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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Monday I go back to school and begin my freshman year of college. I'm taking a course to get a A.A.S. degree in Visual Communications Technology (Graphic Arts/Printing). 64 credit hours in all, 15 this semester.
This semester I'm taking English, Math, Intro to 2D Graphics, Astronomy, and WWII History. Taking the Sci and His courses to try and pad my GPA my first year since I already know quite a bit about those subjects (very little of it from schooling HA!).
I just got my books Friday:
Victory at Stalingrad
Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist
Harlem at War: the Black experience of WWII (guess they have to appease the minorities...)
Major Problems in the History of WWII
The Cosmos: Astronomy in the new millennium (most expensive book I got; $119 used)
Enhanced InSite for Composition (a online thing for English instead of books)
A Survey of Mathematics with Applications
Student's Solutions Manual (for above)
(About $300 in all, paid for by a Pell Grant which also covers all my tuition etc this semester.)
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Awesome! Good luck with that. =)
You may also want see how far the financial aid will take you, credit hour wise. Here in Frederick County (Maryland) they pay for 96 credit hours towars your A.A at a community college. Which basically means, I could take whatever I wanted as long as I finish the curriculum and get the degree with these 96 credits.
As for the text books, we try to either get used ones, older editions or 'International' editions. That cuts down the cost tremendously.