about this class

my final project wasn’t that best it could have been and i know that. I have been so tired and not in the mood to do anything lately. No, i am not pregnant. My glasses broke so i am blind and its horrible because i am only 19 and i have to sit a foot from the screen to see and still squint at times. I can’t drive, i cant see, i can’t do anything because the earliest they could get me in is February 9th which is crazy!. I haven’t really felt up to finishing any work in my 2 classes considering i was failing them anyway even though i know i could have passed this class easier if i would have tried. Its just been so busy and my mind hasn’t been in place lately. With school going through Christmas and New years, it is the second busiest time of the year. The first is the summer so hopefully i can pull my head out of my bum and get back on the right track like i was when i first started school. My daughter’s future depends on it and that’s what kills me when i don’t finish my assignments. Time to get back on the right track!

blogging future

So the professor wants to know, do you plan to continue your blog even after the course? Yes actually i do. I’m too cheap to by a journal ^^ and i actually have a tab for my blog on my desktop drop down menu on the top. Its a newer computer and it has windows 7 and i think that's how i got it because of my new hard drive. Anyway, its easy access and whenever i get the itch to write about something, anything, i can and its all right there for me. This was actually a great idea to keep a blog in this class. It was very fun and interesting.

My take on peer review

So out of the four questions the professor asked i chose “How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?”

So peer reviews make me nervous. They make me embarrassed and make me feel like i want to rip up my paper and not show them or just hide under a table somewhere until its all over with. Yes a little extreme but its true. When it comes to peer reveiw i am a chicken. Thoughts are going through my mind like crazy. “What are they going to think about it? Are they going to laugh at me later after they have told their friends how horrible it was? Are they going to think i am “not the brightest” because i can’t write a stupid paper?” Yes i am paranoid, i always have been. I’m not the type to care about what people think or say about me but when it comes down to something like this then yeah, i freak out. So far i haven’t had any bad experiences. Except, back in high school, we had to peer review and help them change what needed to be changed. I had to switch with someone i didn’t get along with and that was a bad idea. She told me to do something and change it, you know, the basics. Well silly me fell for it, thinking she was trying to help since it was a school thing. Nope, i was wrong, she told me to do something that wasn’t even right and i got a D on the paper. Wasn’t a very happy camper i can tell you that much.

The last six weeks of my life

Being that its around christmas time its been very busy. Shopping, visiting family, getting everything situated in life in general. For some reason i haven't been in the mood for doing school work. I'm thinking its because i have taken this class and my other one before i just ended up taking them over because my computer's hard drive got shot from my daughter spilling water on it. I'm also having financial difficulties so i am working on getting a part time job to help with the bills. Its not working out to my advantage living in a small town and the economy sucking!

How school is influencing my life

School is influencing my life in good and bad ways. I just want to finish but i know that in the end it will all be worth it. Having a full time job is hard at this point because it would be too hard for me to be a single mom of a toddler, have a full time job, and keep up with school. I have to schedule my life around school. In the end it will have influenced my life in a good way because i will have a career and a good life for my daughter and I.

Plagerism

Question of the week from Professor Manning, "What would you do if someone used something you created without giving you credit?" Well, if someboday stole something that i did and took ALL the credit for you it, i will not be quite about it, believe-you-me, (thats Wisconsin "slang" for you best believe it, just in case you didnt know that) If it was at school i would do my darndest to prove it and if i couldn't, that student would get a piece of my mind and probably never hear the end of it, no joke. If it happened in a work environment i would go to the highest superior i could and complain about it, and if its for work, i would i hope i had proof of it because thats my job, my career, on the line. I will not let anyone take me down. I made it this far in life and acomplished so much in so little time that for someone to ruin it because he/she can't think for themselves. Heck no, not me, no siree!!! Karma, believe in it, because it's a nasty thing and it exsists!

Being an online student

I must say i do love to be an online student. I am a single mom so it works out great for me! I love the fact that i can work on homework, hand it in when i want during the week, and actually have a week to work on it. Finding a good day care in a small town is hard so that is also an advantage. I get to sit home and watch my daughter grow in her toddler years which i wanted to do. I dont have to leave her to go to class and i can sit comforatably in my own home and not have to raise my hand for a bathroom break =) She is also in the potty training stage so it works out great there also. I can stop what i am doing to go and take her to the potty. She loves it because she gets to put Elmo stickers up on her Elmo potty chart. Not many day cares will take the time to potty train her the way she needs to be. My daughter is a hands-on, feel, kinda girl. She needs that one on one with this right now. So i love it! My daughter loves it also, although she doesnt know what mommy is doing sitting on the computer all the time, she gets to see me everyday and i love the feeling of being able to be there for her and watch all the new things she is doing and not have to hear it from someone else, at least until she starts school, but even then she will be coming home telling me about it and that will be exciting. I was a little eerie about joining college, especially online, but i know that in the end it will all be worth it when i can give her everything.