Two Weeks of College Completed

Two weeks down of college for Seth. It hasn’t been too bad either. The class that has been the most challenging so far has been Spanish. On the first day his teacher walked in speaking Spanish and never quit for about 5 minutes. Seth was completely lost.

At one point the teacher was saying that he would promote the students to a higher level of Spanish if they could show him they knew enough of it. Seth somehow got confused as the teacher was giving times and dates so he leaned over and asked the boy next to him (who was Hispanic) about it. The boy replied, “Don’t worry, you won’t be there.” He had heard enough of Seth’s gringo Spanish!

Seth asked the teacher later, “Was I supposed to know anything before I took this class?” The teacher assured him that no, he did not need to have known anything.

Much to Seth’s relief it has been easier since that first class. But he knows that this is the one class he’ll have to really prepare himself for each week.

English, he’s taking online. So far, so good.

Chemistry has been a breeze. Remember, he took Apologia’s Chemistry and Advanced Chemistry. Dr. Wile has written an excellent course and says that if you finish his Advanced Chemistry it is equivalent to a first year college course. That seems to be the case so far. On one of the quizzes Seth even found where his professor made a mistake and went and talked to him about it.

A little tip for all of you who have students that may be headed for college is to buy your books online. We have saved a few hundred dollars doing this already. The college bookstore wanted $200 or $300 for his chemistry book.  (I forget.) We found it online for $87.  I don’t know how they can get away with such inflated prices but there was a long line of people, including us, ready to part with hard earned money.  Then we came home and ordered them.  They give you two weeks to return the books to the bookstore so we returned them before that time was up.

We’re on a learning curve trying to figure all this college stuff out.  Thankfully, Seth is willing to talk to the teachers when he needs clarification or has a question.

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