UNIT 10

Unit 10, Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company, :) I must say it has been a journy. The last several weeks have flown by but I can say that I am leaving with so much more knowledge of writing and a little bit more skill about the subject. This class was very helpfull to me. Even though I couldnt figure out the reason why we had to Blog once a week was tough, after awhile it made sense, and I have actually grown to like blogging. It is a great way to express oneself. Another aspect of the class I liked was the peer review. I have never been big on accepting constructive critisicm, however, it is very helpful when it comes to needing feed back on papers. I had to understand that it was only going to help my paper that much more and it did. I can truly say that I will pay more attention to detail in my writing and make sure I use all the tools that I learned. Thank you Professor and class..

UNIT 9 "TIME FLIES"

It is the end of the semester and I cant believe it. I am just sitting here in amazement at how fast time just flew by. I think the only thing that I regret is not being in seminar enough. I learned enough about the subject and writing in Option 2 and through the discussion posts, however, attending seminar on the nights that I could I felt that I was grasping so much more. The interaction with the Professor and the students made it seem like we were in a real class room, and although I do not mind online classes because of the flexibility that I need. I would pick in class over on line any day. Sometime certain questions that you dont think of at the time end up getting asked by another student and you find your self so greatful that they did because you have that "Oh yea I was going to ask that, or I needed to know that as well" moment. I dont know to each is own I guess. :)
I find right now as we are at the end a sense of nervousness and relief. Writing has never been my strong subject in school and I must say I was so nervous when I first started this class because I just knew we were going to do so much writing, but it turned out that it wasnt all about writing. It was everything that has to do with writing and what goes into a great paper. I can now say I am a little smarter in that aspect. The KU handbook for writers is so handy, I love it!! I am relieved only because I made it through. I hate to fail as anyone does, so right now I am have a sense of relief because of that. I am still nervous because even though we are at the end we still have our FINAL project to turn in, I hope its GOOD!!

UNIT 8

As I seem to mention every week in all of my Blogs, I think that the only issue that I may have come across was just time. I never seem to have enough time once I leave an go out to sea. The Navy encourages off duty education whether it be in class or online and I love that. I love online classes because they are so flexible, however, it isnt so easy to access your classes while out to sea, and that makes it tough. We have computers and we have internet but if its not super slow then its down. I cant ever win and as for seminar I can forget it cause there is something with the computers on board a ship that just do not allow me to access the live seminar. That seems to be my only issue. Other than that the course is challenging only because I am not a writer and even though I like to write its usually only freestyle. I dont know how to write a poem, even though I wish I was creative enough and I cant seem to write papers properly but this class is teaching me and I appreciate that. That is why we go to school, to learn knew things. :)
As for the comments that are left, I cant really complain because I do not receive very many. I can always count on Professor to at least leave one comment :).
You know even though it seems like I always wrote about work and complained about how I dont have enough time to do this or that, the Blog was an outlet for me. Kind of like a journal if you will. It was noce to vent when I needed to or just get stuff off my chest. So will I keep it after class? Its possible, with it not being a requirement I may not get to it every week but I think I will keep it up some how. :)

UNIT 7

WoW!! it feels like it has been so long since the last time I was able to log in and post a blog. I just returned from a 3 week underway period on my ship and boy was it dreadful. :( I know it must seem like this is all I talk about but at this instance in my life thats all there is, sea duty has literally consumed my life. The constant in an out makes it hard to keep up due to the horrible internet connectivity. For some reason the ships internet or computers does not allow me to log in to seminar or see this website here that we use to blog. Last week I tried for like two hours to post my blog. I tried the computer and then I tried on my phone, it so didnt work and I was so very frustrated. I try to do the best that I can but work is getting to that point where its really stressful. I feel like its just never ending, the moment i think I am almost complete with everything in my inbox, here comes another stack of stuff. UUggghhhhh!!! I just want to pull my hair out. I havent even been on this boat 4 months and I feel like I could retire today if I could. The bad part is its just me, I cant imagine the people who have families. The absence of family and being away so much makes it so much tougher I would imagine. The good thing about it is that time is flying by and I cant wait until my two years are over.

