Bye Bye Bye

Wow, sixteen weeks later and i thought the day would never come. I am so relieved I got through this course and that my classmates did as well. When I was first introduced to the course and I saw all the work I did not know how far along I would last. i thought the recommended hours per week for this course was outrageous but I managed to spread the work out through the week and the 6 hours did not seem so bad then. The whole online environment intrigued me but did have me worried. I was able to overcome my fear and get through the course perfectly fine. I really enjoyed the fact that we had a whole day until 12am to turn assignments in and believe me I took full advantage of that (wink), it is something we do not get in face to face course. My biggest worry was the group project which turned out to be much less scarier. I was so worried how we (my group) could do a group project online but with Ms.Gross’s great organization skills everything worked out well. The blogs were a lot of fun because it did not feel much like an assignment, it felt like free writing to me most of the time and I absolutely love that. It was almost like another type of myspace or facebook, being able to read what people are feeling and their perspectives, I am a nosey person so I liked to read everyone’s post. I wanted to comment on everyone’s blogs but I thought I would be doing too much; fortunately my blogs were just as interesting because the feedback from my peers were always great.
It was very cool getting to bond with my classmates online and never seeing each other face to face. I can tell you that I have painted images in my head of all of my classmates and it would be so cool to see if any of them actually match what I thought they might look like. I appreciate all the help from my peers from the peer draft reviews to the blog comments and the homework help. It was great working together and I thank you all for your help, including Ms. Gross. Everything was done quickly ; responses and help were never delayed and always an email or post away. I hope to eventually run into a class mate from this course and meet them face to face, maybe it will be in the classroom again or maybe in a future job since we are all well on our way. Congratulations to all of us who stuck with this course, I know from Ms.Gross comments we have done a G-R-E-A-T job. To those of you who graduate on Friday night I’ll be there with you experiencing the memory and knowing we are the first graduates of the new stadium; to those who do not keep perusing it will be well worth it in the end.