take that long because I have some transfer credits and will hopefully be able to get 45 “life” credits from all the work I’ve done over the past few years at the News-Miner.

So, with 24 credits transfered from UAF and 45 life credits from past experience, that totals 69 credits before I start taking classes. Let’s see, 180 credits for the whole program minus the 69 credits I could potentially start with equals 111 credits remaining. I can also subtract this semester’s 7 credits. So that gets me to 104 credits after this semester is over. At 13 credits per semester, I could knock out 104 credits in exactly 8 semesters.

AIO offers four semesters annually: fall, winter, spring, and summer. So, since I’ve discounted this semester and will start those 8 semesters next semester, I’ll have to attend classes:

• Winter ‘07
• Spring ‘07
• Summer ‘07
• Fall ‘07
• Winter ‘08
• Spring ‘08
• Summer ‘08
• Fall ‘08

Realistically, I probably won’t qualify for all 45 potential life credits available, so I might have to take another semester. That would mean I would graduate sometime in the winter semester—January or February—of 2009. That sure seems a long way off, but really it’s only two years for a four-year degree.