AAAAaahhhhh!!!

It seems we can all breathe a sigh of relief now since the semester is coming to a close and papers are turned in.  I love that feeling.  I am a check off the list kind of person and once the semester is done I know all my boxes have been checked!  To anyone writing a research paper for the first time I would tell them it takes time and they need to make sure they plan ahead and by doing a little at a time most of your paper will just come together over time.  Leaving research papers until the last minute leaves little or no time to correct mistakes.  I think I have become better with APA, I pretty much don't even have to look at the book or cheatsheets now.  I am continuing to put together better transitions throughout my paper, but that is something I can always improve upon.  It is definitely true with papers the more you do the better you become, practice makes perfect (or at least better).  I hope everyone has a wonderful next semester, Good luck

Almost Done

Well it looks as though we are almost done with class and our papers.  I am currently doing my final edits and revisions on my paper and can't wait to go to the dropbox, submit it, and then be done.  It is always so nice to see the little box that pops up telling you your assignment has now been submitted, yeah!  This class has been a great refresher into the writing techniques to use and things that are important to include in papers. As always the more information we can get on APA formatting the better.  I have senioritis quite bad so right now I am just so ready to have all my classes complete and have that costly piece of paper in hand.  Good luck on your papers everyone.

Whew, almost there!

I hope everyone is doing well in class.  I do wish there would have been a few more peer review posts with lots of ideas on changes to spice up my paper, but I am sure I will figure something out.  Only 2 weeks left, Yeah.  This semester was actually pretty good--but I am definitely not looking forward to next term.  What about you guys?  I don't think I will continue my posts because not too many people read them--and I understand because we all have soooo much to do anyway and I am not a "live life out loud and let everyone know what I am thinking and feeling" type of person anyway.  Have a great week everyone, see ya in discussion.

Peer Reviews

I enjoy doing peer reviews and having my paper reviewed also.  It is really helpful to understand how other people feel and understand what you have written because your own personal ideas come out a lot different than you think sometimes.  My entire paper has "ah ha" moments in it.  The staggering statistics in America today concerning childhood obesity would blow anyones mind.  It is sad to see where our country is headed.  Can't wait to read everyones papers.  Hope you guys are having a good week.  Unit 7, close to done!

What is going on in life...

Let's see.  I am trying to decide if I should quit my job and get a new one.  I am really burnt out.  I have been a floral designer for 6 years now and am ready to try something new and start fresh.  With the economy it is a bit tough though.  No one seems to be hiring and since I don't have my degree yet but I am close that still doesn't seem to count for squat.  I am just a little bit bummed all the way around.  Can't wait until I am done with school. 

How does school influence my life?

Wow I think the question is better stated as how does school NOT influence my life right now!  I am currently taking 3 classes: this one, Nutritional Assessment, and Contemporary Nutrition.  So pretty much being married, working 40 + hours a week, and school consume me.  I am a perfectionist also so I try to do the best I can in school and get really irritated when I don't get A's.  But I am close to my degree only 9 more classes I think so I am really looking forward to being done.  I have been in school for way to long.  I have switched degrees 4 times, yes 4 times.  I wish I would have known what I wanted to do a long time ago because I would have saved lots of time and money.  On another note school influences my life in other ways.  Since I am surrounded by health, nutrition, and wellness information on a daily basis it helps me stay in touch with how to take care of myself, my family, and my friends.  There is always new technologies or information appearing about health so it keeps it fresh. 

Plagarism

This may be a short blog because I don't know if I can gather a lot to say on the matter.  I do find it offensive that people would try to steal others ideas but I think most people just gather information and put it into papers to show they have researched and sometimes forget to cite.  I think more often than not it is an accident and not an intentional occurance.  It is important that we do cite our sources so others can find them also.  If I find something in someone else's paper really interesting and would like to read more about it I can simply take the information from their Reference page and find it on my own.  It does seem like everyone else's ideas and studies have creeped into papers so that it isn't even as if we have wrote them, our ideas seem like a sidebar to the ridiculous amount of parenthesis for citations. 

Being an online student...

Hi everyone...hope you are all doing well this weekend.  Being an online student seems to be a love-hate relationship!  I love that I have the opportunity to do things when I have the availability, everything is usually in writing where you can see it and go over it many times in case you missed something, and everyone gets the chance to participate (or is required).  It seems like the things we are taught online and how it is structured is much more adult-like and profession friendly.  I have attended a state university, a small private college and here I am now at Kaplan so I feel like I have a good all-around idea of what college is like and what different colleges can offer.  It seems like there is a lot of work expected of you online: a ton of reading, lots of participation, and many papers.  Overall I like how the class is structured.  When I was deciding on an online college I picked Kaplan instead of University of Phoenix because they are required to do group work every class every week and that just really isn't for me.  So here I am, worked hard at Kaplan, but enjoying how wonderful the teachers and classmates are. 

Ahhh Sunday

Hello everyone-
I sure hate it when the weekends are coming to a close.  It means projects and discussion boards are soon due and the work week begins again.  I love sleeping in late and just hanging out around the house on Sundays, especially in a few weeks when regular season NFL football begins.  Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday as well!

Here we go...

Well today is the middle of my vacation (although I am still having to do homework, ugh).  My husband and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Sandusky, Ohio to Cedar Point amusement park.  We are roller coaster junkies so it was an excellent time.  Currently I am just catching up on some homework I missed while I was away and watching the latest news on the NFL.  I am so tired of the Brett Favre saga again this year I could scream.  Hope everyone is having a fabulous day! =)