I do the same things for studying boring material as I do when it comes to eating 'good-for-you' vegetables that taste nasty....I plug my nose & choke them down. Not always the most glamorous, but hey...it works for me...most of the time, anyway.

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Matymus Prime
Lincoln, NE
Excelsior College
B.S. General Business


~105 Credits down - 15 to go~

I think it's good to have a friend (or at least someone to talk to), that is educated/interested in history. I absolutely hate studying it or even writing papers on historical topics. My fiance is a huge history buff, and although as much as I don't want to admit it.. he rubs off on me. *It helped me get a B in US History since 1865.

My uncle also rubbed off on me. He is 60 y/o and an accountant. I don't see him much.. but last semester he helped me when I was in accounting. I was just overwhelmed while looking at the homework in the first chapter.. he looked at me (with his huge glasses) and said "you're thinking too much into it, it's not rocket science". Then it hit me and I never needed his help again.

Sometimes just having a person to put things into perspective is helpful. It helps on my part if the person is someone I can relate to.

I looove history! Actually US History II was my favorite clep. It's organizational behavior that killed my motivation. After asking Excelsior to approve Organizational Behavior back in May/June....I finally went ahead and paid for the exam. Just paid my final payment today. OCT- 5 months later! With my cleps I studied for 2-3 weeks and went ahead and took the tests. With this one....ugh. I hated it.

I am dreading having to take abnormal psychology, well, anything psych really. Ugh just not my cup of tea. I am looking forward to taking Rise and Fall of Soviet Union and the Civil War. I bought one of the books mentioned on this website for the Soviet Union exam. I loved it and am enjoying Ken Burns Civil War Series. That got me pumped up. Still trying to plan my strategy. Don't know if I should go ahead and get all the ones that bore me to death out of the way and then save all the courses I really am interested in for last or vice versa.

But like another poster stated, maybe I'll do an interesting one inbetween the dry ones. Civil War after Organizational Behavior perhaps. In any case I made a promise to myself never to wait 5 months to take a test again!

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Well, I finished (passed) all of my history classes. So, guess what I figured out? It's less study time and FASTER if you learn it now! See, you'll have this demon with you for a month or a year- your choice!

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

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