<p>Hi everyone, I am a new lawyer and I really, really hate it. I’ve done public defender and divorce law so far. I’ve also seen the inner workings of many types of law and am starting to doubt that I made the right career choice.</p>
<p>I tend to make things for fun, mostly simple stuff like leather crafting or even loom knitting. My most advanced project was setting up a solar panel with some batteries. The other day, I was thinking to myself, if I am building things for fun after work, maybe this is a sign that I should just get it over with and head back to school. I was thinking about doing mechanical engineering since I like to design and build things and (correct me if I’m wrong) it seems to be a field where one can get a job with only an undergraduate degree, since I do not see myself going through grad school again.</p>
<p>This is because I am getting a little old here. I started researching this and apparently it is possible to take a placement test to pass through the early stages of undergraduate math. I hope I don’t come across as arrogant, but I am very smart (in some ways) and could probably make it through undergraduate level courses at an accelerated rate. I was thinking that taking a math placement test could be a good way to get myself started. As a college graduate I’ve already done my GEs at a state school, so ideally with summers and a large course load I might be able to get an undergraduate engineering degree within two years if all goes well.</p>
<p>Even so, I’m not smart enough to just sit down and take the placement test. I need a good resource to brush up on and improve my math skills, so that I don’t take the placement test and fail it or anything ridiculous like that. I would ideally like to go into the placement test knowing how I will score on it. So I am wondering if anyone on the forum might direct me to some good online math courses that one can take at their own rate, for pre-calculus stuff so that I can score well on the placement test and begin a return to school with calculus. The placement test for my area is called ALEKS by the way, in case that helps anyone.</p>
<p>Thank you :)</p>