On Monday August 21, 1995, I started college at what was then known as the University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR), now referred to as Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST). If I recall correctly I started at 7:30am with an Algebra/Trig class designed to speed freshmen into the math program if you didn’t test out of the class. Even though I had taken Calculus in High School I wasn’t successful at testing out. Today, May 14, 2011, I am done with college, not done in as I am not going anymore (I leave that option open) but done in as I have a college degree. Before I talk about that here are some stats.

The night before what should be my last final of my college career (though I leave the possibility open of going back for another degree in the future).

I’ve got a final for my Money, Banking and Financial Markets class at 2pm tomorrow. Assuming I pass it should be the last final I have to take.

15 years, 5 months and many days after I started. I likely won’t be “official” until May, but at least I should be done! *knock on wood*

So the first week of school for my final semester is over. So far both classes seem like they will be alright, and actually interesting to me. They’re both econ related, but one is a public policy class, and the other is a political science class. Perhaps after these two classes I will have a better idea of if I really want to try my hand at politics in the future. I have a feeling I will still have a strong desire to do so. A quick glance at the the Colorado State University website shows at Political Science masters program… Not that I’ve finished my BS (hey, it’ll be 14 years when I finish in May) but maybe taking some classes at CSU would be an interesting thing to do.

I think that will generate another blog post over on www.going2colorado.com tonight…

Well I went to school this evening and dropped a course. I realized I was going to be missing 8-10 classes in this course alone this fall due to all of the trips scheduled, so I figured I would take some of my load off and only have one course this fall, intermediate micro. I still have a course to finish up from this summer, before the end of the fall semester, and after all the conferences and traveling are done I will probably sign up for an online course. That will leave me two classes left next spring to finish up my BS in Economics.

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