Thursday, January 10, 2002

Thu
10
Jan
2002

Got My (Worthless) CollegeAmerica Diploma

Man, the highways were a mess on the way to town this morning. There were lots of tracks in the median from cars that went off the road. I saw a new truck munched on the side of the road by Strasburg. Apparently, the U-Haul trailer it was towing fishtailed and spun the dude around 180 ° before he slid off into the ditch. Then a couple of miles west of Bennett there was a multi-vehicle rollover accident. The highway was slicker than you-know-what along there. Most of the way after that was solid fog until I hit Aurora. Scary. It sounded like the worst of the storm hit North of the metro area, though, according to the accidents they were reporting on the radio. Most of these accidents wouldn't happen if people would just slow down a little. People also panic when they start to slide and overcorrect. Oh, well.

Well, I went to CollegeAmerica today and picked up my diploma. It's been ready for a few weeks but I've just been dreading going there to get it. I wanted it mailed to me, but Nancy claimed they don't mail them unless its absolutely necessary. I still have such bitter feelings over what a waste of money and time that place was. The stupid placement chick only sends my resume to jobs that the stupid school nowhere near prepared me for. She seems to think that I'm ready to be the sole system administrator for an entire company. I refuse to waste the time of any company to follow up on the resumes she sends out like that. I picked up on of the employment newspapers a couple of days ago and found a new CollegeAmerica ad. What a joke. They claim that you could be a web designer or a Web Site Administrator or an Internet Specialist (whatever that is). They're still claiming they have business degrees--nevermind that the business department is practically nonexistent. I know I have a lot more that I have to learn and I would really like to pursue something like animation or graphics, but I was so burned that I'm afraid of going to a school to learn these things.