Once I’m settled into my cybersecurity job next year, I’m planning on going to Bowie State University for my masters degree in organizational communications, which is a personal interest of mine and nothing to do with IT.

Just so you know I was pressured into going into an online accredited college because they were concerns about me falling behind with my classes and that I might flunk out if I’m on my own. But it wasn’t that simple. I was just discontent with my major. I was forced to do it in order to get help finding a job faster with something more practical and stable.

So I begrudgingly attended UMGC in order to appease. I know I was just being protected from being overwhelmed and all but in retrospect, I still don’t think it was necessary and healthy for me to stay home. That’s why I have mixed emotions about my college experience. I just regret going to umuc and my major.

Umuc was academically but socially, it was boring. There were mainly older people, married, vets that I saw on hybrid classes. Nobody closer to my age. No social organizations, no sporting events and live homecomings.