Me as a Student

I like being an online student. It gives me the flexiblity I need to get everything that I want to do done. I do not have to worry about gas because my classes is in my home. I do not have to worry about a babysitter or trying to pick classes that fit into my work schedule. Being an online student makes life easier for a busy parent who wants to get a degree.

I love that can schedule, some what, when I can do my work and read my assignments. It helps alot, for me, that I am in an environment (the classes) that many of my classmates are in the same situation as I am. For example, there are parents, or even grandparents, that are trying to get the degree that they want.

I think when we discuss our everyday life in the dicussion boards, the blogs, and sometimes seminar, I think that it creates a closer community between us students in our classes. I know that doing this have made me good friends in past classes. I believe the more you talk to anyone in any way, in person, on the phone, or online, it can create close communities.

I love being an online student! This past weekend, my cousins came down, from Cleveland, to visit me. One of my cousins brought his fiancee' and their son with them. My brother came up from Cincinnati to visit as well. that is the picture of my cousin's son. He is 10 weeks now. the flexibility of this online school has let me spend tim with my family and help me alot. I use to procrastinate alot. I still do from tim to time but being on online classes has helped me stop procrastinate alot. I do not know how but it did.

My son's pet turtle

Today was an interesting day today. My son has this pet turtle. He had it for about 7 months now. (We take care of it more than he does.) Oh by the way my son is 7 years old. This is a current picture of him. Anyway, we clean the turtle tank out today. We got him some fish to add to his tank. Let me explain that first that we thought giving our son a turtle was better for him to have for a pet than a dog because of our small apartment and that it is less work to do to keep up with the turtle. Anyway, after we clean the tank out and put everything back in it, but the turtle, we added the fish to that tank. Now we have an aquatic turtle that eat fish and other things. Personally, I never saw it eat the fish, the fish always just disappeared. Well that was going to change today. There were 10 fish. There was one really big goldfish that was in the group. I thought that that fish was TOO big for the turtle to eat. As soon as I put the turtle in the tank, it went for the big goldfish. The turtle attacked that goldfish just like a shark attack it's food. It tore it apart! It ate all the pieces too. I never saw anything like that except on TV. My son, of course, thought that was the coolest thing. Well, now we only got 8 fish. I can barely look at the tank now because I really do not want to see that event happen again! You would think that I would be find because I am in the medical field but that was far from surgery or emergency issues!