School's out for summer!

I just took the second and last exam for the online VisualBasic.NET course I've been taking this semester. So that's finished. Done. Finis.

I'll be getting an A, because I have a total of 98 out of the 100 possible points for the entire course. Not that it was a great feat; the assignments for this course were pretty pathetic. Oh, I did drop 1 point on an assignment (most of them were worth 6 points) mid-course; a minor feature in the program wasn't working quite right and I said to hell with it and submitted it anyway because it was due and I didn't have any more time to screw around with it. The other point I lost on today's test by getting two out of 40 multiple-choice and T/F questions wrong. (I could have gotten 18 of them wrong and still gotten an A.) **Shrug** One of them was worded ambiguously and I knew it was a crapshoot whether I got it right or not. The other one, IMNSHO, was scored incorrectly. My answer was correct, dammit. But it's hardly worth bitching about to get a 98.5 instead of a 98.

Will I take VB.NET II next fall? Dunno. On the one hand, this course only got mildly interesting in the very last chapter it covered. Arguably, that means the next course might actually be worthwhile now that the (very) basics are out of the way. On the other hand, I could just go ahead and work through the rest of the book (it's used for both courses) myself and learn anything there is to be learned there, and save the $300 tuition. On the gripping hand (5 points if you got that reference), self-study doesn't confer any visible credentials, which is why I started taking courses in the first place.

Thankfully, however, the bloody course isn't offered this summer, so I don't have to feel guilty for not furthering my education just yet.

School's ... out ... forever!