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Vanessa is a 24-year-old stay-at-home mom, wife, military spouse, and veteran. She started her online education while she was still in the Navy.
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  • Blog Post: Routines and Rhythms: The keys to your success

    I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, two things you need to be successful as an online student, especially one who is also professionally employed, is good scheduling and time management skills. The thing that I use to meet the rigors of academia is routine. That’s right, kind of...
    onWed, Jan 21 2009

  • Blog Post: Considering online college? Here’s a formula to choose the best one for you

    In the forums one of the most frequent questions I see is "which school is right for me" or "can you help me choose a school" or "do you know of a school" etc. The problem with answering those questions is that choosing the right school is impossible for someone to do for...
    onSat, Jun 21 2008

  • Blog Post: So I'm Considering a Doctorate Degree

    First up, I've written about them before and I'm doing it again, but the Harrison Middleton University's College of the Humanities and Sciences has the best looking all around liberal arts doctorate programs I've seen. I love the concept of performing your research based upon readings...
    onFri, Jun 6 2008

  • Blog Post: Get your MBA the quick and easy way

    My title got you didn’t it? You’re reading this blog post thinking “can I really get my MBA quick and easy?” Sure you can. It wasn’t too many weeks ago I interviewed a guy who had a degree from a wholly unaccredited and un-wonderful university (which shall go unnamed) and...
    onFri, Apr 25 2008

  • Blog Post: An odd lifestyle choice I have made to earn my degree online

    “Where do you find the time?” “You must really like working a lot.” “You must be a (book worm or nerd or Einstein or driven or a workaholic or any number of assumptions people like to make about someone they barely know anything about other than they are different). These...
    onSat, Apr 5 2008

  • Blog Post: Is Getting an MBA Online a Mistake?

    I read an interesting interview of an executive recruiter over the value of the MBA. I recommend you read it as well, but in a nutshell, the MBA has real value. It has the most value in investment banking, consulting work and finance but can be a cross industry asset as well. The MBA is being more sought...
    onWed, Mar 19 2008

  • Blog Post: 10 Questions People are too Scared to Ask MBA Students

    I’ve been known for years at my work as “that guy who goes to college online for his MBA ” and often when people meet me for the first time knowing this I can tell that they are just brimming over with questions that they want to ask but for some reason they don’t. Sometimes people...
    onSun, Feb 24 2008

  • Blog Post: 10 Traps, Pitfalls and Shortcomings of Earning a Degree Online Part II (6-10)

    This is part II of a two part series. (Click to view part I .) 6.) Technology . Technology is an inevitable part of being an online student. Using new, unfamiliar software and mastering the art of using it skillfully will become essential. If you are still carrying a pager, use a rotary phone, are afraid...
    onWed, Feb 13 2008

  • Blog Post: 10 Traps, Pitfalls and Shortcomings of Earning a Degree Online Part I (1-5)

    Okay I know it seems strange for a guy who is all about distance education to write about the negative aspects of learning online, but for the sake of fairness sometimes it is necessary to look at the bad side of learning as well as the good. After all it is important to make a well-informed decision...
    onWed, Feb 13 2008

  • Blog Post: It’s almost 4AM do you know where your grad student is?

    It’ll be dawn in a couple of hours and I’ll be asleep like Dracula after a long night by the time that occurs. Unfortunately rather than chasing damsels in distress I’ve been figuring out the time value of money, the net present value, discount rates, payback period, discounted payback...
    onMon, Feb 11 2008

  • Blog Post: The MBA is Smoking Hot: However Don’t Expect Immediate Results

    According to the Star Tribune the MBA has become “the” degree to get for working adults. In the St. Paul-Minneapolis area alone the newspaper estimates that there are 5,000 MBA students working towards their degree from one of a dozen available schools. Students, “…primarily...
    onThu, Jan 24 2008
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