Am I addicted?

[Shadowless]

All I think about, well not all but I spend a majority of time thinking about clep and dante tests. Even after I pass one and I'm full of joy and happyness for a day or two I again start thinking about the next one I can take and hopefully pass. Am I greedy? Does anyone feel like this? Right now I am at work and plan on studying for Organizational Dante and try to take that Tuesday. I just wish there was a way we could take these tests from our home computer but obviously cheating would hinger that from happening.

I guess part of me wants to take these tests because now I see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of actually obtaining an Bachelors degree.

[certifiednetpro]

Yes, you are addicted. Everybody else on this forum is too. And no, the feeling does not go away when you attain your bachelors degree. You then move up to the hardcore stuff. Masters and Phd. The only cure is continuos self improvement. Welcome to the club.

[april004]

Same here. I promised myself that after taking ECE Organizational Behavior I would give myself a few days to relax. Not even one hour after taking that ECE exam I was sitting @ the book store sipping my coffee and studying for the next one!

When I am not studying I'm on the internet....browsing at forums like this one!

[ImustStudy]

I must confess, I am an Instantcert and CLEP addict.

[snazzlefrag]

Originally Posted by Shadowless

All I think about, well not all but I spend a majority of time thinking about clep and dante tests. Even after I pass one and I'm full of joy and happyness for a day or two I again start thinking about the next one I can take and hopefully pass. Am I greedy? Does anyone feel like this? Right now I am at work and plan on studying for Organizational Dante and try to take that Tuesday. I just wish there was a way we could take these tests from our home computer but obviously cheating would hinger that from happening.

I guess part of me wants to take these tests because now I see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of actually obtaining an Bachelors degree.

Shadowless,

You're on the Slippery Slope, there's no turning back now!

The Slippery Slope

Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter,
Snazzlefrag

[chromo]

Hello, my name is Chris, and I am also an addict. Loved the story, snazzlefrag! Tomorrow I will begin a 4-day weekend off from work......which I will spend mostly in a Days Inn near the closest testing center that offers CBT DSSTs (because I require instant gratification). I have 3 scheduled, but I am way underprepared for 1 of them. If someone had told me a year ago that I would be taking days off from work to take tests I would have told them they were crazy. Watch out!

[cookderosa]

I tried to stop. I took 13 exams..... I enrolled in classes. I was done. I even posted a hooray that I took my last CLEP. But I didn't stop coming here- I didn't delete the link... I should have quit. Instead, I decided that I'll take the CLEP biology in early spring, afterall, it's different credit than the BIO101 that I am enrolled in...so, might as well right

[mstcrow5429]

Originally Posted by Shadowless

All I think about, well not all but I spend a majority of time thinking about clep and dante tests. Even after I pass one and I'm full of joy and happyness for a day or two I again start thinking about the next one I can take and hopefully pass. Am I greedy? Does anyone feel like this?

I feel this way, except the "joy and happiness" only lasts 20 minutes. It's being driven to finish something up so that you can move onto the next thing, rinse, repeat. Or it is for me, anyways. If I don't work, I feel like crap. I feel like crap a lot.

[highlanderburial]

Here is my attempt at humor with this thread.

David Letterman's Top Ten Signs you might be addicted to college testing:

10) Your internet favorites include several military testing, and dantes websites and you don't even know anyone in the military.

09) You have checked your college's website on a Saturday in the hopes that a testing registrar has come in to work for some flukish overtime and input your test scores.

08) You read about tests on IC that you have absolutely no intention of taking.

07) If you have ever sworn like you have some kind of Torret's syndrome when answering a practice test question on IC and gotten it wrong because of a spelling mistake.

06) (Military People) While playing the lottery you have accidentally entered your college's numeric code, and worried wether the #2.5 pencil your using will be dark enough.

05) While taking a survey online, you have hesitated pushing the "send" button for fear that you have not answered all the questions to the best of your ability...

04) If your signature line takes longer to write down with test scores than it does to actually study for a test.

03) Even though nothing has changed,you have re-tabulated your necesary credit requirements on a piece of scratch paper hoping a new strategy will reveal itself to you or that somehow you have miscounted.

02) Your seriously thinking about taking the FEMA course "Farm Animals in disasters part 1" to knock out that one last professional studies credit by transferring it through three different colleges.

01) If you have ever protested the cost of Excelsior's Information Literacy course as you purchase another 500 bucks in REA and Dummies books!

-I don't exhibit all of these but the Saturday one is pretty close!
Great thread by the way!
-HB

[snazzlefrag]

I love it!

Very funny HB. A couple of them made me actually laugh out loud. Ironically, it's 2:51am and I am up checking the latest postings on the Instantcert forum. That's GOT to be some kind of sign that I am addicted.


Thanks for making me laugh tonight,
snazzlefrag