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!