How many college classes you think is easy to manage during a semester while serving?

As I !may have said, family matters in doing school, if you're on your own, it's easier, with family it's a whole lot harder, as you have to plan how to avoid distractions, you need to set time aside. For every hour you're in lecture, you need to figure on, minimum, three hours a day of outside work. Online takes a WHOLE lot of self discipline, and NOTHING can substitute for a proper lecture, by a proper lecturer, that's why for undergrad, online generally doesn't work,in my view, maybe I'm old fshuoned, however, I've been a serious student my entire existence, since I was in utero, so trust me, I know the Ford and I know the agaknsts, and if you can go to a physical school, with physical lecturers, labs, classes, the real deal, do it, OK? Next, here are the basic rules as to credits: For undergrad, to be dee!ed full time, which you're NOT going to be able to do, in my view, while working, 12 credits is the absolute minimum, to get your loans, at least in my experience. If you're Guard or Reserve, you've gotta figure on drills, maybe deployment, and your college, unless you've got a really good vet affairs off, is gonna give you beaucoup aggravation about taking time off unless they understand how the svcs work, so pick a school that's SVC fteindly, and get to know the vet advsiros, if you need an incomplete and time to get work done, ask them, ask advisors, ask chairs, ask deans, ask provosts, not just faculty, faculty loathe in completes, they're more work for them, well, you're SVC, and that's their jobz so that's too bad, you're defending them, that'# how I see it, they should too, in my view. Next, if you're having aggravation, you need to know the drop rules for your school inside and out. You need to know, semester by semester, when you have to have a drop form signed by, and when a drip form needs to be in by, rose dates change semester by semester, and that's on you to find out, not the school, no way outta that, that's on you, kid. Next, if you drop, which you're likely gonna need to do at some point, many schools, if you need to redo a course, can waive tuition the second go round, if you do it the next time it'd be offered, so ask, that's also on your, kid. Promise, BTDT, OK? So, here's the truth, if you're working, forget full time, ain't gonna happen, forget it, you're gonna blow it, totally, I k ow, I idid, and I was really pretty good, I was serious, I was dedicated, and, like the saying goes, only a fool doesn't know their limits honest, OK? If you're working, you're stuck with one, maybe two courses a se!ester, period, and believe me, you'll be lucky to get those done, and do them right, with a full time job. If you're working part time, or are Guard or Reserve, then maybe three, maybe four courses, most courses tend to be three credits, a credit is an actual contact hour per week generally, that's the way colleges are designed? When you're undergrad 12 credits is full time, when you're grad school level, coursework is generally harder, and people work, so the law accounts for that by lowering the requirement to nine credits a semester. Some schools also do semesters, others do quarters, you need to know that. Of you need time off for a midterm or final, you need to plan for that, you need a boss sympathetic tomyiur desire to do well, pet alone pass, which is why taking stuff your boss PR bosses can actually use is gonna be a whole lot easier to convince them to let you prep for, that:s just life, KO'd. Now, humanities, social sciences, that's just something you're gonna have to live with kids, alp college students have to do them, there are no exceptions, so just accept it, learn from those topics, absorb them to enlarge your mind, and move on. So, having said all that, now I need more from you? Major? Majors? Associates? Bachelors? Grad school? Ambitions? Objectives? Senior enlisted? Warrant. Commissioned? Field? MOS or AFSC? Do you want to stay Army? Would you go interservice if another opportunity came your way? Do you want to try for the full 20 yrs? Do you want to do your time and go civilian? Do you want Guard? Reserve? Guard tech? Reserve tech? AGR? You need to discuss alp that, kid, the more you give, the more all of us can answer here, so help us help you, as I may have said, and take the time to elaborate, OK? It'll help us help you, honest...use us, benefit from us, but benefit by giving us adequate info so we can help you try to succeed, OK? Those are !y thoughts, such as they are, at least for now, I'm Jere if you want to ask anything, I know I gave you a lot, I get that, I generally do when I encou ter questions like yours, however, I do it to try to help and teach, so far as I can, honest, OK? Give me your thoughts, of be eager to hear more, honest, OK?

