As the days of summer were slowly
flying away (at the same time), the idea of junior year coming to a
start hadn’t really hit me. It wasn’t until I got a letter from Parkland
giving me information about their Dual Credit Program.
I
enrolled in the Anatomy/Physiology class at Uni, which is Parkland
offered. In the beginning of the process I wasn’t sure how things
were supposed to go. I asked a former senior who had taken the class if
she was willing to sell to me her textbook and supplies. As I called
Parkland’s office to make sure we would be using the same stuff as the
previous year so I could buy it from the senior before she left, the secretary asked a couple of follow-up questions. Among the questions she asked was,
“Did you send in your ACT of SAT scores?” I wasn’t a junior yet so I
didn’t have any scores to give to Parkland. The secretary quickly
replied, “I’m going to need you to go to the testing center and take the
Compass placement test. When would be a good time for you to take it?”
Her reply was so abrupt, I didn’t know what to say, so I gave her a
time in the afternoon after two weeks.
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The
night before the placement test, I decided to go on Parkland’s website
to know what the test was actually about (yay, for procrastination!).
After skimming the FAQs, some phrases that caught my eyes were “study
guide”, “tips”, “good night sleep”, “good breakfast”, and “practice
tests”. Great, I was supposed to study for this test. And it wasn’t like
I was going to have a good breakfast if I’m fasting all day. I had to wake up
the next morning at 8 to cancel my appointment with the testing center
for that afternoon.
To be continued.......
Oh gosh, I was planning to take anat/phys too, until I was told that it was ridiculously difficult to get a good grade in that class. After stumbling onto the Wikipedia page regarding the human skeleton and learning that people actually had these hard to memorize scientific names for each tiny bone in your body, I decided against it.
ReplyDelete"Yay, for procrastination!" Haha! Very true!
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder, how did you end up taking anat/phys if you didn't take the placement test? I wish you had explained that at the end so it felt more resolved.
So, is this a "to be continued" story? If so, indicate this at the end. (If not, consider it, since you leave us hanging a bit at the end...)
ReplyDeleteSo how did it go?
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