Yes, Actually…I Did Forget that I Have a Blog
It’s not that I’m at that age…although I’m getting close. I went back to school in February. I’m working on a master certificate (IS/IT Project Management) at Villanova. What is a master certificate, you ask? It’s the core courses for a master’s degree without the distribution courses. I will be finished in late September.
I’m surprised by how much I am enjoying this. Part of it is that I have been an IS/IT project manager for so long I have a lot of this stuff down cold, so it isn’t that much of a struggle, although, like most informally educated practitioners, I’m finding the formal aspects of the trade (like earned value analysis, statistical quality control, risk valuation and time estimating) pretty challenging. Still, I’m lovin’ it. So much so that I decided to go back and get a graduate degree.
But here’s the tragic part. The program that I want to enter (which will remain anonymous for now) requires a business/IT degree for entry and, well, I majored in biology. This means that I have to go back and get a business/IT degree before I can enter that program. Now here’s the sunshine and rainbows part of the story: Turns out I don’t have to go back to the beginning. I only need about two years of course work to get a second degree. Several universities, in fact, only require that I take 30 to 36 credits (depending on the exact degree) with them and will even let me test out of some requirements. I can do this in about 15 months, starting in October.
I’ll try to remember to keep you posted on the trials and tribulations of a late-in-life student.