Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Unit 3 Being An Online Student

In high school when the educators emphasized college and tried to figure out what further education each of us wanted to pursue I knew that I wanted to do online college.  The reasons I knew is because I like being able to work at my own pace and on my own time with the few deadlines that school work is due.  There was no way I was going to commute 2 hours every day, live in the city the college is at, spend way too much money on housing and gas going to college, and most importantly I really did not want to be around the college atmosphere.  I am a big people person but I really didn't even care for being in the crowded environment of the high school let alone would I want to be around an even bigger crowd of people.  To me it seems there is so much drama with schools such as partying, groups/clicks, etc, I want to go to college to learn, not make friends or party.  One of the perks that I enjoy about being an online student is that I can move around and be anywhere and still do my school work.  last term I moved to California and then back to Washington, and now this term I've been doing the same, if I was going to a campus college I wouldn't have that flexibility.  In the future when I move again I don't have to worry about transferring colleges either I just have to stop along the way and get the school work turned in on time and attend the seminars.  One of the challenges that I personally have faced with online college is trying to figure out when the best time for seminar is.  If I schedule my classes at night I have the tendency to forget about it even with an alarm set, but if I set up my classes for in the morning I end up being cranky and tired all day and usually unproductive.  The day of the week makes a big difference too, when seminars are at the beginning of the week they are more helpful for doing the school work throughout the week.  This is only my third term of my first year so I have yet to really build my school connections yet even though the classes have us post our A.O.L. instant messenger names, and emails.  I have a terrible memory so at times it is really hard for me to remember everyone in class now or that I've shared classes with before and build any type of school relationship.  I don't really have any ideas on ways to create a closer class community, I think I just need to take more time to add everyone and get to know everyone.  Even just talking to a few class mates makes school feel a little less intimidating and a little easier to move forward.  Okay, well I would write more but one of my pets died today and I'm a little under the weather.  

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