Well, Carrie, first time online learner and first time blogger. Honestly never read a blog or even seen one before this. So this blogging thing is going to be something else. I absolutely love to listen to music, so I am now glad to know that this is actually a learning preference! Listening to my I-Pod now. \u00a0It calms me and helps with writing my many different assignments and discussions. I also love to read and write, so this explains why I’ve excelled in things of this nature. I live in a very hot and dry area so doing my school work outside is a little undo-able considering I’m 7 months pregnant. This is very upsetting to me because that outside air is just so amazing to work in. I wish I had a lake or river near by I could take my laptop to and just type away. The closest I get to nature is having one or all of my 5 pets laying next to me (which can be very distracting because they’re just so darn cute!).<\/p>\n
I was extremely surprised how fast the past few weeks have gone by. When you have so much on your mind sometimes you forget what needs to come first. So I really need to sit down and make a schedule for everything in my life so I don’t procrastinate in any aspects of life. Full- time work, starting a family, and now throwing school into the mix is a lot more then I thought I could handle. But so far I am managing to make it through half alive. One of my biggest challenges is going to be having a newborn here shortly and not having the amount of sleep I am going to need to get through a day of work and school. My mother actually says I am insane for starting school now. I just tell her, “If your daughter can join the Marine Corps, she can do this.”, so we’ll see about that. Honestly when I first thought about taking online classes I thought to myself oh, this will be easy and my little sister (who is going to community college the old fashion way) still tells me the same thing. I try so hard to explain to her that is really isn’t that easy. You really have to apply yourself if you want to succeed. You have to study just as hard as you would if you were sitting in a classroom. Reading the readings isn’t enough. You have to read and continue to go back to those readings to fully grasp things. Another huge struggle is going to be stay focused on what I am doing in class. As of right now I’m joyfully singing Hopelessly Devoted to You (one of my favorite songs). So I guess you can say I’m easily distracted. So when my daughter comes along, its going to be really hard taring myself away from her.<\/p>\n
In the end, I know I will have every day struggles, as well as those huge struggles that can stop everything else in your life until you figure it out. But I say BRING THEM ON!!! I am extremely excited to walk onto that stage and receive my degree in a few years. I want my husband, daughter and my whole family to be proud of what I accomplished. And this is where it starts!<\/p>\n
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Well, Carrie, first time online learner and first time blogger. Honestly never read a blog or even seen one before this. So this blogging thing is going to be something else. I absolutely love to listen to music, so I am now glad to know that this is actually a learning preference! Listening to my… Continue reading