Now, next, you didn't say what MOS you are, we'd all need to k ow that, first and foremost, as it's REALLy hard to take coursework in something you're not being paid to do. Not impossible, just rough, I assure you, really rough. Bosses are all the more inclined to help you, if what you're learning helps them, that's just reality. Further learning more about what you're being paid to do helps you do a better job for them, that's just trutyh. At the same time, you've gotta turn lemons into lemonade, so, you need to squeeze every bit of bang out of your buck. That being said, here's what I need to know to help you, OK? What major or possible majors do you want? Associates? Bachelors? Grad school? How much college have you done yet, incl AP stuff in high school? Do you want purely vocational, PR academic, there's a very real difference in approach, a college isn't a tech school, it's not a vocational school, and if you try to treat it in that fashion, you're in for a fairly rapid and quite rude awakening, I assure you? Also, here are a few basic rules, you can drive and you can work, you can work and you can go to school, and you can go to school and you can drive, however, short of you having a big red cape on your back and having a big red "S" in your chest, few humans can work, drive, and go to school, all at once. So, if you installation has an education off, use it. If they bring in programs there, use them, if you can, they're easierz they're more convenient you'll get less fatigued. If where you are has schools off grounds, fine, as long as they're drivable close to your installation, NOT far away, trust me, you'd be burning the candle at both ends, you're gonna burn out. And it ain't no fun, been here, done that (BTDT), kid, honest, I assure you. I did my first masters part time, it was a royal pain, u went to the wrong schoolls, did it the wrong way, took way too long to get it done, and wasted one humongous lot of time I didn't need to waste, so trust me, there's a WHOLE LOT to be said for physical convenience, when it comes to doing what you've got in mind, let me send this, then I'll send more, OK?

First it isn't about how many credits or courses a semester you'd take, that's part of it, not all of it. You didn't list your MOS, also, your question was way too vague for us here to be able to realistically help you. You need to do a really tpdetailed, thorough bio sketch, incl hobbies, reading, interests, college thus far, incl AP in high school as qwll. What MOS are you? What field or major do you want? A STEM field? Humanities? Social sciences? Clinical field? Your objectives? Ambitions? Senior enlisted? Warrant? Commissioned? To try to be allowed to stay in for the full 20 yes or more, or to do your time and get out and go civilian? Those are the things we all need to know here, we answer questions like yours all the time on here, and I always wind up having to say the same things, over and over and over again, you know? Now, I don't say that to not want to try to help you, all of us want to help you, however, you need to help us help you, as the saying goes, enlightened self interest is the greatest possible motivator, honest. So, let's start this over again, and this time, let's do it right, OK? Do you want to try for an academy or military college while in? Do you want to go to a civikoian school while in? I'm assuming you're working while doing school, also, if you've got a family, that'll complicate matters a good deal, not impossibly, however, in a way that you'd need to account for, marriage, kids, all that plays a part in how fast you can get done with a full associates and/or bachelors program, or grad school, and trust me, I've done it al, taken it all, more times than I like to even remember, I've been all over it, up, down, left, right, inside out, and sideways, every which way conceivable, I know all the tricks, all the rules, and I can teach them to you, however, for them to do you any palpable good, I need to j ow more, a whole lot more, OK? I'm total perm disabled, I did a double bachelors, triple masters, and a clinical doctorate with seven yrs of residency attempted in an allied health field before Imy disability in my seventh year, however, if it walks, crawls, talks, and flies, I've worked for it, in it, around it, on top of it, under it, around it, I've had every kind of boss one can possibly have, active duty, civil servant, industry, clinical, all of it, you name it, I've had it, OK? So, as I may have said, let me teach you the right way to do this, OK? Let !e send this, then I'll try to send more, OK?