Today was the start of my 3rd week back at school for the first time in, well, 5.5 yrs. Its been a while, and is proving to be slightly more stressful than I remember… Anyhow, I’m currently majoring in Spanish Translation at Kent State University, and have been trying to decide what I want to minor in (most likely computer science). I’ve always wanted to learn to program, and have simply never been very successful in teaching myself (basically, I know just enough to break stuff:). When I was in college previously, I was simply never willing to take the required math classes to be able to get into the computer classes that I actually wanted to take. Oh, and I refused to use windows. Which, for some reason was required by both of the colleges at which I’ve previously inquired. All of which added up to me simply not taking computer classes in the past.
Today though, I finally went and hunted down a computer science adviser, and as I was talking to him about classes, system requirements, etc, realized that he was actually running GNOME! GNOME 2.x granted, but still, GNOME! I was (am!) elated! As you may suspect, I was assured that no, I will not have to use windows in any of their computer science classes, which is of course exactly what I was hoping for.
All of this adds up to me looking forward to taking a computer science class or two in the coming semesters. Assuming I can pass Algebra for Calculus. Which, at this point, is quite the assumption, since its been a solid, oh, I don’t know, 10 years since I’ve done *ANY* math besides basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and they very occasional division?? Yeah. Its not looking so hot right now.
Todo en Tiempo 
January 23, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Hi Emily,
I think this website may VERY helpful for your Algebra and Calculus classes, and any math gaps you may have. His video tutorials are… well. See for yourself 🙂
http://www.khanacademy.org/
January 25, 2012 at 7:30 am
You can try with: ocw.mit.edu, they have amazing materials, even a youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mit
Best regards.
January 25, 2012 at 9:05 am
Thanks for the recommendations… my problem with both yours and Tiffany’s is simply that I don’t have high speed internet – I average ~20-40k down, occasionally topping out ~80-100kb, and equally occasionally down to 2-10kb. Which makes watching most any video online painful to say the least. But thanks for the suggestions:)