well. time to get busy.

[rmd]

Well, I'm in. Now, to see if I've learned enough coping skills to actually wrangle a course of study.

Dear $RMDREALNAME
It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been accepted into Northeastern University's College of Professional Studies Master of Professional Studies in Informatics program.

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Congratulations! I don't think you'll have to worry about the studying, though...

One of the things I noticed when I went back to do my own master's degree (an MBA) a few years ago is that IT professionals, as a group, had less trouble with the studying than most of our classmates from non-IT backgrounds. We speculated that, since most IT careers are essentially continuous learning programs, we were simply far more practiced at studying (and had been doing it far more recently) than our non-IT classmates.

Also, as a group, when it came to applying some new knowledge or skill, those of us with IT background were far more likely to "just try it" or "do the parts we know how to do, see how far we get, and then look again at what's left" than our non-IT colleagues. I guess that comes from IT being, in general, a much more experiment-driven profession than many others; it's relatively easy for IT folks to just try something to see how well it works, as opposed to say an architect or a doctor; if our "experiment" works, we scale up or deploy, but if it doesn't, buildings don't fall down and people don't die. Generally.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

well, i had staggeringly ADD-style flakiness for much of my decade of undergraduate. i've gotten a lot better as far as coping skills and such, but i've got a long track record of utterly flaking out about school-related things.

the first class i'm taking is actually a technical class that is pretty much all known material - what i'm testing is my ability to 1. take a class at all, and 2. to do so with something as unstructured as online classes.