Crash Course In Microsoft Excel

So my Computer & Management class we are learning to use Excel and Access programs. Well, I am plus maybe 3 or 4 other people in the class and everyone else has some knowledge about it. I've only worked in Excel and that was using it to work one problem in my statistics class last fall semester. I have a lot of catching up to do to understand how to use it, but at least I have this weekend and a couple of more days before the next classes to get the basic grasp of it. I did 1 of the first 3 chapters that we are going over at the moment and so far so good. There is going to be a lot of practice that I have to do each night to make sure I understand it. Our first test is already fast approaching, June 8, but the instructor has said that he will let us know as we going along each chapter, what will be on the test which is good. Plus we are able to use our books, notes, problems we worked on at home, etc to help us with it.

We also are able to do extra credit which is worth 5 points added to your final grade, which is cool. I'm going to try to do it since the instructor says you have to do it all or nothing, so I'm going to do it all as best as I can. Hopefully me being more focused and work harder this semester will kind of bring my GPA up some. I know it won't be a lot, but I'm determined not to go backwards.

Looking to Get Money For Your Textbooks?

I was searching online to find some websites to see if I could sell my textbooks, especially since it is summer time now and not really many students would pay any attention to online campus bulletins that are posted. I did a couple of bulletins for a few days with no bites, that's why I went online. I found a site called collegetextbooks.com and it is awesome I think. I was able to send 5 out of 7 or eight of the textbooks that I had and that was about a week or so ago. Today I got payment for those for $65 and some change. Although I wasn't able to get back as much as was paid for a couple of the books that I did out of pocket, but at least I got something for it. For the other books I found another site that you can donate or sell your textbooks at valorebooks.com. Both of these sites, you are shown how much they will give you for your books and I think you can either be paid by a check or through paypal, which is cool. So now I'm just waiting for about $20 or so from valorebooks, so in total I will eventually received about $85 which isn't bad. So I thought I would post this for those of you who are looking for other alternatives to selling your books.

I'm Ready for Classes to Begin Tomorrow

Well my financial aid for my books dropped in my account on Wednesday I think and so yesterday since I would be out with the kids anyway, I trucked it over to the campus bookstore to buy my textbooks. Although my business class that I'm taking had some used books, which I got, they were still expensive though, even though I'm not paying out of pocket for them. I'm weird, I know, somewhat complaining how expensive the books are, but I'm not actually paying for them.. lol. Anyway, it was over $200, not including the snacks and drinks that I got the kids along with that. So tomorrow it's back to learning, doing homework and writing, but hopefully not to much of the writing. :)

Well I Passed My Classes

And I'm really glad that I did. I am siked that I made a B in my Film Art class. I was really wondering on what I would get on the exam since some of the questions were the same as the midterm, but I couldn't study them because somehow I lost my midterm test, but I made a B on the exam. Yay! Now my accounting is another subject though. I made a D on that. It's a passing grade, but I think I lucked out on that though. I was really worried about if I made that grade or even an F, that it would really effect my GPA which was 2.03. Now it is a 2.07 I guess because of my Film Art class. I guess I am lucky to not get on probation and plus since I changed my major back to Computer Technology. Well, live and learn and keep working hard is what I try to go by.

Monday is when summer classes begin and this is a 10 week semester, so I bet it is going to fly by quickly. I only have two classes to take which I think I mentioned somewhere earlier in a post. Computers & Management and Jazz Appreciation. Hopefully my financial aid for the books will be ready before or on Monday so that I can get the 3 books that I need for the classes. What I have already would be a few dollars shy of getting them all, and I could really use the cash advance. The week off has been moving quickly, but I think that is because I am trying to keep myself busy with working my little jobs online plus getting out of the house with the kids when I can. So that soaks up some block of time until the evening, but I'm ready for Monday though. =)