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Self-study

Jun 26, 2026
Sequencing a Cloud Engineering Degree: AAS Done, WGU Next
I finished my associate's in cloud computing this spring. Here's the honest plan for turning it into a bachelor's in Cloud and Network Engineering, how I'm sequencing the pre-load, and the parts I still can't control.
Jun 24, 2026
I learn the math by programming it: a TI-84 library and going back to school
I went back to school as an adult and started teaching myself computer science through CS50x. Somewhere in the middle of College Algebra I figured out the trick that works for me: I don't really understand a thing until I've programmed it. So I built a small library of TI-84 calculator programs, and the building is what taught me the math.