Me? A College Graduate?!?!

So, when I started this whole "going back to school" thing, I thought I'd just get an associate's degree from Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) in accounting and start a business. If you've been reading this blog, then you know that changed several months ago when I decided that it would be better to work towards a bachelor's degree at the University of New Mexico (UNM). With that course in mind I ignored the course requirements for the accounting associate's degree since most of the classes don't transfer and I was missing classes I'd need to get into the Anderson School of Management (ASM) at UNM.

Imagine my surprise last Thursday (March 4th), when I learned that the CNM has a pre-management associate's degree that is basically all the classes needed to fulfill the ASM pre-requisites. (Side note: I actually knew about the degree before, but thought it would be a bunch of classes that didn't transfer like the accounting degree. Since I never researched it, I never realized what it really was.) Since, by the end of this term, I'll have all the pre-requisites done, I paid a visit to an academic advisor to see where I was in the program. The advisor showed me how I could run a degree audit on my own, and then went over the one we'd run together. I'm two classes shy of getting the pre-management degree!!!

The BBA degree program at ASM consists of certain core classes and two of them just happen to be available for transfer from CNM (cheaper classes.... YAY). I was planning on taking those two classes this summer at CNM and starting ASM in the fall. Yup, you guessed it... those are the two classes I'm missing for the pre-management degree... which means that by the end of the summer term I would be eligible for a college degree. It boggles the mind.....