Education on the road?

I go to Kent state University. I was attending classes working about 6-9 credit hours a semester while working full time before I became a driver. I found I actually have more time in the truck to do a full 12-14 credit hours in the truck via online courses and maintain a respectable GPA. I'm off for this semester while I transition back from local to OTR again, when I went local I ended up flunking my classes in my spring semester of this year because my boss had me on so many hours. Nonethless getting pretty close to having a bow on these puppies...then come the student loan repayments...that will be a dark day.

Beyond work on my bachelors and my associates I read a lot of non fiction, love history books. Got big into the cold war a few years back and can't put down a book when it involves things like nuclear techno-cratic BS.

Read overdrive, CCJ, the trucker, Landline, CDL life, Fleet owner and TPS, every day after I read my local newspaper from back home. TTR obviously, always digging back into threads from years ago trying to absorb as much as I can. And I like to keep current with the dealings on the truck papers.

I'm seriously considering getting into some Spanish language software since I'm gonna be pretty free with not having classes this coming semester and it would be a huge plus at some point or another, I'm sure.

That's about it, unless you count practicing zippo lighting tricks and trying to learn how to wolf whistle. Why the #### is it so hard to wolf whistle? Seriously? Why did god make me with gorilla hands incapable of doing this?! IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE.

 

Here's some good sources of learning:

world-newspapers.com

crienglish.com

University of Nevada @ Las Vegas - online courses

Las Vegas University - online courses

University of Phoenix - online courses

 

Every day of life we learn. Open your mind and be willing to look, listen and comprehend.

Just today from watching on youtube I learned that Romans had window glass in their windows. Totally new to me, here I thought in the time of medieval kings were the first glassed windows.

 

I love to read in my free time. Fiction and non-fiction. Digital and analog books. I read several online news sites daily and the majority of my time driving is spent listening to public radio or podcasts about science or history (I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History). I don't have a TV in my truck or in my home, so reading is my main source of entertainment.

 

If you hang out in the drivers lounge of many truck stops you will get an education. Shootouts by the u.s. Marshalls, dot stories, and some entertaining lot lizard tales.

 

That's true, the drivers lounge is where many former CIA agents hang out. You can learn the true story of what really happened in various spy/war situations if you eavesdrop on them talking to the former Navy Seals and Delta Force guys. Then the former Air America pilot chimes in about how he flew them behind enemy lines and dropped them off which was easy, but the bad part was going back in to pick them up under withering machine gun fire.

 

I find studying while driving to rate up there with texting. When Im parked Im out bicycling around Hunts Point cuz the locals are so friendly.

 

Oh yeah. I had no idea that there are hundreds of thousands of ex-special forces and Navy SEALs, Rangers, Delta operators, and special warfare pilots who became truck drivers. They'll happily share their secret experiences with anyone who asks, too.

 

But if they tell you about what they did, they'll have to shoot you.