My journey through OSU is a bit disjointed so I’ll give some perspective by briefly describing my overall college career. I graduated high school in 2000 and attended Humboldt State University for a year and a half until my family needed my help so I put college on hold. When I finally went back to school in 2004, I was still helping out my family but we had moved to Oregon so I attended Southwestern Oregon Community College and earned my Associates degree in Computer Information Systems with the intention of transferring to OSU after 2 years. My advisor at Southwest screwed up and when I got to OSU, most of my credits didn’t transfer over even though I was assured they would.
I essentially had to start all over again at OSU even though I had already done roughly 3 plus years of college. I majored in Computer Science and lived on campus. I got a job working with a professor to run a study concerning software efficacy in relation to gender and that went pretty well. After roughly three years at OSU in 2009, I ran out of funding and had to leave school. I went back home and got a job in IT where I found my passion for hardware and software based work. The requirements for my current employment were to earn specific IT certifications on a periodic schedule and as I result I have quite a few. After a few years, my employers said they would fund my remaining Bachelors degree education at OSU so I started taking classes again albeit one or two at a time since they were remote and I had a full time job. There was also a cap on how much money would be spent on my education and it came up for review and approval once a year. I’ve finally come to the end of my time at OSU and only have to finish CS463 and one other upper division class of my choosing (as long as I haven’t taken it before). I recently went back to OSU and toured the campus with a few friends from college even though we hadn’t been back there in roughly 14 years. It’s got a few new additions here and there but it definitely feels like the old OSU we attended.
