The Three S’s

Hello everyone!

Can you believe it’s already week three?! I forget how these weeks during the term just fly by! This is my fifth year in college (i’m taking things slow) and my first time blogging, I don’t exactly know what i’m doing so this should be fun!

Lets start with my struggles and get that out of the way! Though I am a fifth year, this is my first year online, the past four years I was on campus with an online class here and there, so I am completely trying to re-accommodate my learning strategies to work with all my online courses. I am a very hands on, visual learner. Being an Ag Science major that works great because I have had a lot of classes that had labs or even field trips, but with online learning there are no soil labs or field trips to elk feeding grounds. I feel like it consist of a lot a reading, and that’s something that is hard for me to sit and do (unless its a novel by Jeannette Walls!), I tend to go from reading to quickly scanning the pages and then sometimes even dozing off. I know I can do it, its just going to take a little more motivation and maybe an extra cup of coffee.

Onward with my surprises. It was hard trying to think of something that had surprised me, thinking over the past couple weeks nothing came to mind until I thought about how well I have been able to manage my time with my classes. In the past I have been quite the procrastinator, an assignment was never late but I did have a few close calls, staying late in the library finishing up a paper that was due the next day. But this time I was worried it would be worse with online course, no classes at a certain time to get my butt out the door, no study group meetings between classes and work, for a bit I thought everything would be one big messy wad of school. Though I am writing this blog at midnight, the house is quiet with not distractions, my husband is working late, I have a handful peanut butter m&m’s and the dog is asleep at my feet, this is the perfect time to let my words flow! Not only and I surprised at how well I have been able to manage my time with classes, I am very proud of myself for it, something I thought would actual be a struggle but I am totally rocking it!

Upward with my strengths! For some reason its always easier to think of your struggles rather than your strengths. I think my greatest strength is my determination. Like I said, this is my fifth year in school, i’m so ready to be done after this year! Because of my determination, I think that is why I have been able to manage my time so well and work on overcoming my struggles.I know that in order to get my degree this spring I have to pass all my classes, and to pass my classes I need good grades; I am very determined to get good grades, to pass my classes to finally get that 30 thousand dollar piece of paper in the spring!