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Day 29: Disappointment

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Recently, I’ve become disappointed and disenchanted with my school.   I guess that a lot of it stems from ever increasing tuition costs coupled with my current instructor’s lack of assistance and input in the class. Prior to this class, I guess I thought that those who were “instructing” the classes were as equally invested in my learning and future as I was.  But thus is the downfall of online college I suppose.   I had a situation with my computer that resulted in me not being able to complete a quiz I was taking.  I asked the instructor for help with the situation and was pretty much told she couldn’t do anything.  It took her over a week to respond to my initial email and after she finally did, I asked her what other options I had available to me since she wouldn’t reset the quiz for me.  Her reply has been non existent.  And as a result, my grade in the class is going to be much lower than I expected it to be, all due to a single quiz that I wasn’t able to complete.

I started looking around here to see what other options I’d have available, should I choose to transfer but some of the local colleges have even higher tuition rates than what I am currently paying.  In addition to that, working 1st shift doesn’t really work well with school.  So for now, until other options open up for me, I am stuck with my current school.  Hopefully, filing a complaint with the registrars office will help it so that other students don’t have the same experiences with the instructor that I have had and potentially even help me when I am forced to contest my grade.

 

Day 27: Returning

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I am sorry I’ve been away for a couple of weeks.  In my last post, I wrote about how it was the anniversary of my father’s passing away.  During this time of year, I always tend to get a little melancholy and really have to struggle to bring myself back from that dark place.  But that is only a portion of the reason for my absence.

Besides being a little down, I also started my first math class in ohhhh about 10 years or so?  In five weeks, we’re covering everything from simple prime numbers to quadratic equations to geometry to statistics and interest rates.  In otherwords, we’re covering in five weeks what originally was taught to me in 5 years.  Its been a little insane and difficult.

Things have been good for me otherwise.  Work is still going strong and I am really working hard to make some positive changes in my diet and lifestyle.  So far the fruits of my labor has equated to at least 10 pounds lost and a HUGE boost in energy.  I feel the best I have in years and my next step, now that I’ve conquered my diet, is to conquer my lack of exercise.  Due to limited funds, everything has to be done in steps but already I am feeling the difference!