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⌈ Secret Post #2388 ⌋

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[Val and Matt]

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[My Chemical Romance]

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[Little House on the Prairie/GoT]

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[The Venture Bros.]

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[Once Upon a Time in Odessa]

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[Gabriel Knight]

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[Dangan Ronpa]

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[America's Cup]

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[Legion]

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[Trailer Park Boys]

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[Warehouse 13]

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[Sugar Bits]

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[Touhou Project, Assassins Creed, Madoka Magica, Rise of the Guardians]

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This is all written assuming you're in the US.

I went back to school after 15 years and it's a lot easier now than it was then. Most colleges won't fail a student that does the coursework, so don't worry too much about that.

Taking refresher courses is a great way to get yourself prepared before starting your degree. I would recommend NOT doing it through community college or any other kind of college; you don't want those on your transcripts. Paying out of pocket for an adult education course through a learning center is the best thing you can do to both prepare yourself to go to college and also preserve your academic reputation. If there isn't a place nearby where you can go, look online for such courses.

You can also check your local library for books in the courses you need a refresher. The Homework Helpers series is marketed for schoolchildren at the level of each subject they address, but the books are not written as though they are for children. I bought the Algebra one from Amazon for about $10 and it was a huge help to me without having the side effect of making me feel stupid or talked down to, as many books like that tend to.

"Most colleges won't fail a student that does the coursework"

That *really* depends on the college, actually. The ones where I live - including the community college, actually will. Some profs don't but...yeah. I really wouldn't recommend relying on that if you're going for a degree.

"Most colleges won't fail a student that does the coursework"? "Preserve your academic reputation"?

I have NO idea what you're talking about here. Have you attended most colleges and quizzed the professors in order to find out that they don't flunk people anymore? Who have you spoken to who said that a student shouldn't attend community or four-year colleges because it would damage their "academic reputation"?

Checking out library resources is a fine idea, but the rest of your advice sounds dodgy as hell.

I haven't attended most colleges, but I audit them for a living. Colleges are first and foremost businesses. They need ever increasing success rates to compete against each other as well as continue to receive funds from other sources.

As for preserving academic reputation, I'm not sure what you're confused about. Taking prep or remedial courses may help a student's preparedness, but it hurts their record. It also raises the cost of education for that student.

DA.

Colleges are first and foremost businesses. They need ever increasing success rates to compete against each other

Ayup. And those ever increasing rates fuel education inflation. Used to be good enough to have a Bachelors, then a Masters, now only a PhD will do. What comes after that? They're going to have to invent a new category to keep everyone coming back to pay more tuition.

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