January 13, 2016
That's the Web address of a video that I filmed last night and published at YouTube, after taking reading and math placement tests at Bunker Hill Community College.
That's a picture from today of my test results.
During the video that I filmed last night, I said that I had known before taking the test yesterday that I probably needed another couple of weeks of studying from online websites to know everything that was being tested for math. The last day to register for classes is January 15th.
I applied for and was accepted to the Biotechnology Option at Bunker Hill Community College several weeks ago. I sent them my high school and college transcripts, which show that I took math and science, from Geometry through Calculus, for 4 years in high school.
When I went to academic advising the day before yesterday, I was told that high school transcripts aren't even considered when Bunker Hill is placing students in classes.
I know that I don't need to repeat an entire semester of algebra; I'm sure that there's nothing that I could get from that class that I couldn't remember how to do from studying at free, online websites. I probably don't need to take an entire semester of Precalculus again, either. Most people would need to study for a math test that was testing them on something that they hadn't studied for more than 20 years; however, that doesn't explain why I was placed in College Writing I.
Those are pictures from today of the page of the Bunker Hill website that lists the class requirements for the Biotechnology Option.
College Writing I is a prerequisite to taking Introduction to Chemistry. I guess I'll be taking College Writing I and Algebra during my first semester, and then I'll have to take Precalulus during my second semester, and then I can start taking Chemistry during my third semester. I took Chemistry in high school and I took Chemistry during my first year of college. I don't mind taking it again, but I had hoped to be able to start taking the required classes for the program this semester, and to take only the core requirements for the program so that I could graduate in a total of three semesters and then start working at a better job.
I applied to the Just A Start program for Biotechnology in 2014 and 2015 and was rejected both times. The first year, I got a total of two answers wrong on Just A Start's placement test; the second year, I got a perfect score. Unlike the Just A Start program, the Bunker Hill Biotechnology program isn't free.
Student loans are going to have to pay for almost all of my time at this or any school. Then I'll have to pay back all of those loans. The more semesters that I have to spend at school, the more my student loans will be.
There's nothing that I can do about the name "Bunker Hill Community College." If I had not let conglomerate code accusations control my housing decisions in 2013-2014, I might not have to live in a homeless shelter because I would have had a lot more places to choose from when I was trying to get an apartment in 2014. If I had gotten an apartment in the three-month time frame that I had to get someplace to live, I wouldn't have gotten evicted and then I wouldn't have the eviction by the voyeuristic, harassing, lying landlord on my record that has contributed to my being homeless for another two years in a row.
I don't know when Bunker Hill Community College started using the slogan "imagine the possibilities." It could be a preconglomerate slogan; if it isn't, I'll probably be getting harassed a lot and will probably be forced to leave. That will make it impossible for me to continue my education anywhere; I won't be able to get financial aid somewhere else if I am forced to leave this school, even if another school would accept me, which probably no school would. You have to have a record of academic success to continue in academics; that's difficult to get when you're being forced to fail.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, January 13, 2016 @ 9:21 a.m./additions @ 10:03 a.m.
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January 14, 2016
That's the Web address of a page that I published today, called "Today, I registered for College Writing II."
Copyright L. Kochman, January 14, 2016 @ 4:42 p.m.
