Whew. Information overload.
The past few days in these new classes have been something else. One teacher has special templates that need to be used for some of the assignments (arrgh, that's annoying. Color. Squigglies. Hard-to-read fonts. Why do people do that?!), the other has strange (but very nifty) rubriks that are used for grading, that I could totally get used to seeing from the other teachers (but that won’t happen), and doesn’t like new threads being started (though, she is using the school’s threading system, which is not all that great; they tried to reinvent the wheel to make things easier, and in reality, make things considerably harder for everyone).
All in all, though, most of it is not bad, just different. The only real thing that stinks about new classes is that the first week or two is getting used to the way that teacher in particular works, and then adapting to it. This is a good thing for anybody to be able to do, but it is also slightly annoying when the length of the class, time-wise, is just long enough for you to get comfortable before the whole program changes up again. Question for those of you that still read me and attend brick-and-mortar institutions: is it that way there, too? That would be good to know, because I am researching taking the final two years (maybe three, actually, probably three, since many of my credits for my Associate’s degree will not likely transfer over) of my college at some place like Georgia Tech, where I can get tuition taken care of mostly by the state since I have a high GPA-even though it isn’t a 4.0 (which I am still really bummed about... I kept that 4.0 for over a year!).
Anyway, that’s all for now… back to homework. My math homework took me a good part of the day with the distractions and all, and actually even prevented me from calling someone back which I just remembered. If you’re reading this (do you read this?) I will call you tomorrow.
All in all, though, most of it is not bad, just different. The only real thing that stinks about new classes is that the first week or two is getting used to the way that teacher in particular works, and then adapting to it. This is a good thing for anybody to be able to do, but it is also slightly annoying when the length of the class, time-wise, is just long enough for you to get comfortable before the whole program changes up again. Question for those of you that still read me and attend brick-and-mortar institutions: is it that way there, too? That would be good to know, because I am researching taking the final two years (maybe three, actually, probably three, since many of my credits for my Associate’s degree will not likely transfer over) of my college at some place like Georgia Tech, where I can get tuition taken care of mostly by the state since I have a high GPA-even though it isn’t a 4.0 (which I am still really bummed about... I kept that 4.0 for over a year!).
Anyway, that’s all for now… back to homework. My math homework took me a good part of the day with the distractions and all, and actually even prevented me from calling someone back which I just remembered. If you’re reading this (do you read this?) I will call you tomorrow.