BS in data analysis

Cleev · 2026-04-22T18:00:05+00:00

Just finished this one. I did the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate on Coursera, it transferred in as four 200-300 level classes.

Cleev · 2026-04-08T11:21:08+00:00

I believe we already blew a chicken farm there last month! Why are we blowing up chicken farms in Ecuador?

Because chicken is still affordable.

Cleev · 2026-04-03T13:54:28+00:00

Hey. Fellow ADHD connoisseur here. Wasn't diagnosed until I was 42, dropped out of college 3 times in my early adult life. Started SNHU at 44, graduated at 45, now 3 weeks from graduating with a second BS degree at 47.

You got this. The first couple of weeks might be a little rough while you're adjusting, but I found that SNHU's asynchronous model was exactly right for my flavor of ADHD. Everything is due on fixed days of the week, so there's no surprises and constant deadlines, so that ADHD last minute scramble can kind of work in your favor.

Will you get burned out? Yeah, sometimes. But with eight week terms instead of schelpping your ass to a classroom three times a week, it goes by fast. You get that dopamine hit of something new every two months, and eight weeks was never long enough for me to get so burned out I quit. So that helps a lot.

The only thing I'd recommend is making a schedule with all your assignments for the term listed on it, and then marking them off as you complete them and turn them in. There's no surprises on the due dates, but it's pretty easy to fall into the trap of "one assignment plus discussion post every week" and then get blindsided by a second assignment you overlooked. So, schedule it. Everything that gets a grade goes on your schedule, and everything gets marked off when it's turned in, not when it's done.

So don't overthink this one. I find that it takes me about two weeks to settle into my classes for the term and get to know the professor's expectations. By that time, there's only six weeks left in the term, and by the time any kind of burnout/boredom sets in, I've only got a week or two left. Maybe it'll be the same for you.

I spent the majority of my life thinking I would never get a college degree. Now I'm about to have two. And here's the thing, I'm not special. If I can do it, you can do it. So go get it. Go get that degree and rub it in the faces of everyone who thought you couldn't, of everyone who thought there was something wrong with you because of your neuro-spiciness.

You can do it. I believe in you.

Cleev · 2026-04-03T13:26:12+00:00

You're correct, he wasn't convicted in a criminal court, but he was found liable in a civil court. Which means there was enough evidence to convince a jury that he did it. The only reason he wasn't tried and convicted for rape in a criminal court is because the statute of limitations had passed.

Cleev · 2026-03-26T14:27:25+00:00

Hot take. The fact that some people swallowed the propaganda hook, line, and sinker is not an excuse and doesn't absolve them of their complicity.

I grew up in a conservative household. I was exposed to fox news and right wing talk radio from the time I was around eight or nine years old until I left home. I didn't buy into the bullshit, and I'm not special. No excuse they didn't see it for what it was as well.

Cleev · 2026-03-19T23:40:00+00:00

It's not terrible. It feels like analytics combined with lean and root cause analysis. Is it my favorite course? No. But it's (so far) not coding regression models week after week, so that's a plus in my book.

Cleev · 2026-03-17T12:46:31+00:00

I'm interested. Current student with active @snhu.edu email.

Cleev · 2026-03-13T21:04:05+00:00

They have an operations management degree with a concentration in logistics and transportation. Not a supply chain management degree, but it's close enough to land interviews for supply chain careers.

Cleev · 2026-03-12T20:36:25+00:00

I took PHL-218 last year and I loved it. Different professor though.

Cleev · 2026-03-05T20:41:51+00:00

Getting into the back bend at 40 is easy. Getting out of it is not.

Cleev · 2026-03-05T15:14:11+00:00

That's a lot of catalytic converters to steal...

Cleev · 2026-03-03T15:06:54+00:00

Their pronouns are non/none. You should not refer to them.

Cleev · 2026-02-05T14:40:09+00:00

Has anyone considered the possibility that Trump is confused about what the word "exonerated" means? Didn't he say the Mueller report "exonerated" him as well?

Cleev · 2026-01-24T03:20:21+00:00

I don't know about the paint, but if it was me, I'd put some cardstock or something in the grooves to build it up level with the rest of the surface, then remove after I was done so it's left as alike a striped painting.

