Returning to School as an Adult?

As part of this life refresh, I am going through, I have been noodling about going back to school to learn new skills. Am I interested in getting a degree in accounting in order to eventually get a CPA? Am I interested in joining the tech industry as a project manager? Am I interested in getting a master’s degree in business? Well, to test these thoughts, I signed up for a class through UW.

This experience started off on a bad foot and just got progressively worse from there. First, they assigned homework to be done prior to the first class with little heads up. Then we were lectured on how we need to keep our cameras on the entire time even though the professor just reads off PowerPoint the entire time. The homework after our first class was a copy/paste of that same PowerPoint which ended up being due 24 hours prior to when we were told it would be due. Finally, we were lectured in the second class about copy/pasting other’s work because all our answers were too similar to one another.

The second class was also a PowerPoint lecture where the professor just read off the slides to us. Then, because I “turned in my homework late”, I didn’t get access to the same learning material during the lesson. The assistant “is letting me resubmit my late work” in order to get access to the learning material and in-class work. This means that I have to use non-class time to do the in-class work after I resubmit the homework, I did in fact submit in time according to the professor’s email in order to get access to the reading and homework assignments that I need to submit prior to our next class.

I feel like this course is just a waste of my time. If I wanted to learn off a PowerPoint, I could have just learned off of YouTube. If I wanted to be treated like a child with copy/paste assignments and strict rules for what is and is not allowed for class participation I would spend this same time with my daughter. I don’t need to lose out on family time for something that is ultimately not going to serve me.

This experiment has taught me that I have zero interest higher education that is not self-led. I need a mentor who will work with me and not someone who will treat me and my classmates like children despite everyone being adults. This course is sadly a waste of time and money, but the lesson was worth it. I am not going back to school. If I want to change careers in any way, I will do it another way.


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