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My Experience at University of Phoenix

I had been wanting to get my college degree for some time now, but there always seemed to be something more important or demanding of my time and energy. 22 months ago, I finally embarked on the path to a lifelong dream: A college degree. Now, at 48 years of age, I completed my Associate program and plunged right into my bachelor program. My goal is a bachelor's degree by the time I reach my 50th birthday. So far, I’m on track.

More on Sunday Deadlines

Well, obviously we missed charter deadline. Miss lazy-pants did not come back into the team forum to review the redlines on her work. "I ran it through the 'checker' and it's fine" she says. Fine my behind. What checker did she use? Then, when I mentioned that 26% of her work was cited material, which is frowned upon and takes away from the rest of the team's hard work, she said it was fine because she cited it.

Uh..yeah...she cited it alright. She put it in quotes, improperly cited it, wrote the source wrong for the references page and, when I looked up her quote it became clear that she did not even directly quote what she put inside quotation marks. But oh...it is fine...because she cited it.

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For all of the time I have spent going back over my team mates work and fixing their mistakes (because they refuse to), I maybe could be learning the actual content of the class. I spend so much time working on spelling, punctuation, grammar, and APA formatting that it is almost not fair to ask me to do any of the research or to prepare anything remotely on topic. (Of course I do but it is not a fair distribution of work.)

We got the paper posted by deadline...syllabus deadline, not charter deadline. Guess who isn't going to get a nice word about her written from me on the learning team evaluation for the week...

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About 66bearess

I had been wanting to get my college degree for some time now, but there always seemed to be something more important or demanding of my time and energy. Whether it was the chaos of all the children living with us at the same time, or the demand of extracurricular school activities for them, or the stress of making ends meet in an economy slump, the dream of higher education always seemed to remain on the back burner. Now, at 49 years of age, I am three-quarters of the way toward my goal having earned my associate degree in July of 2008. I am pushing on for my bachelor degree because I am determined to reach my goal: A bachelor degree by the time I reach my 50th birthday. Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I am a little behind schedule so I must aggressively push forward these next 6 months and double up when I can in order to graduate with the class of 2010.
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