In Coffee Spoons

* Health Software Systems

* Medical Transcription

* Keyboarding

* Moar English Comp.

Someone please explain to me why Keyboarding is not a prerequisite for the two above it.

"The thing about computers is they're really technical." --My Software Systems professor. Oh good lord.

"Eh."

Professor: So if an autotransfusion uses your own blood, then a homotransfusion would use...?"

Classmate: Blood from another species!

Rest of class: ...

Professor: Um. If we did that, which we never ever do, it would be called a xenotransfusion, which we would never ever do.

The best thing was how confidently that girl's hand shot up in the air. She knew she had this one.

English Comp I w/Writing Lab

What the hell why am I in this course. I wasn't able to test out of it, but was at least able to talk the advisor people out of putting me in College Reading I.

Me: I've taken advanced literature courses here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but without the prerequisites I don't know h--

Me: I was an editorial assistant at the literary journal here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but you aren't sup-

Other Advisor: Are you having trouble finding the code to override prerequisites? Cause it's this one. Right here. *click*

Intro to Computers

What why the hell am I in this course. Not only am I in it, but the online course filled up really quickly and so I'm stuck taking the in-person classroom version where the professor spends three hours talking about how to use Windows Vista and I spend three hours improving my chess game on Facebook. Things we covered in the first class:

• Starting your computer
  
• Logging on with your student ID
  
• Opening and navigating Blackboard
  
• Buying and using a USB drive
  
• Better control of the center by bringing bishops into play earlier
  

Intro to Health Software Systems

Exercept from syllabus course objectives:


Perform data quality analysis of the HI database
Understand statistical analysis of patient information and compute them
List and implement the elements of the UHD Data Set
Organize data elements in an MP Data Index


I am enrolled in this and in Intro to Computers simultaneously. Seriously.

Medical Terminology

This one is actually interesting in that "I am a tremendous nerd" kind of way; it's about memorizing roots, prefixes, and suffixes to translate individual terms. Yeah, I really am a nerd.

And as I mentioned on Facebook, I already know a ridiculous amount of this stuff thanks to television. (Actually, for all its raging inaccuracy, House is a good show if you just need hunks of medical jargon to translate for practice.


Since the majority of these are online and two of them are like the college equivalent of macaroni art, I want to try and add another course. There might be room in Accounting With Quickbooks, aka Spreadsheets Motherfucker.