Day 29: Disappointment

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 28: Childish

I am taking a risk with this post, since I have family members who read my blog as well as close family friends.  But I am frustrated and angered right now at not just the medical community but also my mother.

For those of you who don’t know, my mom is sick.  In addition to severe rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, she also has a disease called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).  This disease is very similar to emphysema but is an accumulation of several factors that make it in many ways worse.  She has chronic bronchitis, severe asthma in addition to the symptoms of emphysema essentially.   She is on 2 litres of oxygen at all times, takes so many different medications, I can’t keep track of all their names or remember just exactly how many there are that she takes in a day.  She also chooses to still smoke.  I know addiction is a disease, and she says she really wants to quit, but after a comment she made to me once, I can’t help but wonder just how much she wants too.

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