These online classes just are not working for me. Why on Earth am I
paying $70 per class to use an e textbook that doesn't even make sense
to use? I can't highlight it, I can't take notes, I can't flip back and
forth between pages without scrolling my eyes all out of focus and by
the time finding what I am looking for, forgetting what I was seeking in
the first place.
This is my first bout of online classes. The
first two weren't so bad... but this is my first program course,
principles of marketing... which shouldn't be a problem; I had a couple
years of marketing in high school. Which.... was .... ten... years....
ago.
No. The problem I am having is with a bazillion folders having to be
opened to locate one thing, and fifty more having to be opened and links
to go through to find the other thing that goes with it (and with my
lack of a short term memory, it can be rather frustrating) and that
everything comes as a download instead of being directly on the site...
why oh why does something so easy have to be so difficult? And it's
something that doesn't even have to be difficult. They just like to make
it that way it seems. Of course, there's reasons for why the school is
laid out that way. I don't know them, but I am sure there is.
So what's the difference between the reason and an excuse? Hmmm.... it's a fine line. Imagine this common scenario.
Student walks in late to class. Teacher asks "what's your excuse?" Student says they overslept. That is the true and honest reason. Result: detention for being late.
I believe there is a difference between an excuse and a reason. I just think excuse is used improperly way too much.
Say
someone just got fired from their job. Instead of picking up and
finding something new, they stay up until the wee hours of the morning,
sleep until 2 or 3 pm, and never leave the house all day. What's their
reason for not finding something new? There is no valid reason. What's
their reason? Making excuses. Laziness.
So why am I awake typing this at 230 a.m.? I'm way tired but don't feel
like sleeping. I know I should, because at the moment I am like a kid
waiting for Santa. When the parents tell the children "the sooner you go
to sleep, the sooner Christmas morning will be here...."
Yes,
the sooner I go to sleep, the sooner I will get to go home. This crazy
weekend visiting La Crosse has had its ups and downs. Unfortunately,
more downs than ups. I can just never make up my mind. When I am there, I
want to be here; and when I am here, I want to be there.
