Unit 10

Woohoo! We're done. I feel like I learned a lot more in this class than I expected to. I am more comfortable writing than I was before and feel that I got some great advice to become a better writer. I really appreciated all the comments I received about how to make my paper better. I hope my future classes are as beneficial and fun as this one has been. I am sooo looking forward to our break. I have so much house and yard work to get done and this is a great oppurtunity to work on it. I was pretty bummed today after taking my exam for my other class. I needed 154 points to keep an A in the class and I got 152. Talk about major disappointment. Now I have 89.9% :( After that, I am especially glad to be done. Oh well, I guess I learned that I need to study more next time.

Unit 9

I have to admit that I am actually kind of sad that this term is coming to an end. At the same time, I am excited because I am one step closer to finishing. I really enjoyed my classes this term and was surprised at how much I liked this class. Usually, I hate English classes. When I was at Purdue, I dropped a couple of them. I know that wasn't the smartest choice but they were always SOOOOO boring and I just felt I was wasting my time. I know writing is an important skill to have and this class actually made it bearable. I feel much more confident in my abilities and don't mind the APA citations nearly as much as before. I wish I could have more professors like Julie. I am not trying to be a brown noser but just stating the truth. I think it is important for a person to enjoy their job as she seems to. I loved having someone that was encouraging and participated so much in the discussion. The contributions she made to my paper were great. It was a completely different experience than my comp professor last term. I would email her at the beginning of the week and not hear back til the end of the week. She was always complaining about being so busy and having too many papers to grade and really didn't seem to care about teaching at all. Seminars were terribly boring. I was really dreading this course and it turned out to be great. Thank you all for that. I hope to see some of you in my future classes.

Unit 8

Wow. What a week I have had. Or more accurately, what a year it's been. Things have been crazy lately and I feel like I have been struggling to keep up. I have been working a lot this term and I can really tell the difference when it comes to finishing my school work. I have an 'A' in both my classes right now, and hopefully it will stay that way over the next few weeks. I am a little worried about keeping my grade in my nutritional planning class because we have a final exam that might be difficult. I need to figure out a better schedule for completing my work next term because right now I struggle every week to get everything finished and I can never seem to get my DB posts in by Saturday. I work in the afternoons and am home with my daughter during the day. I usually don't get home from work until 10 and am too tired to do schoolwork. I also work wed-sunday so monday and tuesday are my main days to get things done. I will not be keeping this blog after class is over because I am more of a private journal type of person. Not really one to air all my laundry on the net although it has been a good place for me to vent about my crazy life.

UNIT 7

Peer reviews...hmmm. Well I don't have a problem having my work reviewed by my peers, actually I welcome any advice I can get because lord knows I can use it. Reviewing my peers papers, however, not my favorite way to spend my time. I try to provide as much useful praise and criticism as I can, but I just feel like I am not the best person for the job. Who am I to tell them what to do? Oh well, I will just do my best and that's all I can do I guess:)

I just finished my rough draft! Now you might not find that as exciting as I do but I am so excited because until seminar last night I did not realize it was due today. I don't know where my head was this week but for some reason I just thought we had to turn in an outline. So I stayed up late last night and went at it again this morning and I finally finished. I still have a ways to go until I am happy with it but I think I got a pretty good start for my "rough" draft. It wasn't too hard to write because I had a decent start with prewriting and research. Plus the topic of sex ed really interests me. I just can't understand why we're still teaching abstinence-only programs in our school when it has been proven that they don't work. Let's give our kids an education. You wouldn't give someone a loaded gun but not teach them how to use it safely. Same concept here. Luckily, sex ed is starting to undergo some changes under the Obama administration. Well I think that's all for now because my child is screaming in my ear because I won't let her "type"

So here we are again..It's tuesday night and I am frantically trying to finish all my schoolwork. This week was especially crazy for me but at least we are halfway through the term. WOOHOO! I keep trying to get everything done so I am not stuck finishing up on tuesday but it just hasn't worked out for me. Especially this week. My daughter was sick with roseola and an ear infection which made doing anything besides holding her nearly impossible. We also started remodeling our kitchen so we have no oven or stove top and our fridge has been moved to our dining room. We took most of the cabinets out so we have boxes of food in our living room. Fun stuff. It's going to be great once its finished but is a major pain at the moment. This week I am especially grateful for online classes because I don't know if I would've made it to campus classes. I just keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end because I am working towards a career in a field that I love.

Unit 4

Wow, we are almost halfway through this term. Woohoo! I can't believe how fast time is going-I really love these 10 week terms. They are much better than a whole semester. So, it looks like I'm supposed to be talking about citations and such. Boo! No, really they're not that bad I guess. I understand why we are supposed to use them. People really should get the credit for their hard work. I would be pretty unhappy if someone stole my work and passed it off as their own. I just don't like the formality of it all. I also feel that it is overly stressed in the academic world. I feel like we spend weeks talking about it in every single class. I get it already and I WILL cite my sources! Let's just quit talking about it puhlease.