I have news, I have enrolled in online college classes and will be spending the next 4-6 years working towards the completion of a Bachelor's Degree, and possibly a Master's as well. There is a wide range of time to complete these classes because it may be possible for me to double up on some classes, or I may have to spend my time working through one 5 week course at a time. I am hoping that I will double up on enough classes to complete both degree programs in no more than 5 years, however I am prepared to spend the full 6 doing my classes if I must.
I have several ideas of how I want to put this education to work for me, and the best part is that based on my degree program, and my plan I will be helping to provide for my family financially without having to sacrifice the things that are important to me. I suspect that some of the discussion questions that are assigned each week will likely spark some interesting blog posts, and I am quite excited to get started.
I will be spending the first couple of weeks in an orientation course, and then I will take two introductory courses, and then I get to work on my general education requirements. Some of my courses I am quite looking forward to, as they sound quite fascinating, and I hope that they are just as interesting as I think they will be.
I am quite confident that I will do quite well in my classes. I plan to work on my classes mostly in the evening after my husband gets home from work, and potentially when he is sleeping and I am sitting up trying to sleep. I will sneak my course readings in while my older boys are working on their homeschooling, which can provide me with a great tool for keeping them focuses. I have set up an area in my bedroom where I can have quiet and space to spread out my work and complete assignments, and I have the full support of my husband, who says he will take the children to the park during his days off if I need some quiet time to get a difficult assignment completed.
I am a bit nervous about writing papers though, as the school requires all my work to be in APA format, and I have never before used that format. Thanks to the great expanse of the internet I was able to find lots of information about it, and I am confident that I am teachable and can learn this at least well enough to submit high quality assignments. My school also provides many resources for me, so I believe I have all the information I need, it's just a matter of applying it correctly. I did discover in a quick English Assessment that I really need to brush up on my punctuation skills as I do not put commas in the proper places, and forget semi colons (honestly I don't have the foggiest idea what a semi colon is for other than making smiley faces).
I put this here, because I do best on accomplishing something when I write it out, and tell others...so I am telling all of blogger land! Thank You for listening to me ramble about it.
