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rhoda_bruce
Almost Self-Reliant
I toyed with the idea of signing up a few months before I put my foot down and did it. I had only just paid off my Katrina nightmare in February and didn't want any new debts, so the money was an object. When I put my foot down, I just sent them a check for $39, plus my application and waited around for my books and enrollment package and I've been paying every 2 weeks, so I can keep ahead of it.
As for my first test, I only made an 80%, which is passing. Perhaps I could have done it open book method and improved a bit, but I didn't. Also, after each chapter there is a self-test you take to prepare for the actual test, but what got me was that some of the questions are hidden deep in the chapters and when you reading the lessons, they don't exactly stick out, so I thought the whole course was going to be a killer. I think its doable. I wrote all my incorrectly answered questions, correctly as notes and underlined them in the book, so I could learn them extra well.
I used to think I knew a lot about plant identification, which I probably did if you just put me next to the next person who lives in the 'normal' world, but I now know even more than I did then, but more so I know what I don't know, which is a lot and quite humbling. I see things, I must have seen all my life, which have rubbed up on me doing yard work or going in the woods and I have no idea what to call them. They are sticking out like sore thumbs making me feel inferior....but I keep telling them,"Yeah, laugh it up. I'm gonna get you."
I have a year to complete the coarse, so I'm trying not to fall behind or get too relaxed. But I have recipes to use, which the lessons suggest you do. Really I think preparing is where you will really learn. Its true of nursing too....I can tell you about pharmacology all I want, but unless you get a patient assigned to you with certain diagnosis' and medications which you will give to her/him, you will not remember what each med is for. There is just so much to know, that I think you have to study and jump right in (being careful mind) and do it.
You can move at your own pace, but you don't want your year to take 3 or 4.....I"m not sure what they will do if it does. I guess your money is still green, so it might be fine. I just want to finish when I should.
I woke up early today and started studying for my 3rd test. I have most of my first self-test done.
Weather isn't permitting me to do much field work right now.
As for my first test, I only made an 80%, which is passing. Perhaps I could have done it open book method and improved a bit, but I didn't. Also, after each chapter there is a self-test you take to prepare for the actual test, but what got me was that some of the questions are hidden deep in the chapters and when you reading the lessons, they don't exactly stick out, so I thought the whole course was going to be a killer. I think its doable. I wrote all my incorrectly answered questions, correctly as notes and underlined them in the book, so I could learn them extra well.
I used to think I knew a lot about plant identification, which I probably did if you just put me next to the next person who lives in the 'normal' world, but I now know even more than I did then, but more so I know what I don't know, which is a lot and quite humbling. I see things, I must have seen all my life, which have rubbed up on me doing yard work or going in the woods and I have no idea what to call them. They are sticking out like sore thumbs making me feel inferior....but I keep telling them,"Yeah, laugh it up. I'm gonna get you."
I have a year to complete the coarse, so I'm trying not to fall behind or get too relaxed. But I have recipes to use, which the lessons suggest you do. Really I think preparing is where you will really learn. Its true of nursing too....I can tell you about pharmacology all I want, but unless you get a patient assigned to you with certain diagnosis' and medications which you will give to her/him, you will not remember what each med is for. There is just so much to know, that I think you have to study and jump right in (being careful mind) and do it.
You can move at your own pace, but you don't want your year to take 3 or 4.....I"m not sure what they will do if it does. I guess your money is still green, so it might be fine. I just want to finish when I should.
I woke up early today and started studying for my 3rd test. I have most of my first self-test done.
Weather isn't permitting me to do much field work right now.