I recently enrolled at a local community college whom, I'm told, has a decent art program. I'm enough of a nerd that depth matters to me, so I decided to take full-on college-level art classes. In doing so, several interesting things happened: 1. I had to apply to go to college as an undergraduate. I already have a college degree in fact a graduate degree, so this was fun. It was online. A few days later, a 19-year-old called me and welcomed me to the college. "So, like, have you scheduled your Acuplacer Test yet?" "My what?" "Your Acuplacer test. Have you, like, scheduled it?" "Yeah . Um....I'm not going to take your test." She was flustered. "Oh. Um. Well, oh..." I rescued her. "I already have a college degree." She was happy to have been spared the inevitable confrontation and replied, happily, "you probably don't need to take the Acuplacer then." "No. I don't think so." ...
