progress report

So far, each step has been easier than expected.  As far as school and financial aid, it's all been straight-forward, and much more simple than I was prepared to deal with.  Getting mental health assistance has been a bit more problematic, but so far I haven't really needed it.  I suspect it will be more important, when I'm attempting to start classes and all that.  About four months from now, so I have some time to prepare.

Have to take an academic assessment, and apparently, algebra has been a common stumbling block.  I have until Wednesday to figure out what algebra is¹ but on Monday, I have an appointment for the linguistic assessment.  I'll be surprised if I have any problems there.

I clearly have more of an aptitude for the latter, yet plan on doing as little of it as possible.  Whatever I choose to do, I'll always be able to write about it, but I'm much more interested in science.  While it's less intuitive than blogging, I've never really had problems with math.  Aside from not being able to just wing it the same way.

I'm actually looking forward to finding out how well I can make up that difference.  Given the STEM focus I'm going for, I'll have to start with a lot of math.

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¹ I know what algebra is. 
From the Arabic al-jabr.  From the 9th century works of al-Khwarizmi, 
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with math.