Tubby & Peanut's Mom
09-05-2003, 05:39 PM
Hi everyone :)
As you can tell by my scattered posts, I've been lurking, just not posting much and yes, that is because school has started in a big way. We didn't get back from the weekend until Tuesday night, so I wasn't able to log in to my classes until Wednesday morning - and I also had a ton of work-work to do because of it being the end of the fiscal year and having to close everything out before starting the new year and.....I won't bore you with the details.
Anyway, I finally get logged in, and there is soooo much information thrown at us that I didn't even know where to begin! With one class there were two books supplied. Over the weekend I thought I'd get a jump on things and I started reading one of them. They looked the same to me, so I blindly grabbed and started reading. Well, undoubtedly the one I started reading is the one that is not being used. At first :mad: , now just <sigh>.
Anyway, after getting a lot of work-work done on Wednesday, I basically took all day Thursday to try and figure this all out. Figured some of it out during the day, worked on more at night. By the time I went to bed I was totally exhausted and whipped. I was so frustrated with the whole thing I was near to tears and nearly broke down when Terry asked me what was wrong. I told him and I also told him I was thinking about dropping one of the classes because there is no way I would have enough time to give each class 100% - and that's the only way I would be able to live with myself. I couldn't do one just half-*ss just to do it, so this morning I filled out the paperwork to withdraw from one class. I've just started and I already feel like such a failure. :(
But I know it'll be for the best in the long run. There is no way I could have even a semblence of normal life had I stuck with the two classes. The one class is still going to be a lot of work, but that I can manage. I really feel the guy I talked to in the beginning misled me about how much time would be needed. He said "Oh, you only need to log in 3 times a week." Well, it's three times a week per "threaded discussion" and there are 5 threaded discussions for one class!
I'm sticking with the "Programming Basics" class, and now that I'm figuring it all out, it's kind of fun, so hopefully things will start looking up as the class goes on and I get more comfortable with how the whole online thing works and with what is expected of us.
Anway, just wanted to let you know how it's all going....basically because I need the support you guys provide. :)
So far not so good, but things are looking up. :)
As you can tell by my scattered posts, I've been lurking, just not posting much and yes, that is because school has started in a big way. We didn't get back from the weekend until Tuesday night, so I wasn't able to log in to my classes until Wednesday morning - and I also had a ton of work-work to do because of it being the end of the fiscal year and having to close everything out before starting the new year and.....I won't bore you with the details.
Anyway, I finally get logged in, and there is soooo much information thrown at us that I didn't even know where to begin! With one class there were two books supplied. Over the weekend I thought I'd get a jump on things and I started reading one of them. They looked the same to me, so I blindly grabbed and started reading. Well, undoubtedly the one I started reading is the one that is not being used. At first :mad: , now just <sigh>.
Anyway, after getting a lot of work-work done on Wednesday, I basically took all day Thursday to try and figure this all out. Figured some of it out during the day, worked on more at night. By the time I went to bed I was totally exhausted and whipped. I was so frustrated with the whole thing I was near to tears and nearly broke down when Terry asked me what was wrong. I told him and I also told him I was thinking about dropping one of the classes because there is no way I would have enough time to give each class 100% - and that's the only way I would be able to live with myself. I couldn't do one just half-*ss just to do it, so this morning I filled out the paperwork to withdraw from one class. I've just started and I already feel like such a failure. :(
But I know it'll be for the best in the long run. There is no way I could have even a semblence of normal life had I stuck with the two classes. The one class is still going to be a lot of work, but that I can manage. I really feel the guy I talked to in the beginning misled me about how much time would be needed. He said "Oh, you only need to log in 3 times a week." Well, it's three times a week per "threaded discussion" and there are 5 threaded discussions for one class!
I'm sticking with the "Programming Basics" class, and now that I'm figuring it all out, it's kind of fun, so hopefully things will start looking up as the class goes on and I get more comfortable with how the whole online thing works and with what is expected of us.
Anway, just wanted to let you know how it's all going....basically because I need the support you guys provide. :)
So far not so good, but things are looking up. :)