Forty pounds of books and study guides. FORTY FUCKING POUNDS. Here is where the other college and school people laugh at me, so per-emptive "go fuck yourselves." I'm getting some certs for the first time, like, ever. I now realize what I hated most about school. Shit was so easy I never learned how to study. Then they made me do homework at home, and not in the 10 minutes before class and I checked out of education and coasted on a 1470 SAT score, no scholarships, not smart enough to really dig in and go to school and within 10 years I was lost and barely living. Now I an looking at a pile of IT cert books and then I look at the dude in the mirror and the fucker is laughing at my bitch ass. The goal is to have 3 of the 12(!) tests I want to take this year in the bag before the start of Summer, then work on the hard exams. And I get to pay for it to!