Entries from October 2006

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Status Change and other Admin Issues

As mentioned in my last post I was given the wrong information for what book to order for my class and am therefore 3 chapters behind at the moment. That would not be such a big deal but when I ordered the right book through the vendor that DeVry recommended I received an error and [...]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

My First Class – Project Management

Well last night I had my first class at DeVry. The class is taught by a professor that has a PhD in Project management and 30 years experience which includes 20 years of PM experience in the Air Force – pretty impressive. He is a good professor in that he tries to mix real life [...]

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Riding the Financial Aid Roller Coaster

So now I am in the thick of the financial aid roller coaster with filling out forms and applying for loans. The loans that I applied for a called Stafford loans and are government guaranteed loans through private lenders. I requested mine through Wachovia bank. I have also qualified for a small Pel grant which [...]

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Why I Chose DeVry University

DeVry was the second place that I looked at in my search for schools. I initially looked at the local Junior College that is in the area and was somewhat discouraged by how complicated it was. Basically the local JC was partnered up with a undergraduate and a graduate school in order to try and [...]

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

First Post on the 30 Something Student

This is the first post on this blog that was setup today. I have already setup the about page with a little Q&A about this blog so you can head over there get what this blog is about. To give you quick of it though I am 30 something years old and am going back [...]