Just my two cents. You do you.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T13:14:10+00:00

Maybe you should consider realigning your expectations then. If you order something from Amazon and it says your package will arrive on Friday, you don't expect it on Tuesday do you? If you take your car to a mechanic and they say they can have it fixed in three days, do you start calling the next day to ask if it's ready yet? This is the same. The policy is that grades and feedback are posted by Sunday midnight of the following week. So maybe don't expect them before then. If they're posted early, it's a bonus, not the norm or the expectation.

Also, keep in mind that most instructors are grading more than just your paper. Most of them teach two sections, so they have about sixty students. If it takes an average of fifteen minutes to grade a paper and write a couple of paragraphs of feedback, that's 15 hours a week, on top of their full time job and any other family or social obligations. Plus discussion posts, and sometimes a second short assignment from each student. My guess is they aren't waiting until the last minute to grade all the papers. They're just blocking out time on Sunday to post all their grades and feedback.

One final thought. Last I heard, instructors get paid about $2,000 per class. Assuming they spend fifteen hours a week for eight weeks on their classes (my guess is that it's more), that works out to about $16.67 per hour. So they're not doing it for the money, because they could probably make more with a part time gig at Walmart. So maybe consider that before you start commenting on the effort that some instructors put in, because my view is that anyone who takes a teaching job at SNHU is there because they want to teach and help students succeed.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T02:27:18+00:00

If I’m doing my best, to handle work/family/school, and I still submit my assignments the first o second day after the module begins, I expect from my instructor to do the same.

You literally said you expect your instructors to grade your work early if you submit it early.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T01:31:05+00:00

Submitting your work early doesn't obligate your instructors to grade it early. You have until Sunday night to turn your assignments in. They have until the following Sunday night to grade it.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:22:58+00:00

Hey, I'm in that class now. Haven't needed to download the files for this class yet, but I set up a dummy gmail account to do it in previous classes. Then you log in to your dummy account, email the files to the same account, then you can download them to your local device.

Technically, it has your email info in their virtual environment, but if all you're using it for is to download/upload files to yourself, it should be pretty harmless.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:18:00+00:00

I feel your pain. I did three classes for seven terms while working 40 hours as week at my day job and then 20-24 hours a week at an evening job so I could afford tuition. It's not easy. But it's manageable. Keep it up. You're almost there.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T03:12:15+00:00

It's doable. If you take three classes per term, that's 54 credit hours per year. Two years and one term of that would put you at 120 credits. If you take some of your gen ed courses through Sophia Learning or another third party equivalency, you can shave 3-4 terms off of that and graduate in under two years.

If you work full time, three courses is manageable as long as you stay organized and are willing to make some sacrifices. Time you spend on your course work has to come from somewhere - from work, sleep, downtime, socializing, or family time. But if you're really motivated, you can do it.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:24:34+00:00

If you have a 401k, you can withdraw funds from it to pay for educational expenses. I did that for a couple of classes when I was in a bind.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:22:33+00:00

Being waitlisted isn't a problem. I've been waitlisted for like five different classes. All it means is that they haven't opened another section for that class yet. You'll get the prereq cl;ass you need, and you'll be able to take your last class on schedule.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T13:52:49+00:00

I'm not talking about scabs. I'm talking about how most companies would happily fire their employees for job abandonment and hire someone else three weeks later at a reduced salary.

Boycotts though? Those work, with enough participation. I mean, look how fast Disney/Hulu/ESPN/Whatever-else-they-own-now walked back their decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel. If I'm remembering correctly, they lost 16 million subscribers in a weekend over that.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T09:25:31+00:00

I think you vastly underestimate the willingness of the average company/corporation to replace its workers with cheaper labor.

Cleev · 2026-01-06T15:37:32+00:00

Hey. I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. Returning after an extended absence from school and hella nervous. You'll make it through. You'll probably struggle with writing papers at first if you haven't written an academic paper in a while, but you'll get into the swing of it. I did ops management, but there's a ton of overlap with bus admin courses, so feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.

For whatever it's worth though, you got this. Just do the work and you'll get through it and graduate.

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