Unit 6

UNIT 5 "A Mind is a terrible thing to waste"

I normally choose to freewrite however, I think that I can speak on two of the topics that were given in the Blog section.
If there was one thing about your academic challenges, what would it be? What I find to be the most challenging academically is not being able to have that degree right here right now. It takes so much just to receive it, alot of work alot of discipline and if your like me, meaning that you didnt go to school right after high school it even harder. Now you find yourself having to work a full time job and trying to manage school. It becomes so exhausting, but I never find myself giving up because I am determined. I want to prove to myself that I can do it, that I will have a Bachelor degree. Unfortunantley it may not be in Nursing but it will be in Health Care Administration. It's the closest I could get being on active duty. There is no way I could have dont Nursing being on active duty and I wasnt ready to let the Navy go to go to school. So I will finish out my time until retirement and I will have my degree before then. Now I could have went for a Commissioning Program and let the Navy pay for it but they want you to pay back 10 more years and I just couldnt see doing that.
How is school influencing your life at or up to this point? I believe that ever since I saw my dad graduate from school when I was a little girl, I knew then that I wanted to be in his shoes. Since then I have managed to graduated from high school. I then entered the Navy but my education didnt stop there. After about a year I started attending College to to knock out my prerequsites. I then had enough credit where I was able to receive my Associates in Liberal Science. After that it was like I was hungry for more, that wasnt enough. So then I started taking classes here an there to get me prepared for the Nursing field i.e. Anatomy & Physiology I and II and Medical Terminology, Chemistry. Then I came to a fork in the road an I needed to make a descion. I had hit my 10 year mark in the Navy, and they say that if you make it to 10 that you might as well stay. Well I started making all preparations to get out because I didnt want to do it anymore. So I then went to Medical Assisting school and became certified 12 months later, just to have something to fall back on, however then something changed and I decided to stay Navy and finish out my time to retirement, why not right? This is when I came to the conclusion that I could not do Nursing on active duty but I didnt want to give up, and that leads me to where I am today. I keep pushing because I want it. I keep pushing because the Navy is paying for it, and they want to drain everything out of me so why not take what I can from them. So with that being said school has been a major part of me. I feel incomplete if I am not taking a class, dont get me wrong a break from school is great but I always feel like I am missing out on something if I am not constantly learning and being taught new things. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"

UNIT 4 ANOTHER DAY

Today was just another day on board the USS IWO JIMA. I find that my life is so routine. I wake up, go to work, come home, eat dinner and then either go to sleep because I have to wake up and do it all again the next day or I have to come to class and then go to sleep and wake up the next day to do it all over again, and boy does 4:45am come way to fast. I have 8 years until retirement and I am already counting down the days. Horrible I know, but this new command is quite exhausting and very demanding. I feel like I age a little everyday. Last night someones purse was stolen out of our office. We all have keys to the office so it we knew it had to be internal, but no one fessed up. Some one stealing from you is a horrible feeling but having someone steal from you that you thought you could trust is the worst. This lady who's purse was stolen would give you the shirt off her back and it I just couldnt believe it. We had morning quarters and our Chief put out that if he finds out who did it he will make sure that the individual gets processed out. I think that scared the person because later on in the afternoon who ever it was managed to return the purse with everything still in it. I was just amazed, but now we know that we can't leave any personal items in the office. Seems you cant trust anyone. Well let me go time to get ready for another day.. Good night!

Unit 3 Blog

Hello Class and Professor,

I chose Option 2 "Discuss how you feel about being an online student. Do you like the anonymity, flexibility, and self-directed style of the courses? Do you have ideas on ways to create a closer class community? "
I have been an online student for quite some time now. It's been about 4 or 5 years since the very first time I took an online class. To tell you the truth I enjoy online classes. Being in the military depending on where you are Sea duty or Shore duty, you sometimes find that you dont have the time or the schedule to attend a class at a school. Although I enjoyed in class classes as well, online ended up being the way to go for me. The flexibility is a major thing as well, as I said before online classes are great when your schedule just doesnt permit. There isnt that much of a difference between online and in class classes. With the seminar you still have the oppertunity to interact with the class and the Professor, and if you ever have any questions or issues the Professor makes the time to answer them. There is even an option for tutoring if need be. At first I had some questions when I first started this class because some of it was new to me, but now that I think i have the hang of it, its pretty much self explanitory and direct. It's all just right there for you.
As for a closer class community, I dont really have any ideas. I feel that the class has a close nit community. We talk in discussion throughout the week and we are all in class during seminar. Even though we cant see each other I feel like we all interact together and we all know one another. It's great!