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. After receiving an honorable discharge, getting married, and having two beautiful girls in two years, she is still going strong with her education at Ashford University. She is currently doubling up on classes with hopes to attend graduation December 2009 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration.
I finally received my grade on my final report for
Managerial Finance. I made an 86% on
it. You wouldn’t believe what I got “gigged”
on. I used conversational English as I
frequently do, even here I suppose and I kept using the phrase “Let’s take the
example of…” or some such. Well for
every time I said “Let’s” I had points deducted. Did I miss the concepts of the course? No.
Did I screw up the numbers? Nope. Did I misapply the philosophies or learning
objectives in Managerial Finance?
No. Instead I apparently made the
7th grade mistake of writing in a conversational tone instead of in
a strictly dry academic tone. Oddly enough
I have received high marks in the past specifically because my papers were “engaging”
or an “easy read” or even “flowing”. But
this time? Oh no. Apparently unless you could blow dust off the
pages because it was so dry, you get gigged.
Okay I’m not complaining here, but the instructor also seemed at times to be a
little reluctant on the feedback.
However after pretty much insisting on it after failing in my discussion
posts one week I would routinely get feedback. Also instead of the usual “welcome to my
class, I hope you enjoy it” type of thing at the beginning we received a list
more to the tone of “you will be deducted 10 points for every day late” or “you
will be expected to…” type of thing.
Yeah, yeah I know. Big cry baby
whining about the mean teacher in grad school because he didn’t ask me how my
day was or whatever. Still, a good class
with highly relevant material. This
professor was just certainly a lot less personable than I have previously
experienced to date. Maybe less
enthusiastic would be a better way of putting it. Lastly this dude graded papers tough. Perhaps it was because he had exacting
standards, maybe he didn’t like the cut of my jib (whatever a “jib” is) I don’t
know. I do know that I scored higher on
the final than the class average which tells me that this guy was just a tough
nut all around.
I’m glad for the experience, I’m even more glad it’s over. People I’m here to tell you that the last 24
weeks have been BRUTAL with the bulk of the brutality in these last 6 weeks.
That being said my GPA is still intact as I made a 91% for the course. I’m still sailing at a 4.0 GPA, which is
great news however I’m so exhausted that I really struggled my first week in
Operations Management. However
everything else should be down hill and I’m hoping to pick up momentum.
Anonymous comments are disabled
About Cajun
Cajun is 31-years-old and currently employed as a Project Analyst for an Information Technology department at a major financial firm. He has recently changed careers after spending 7 years in Federal Law enforcement of which he spent 5 years as a supervisor. His management experience combined with the MBA he finished in October, 2008 allowed for a career change even in the face of these uncertain economic times.
Cajun was introduced to the concept of distance education while working full-time as a law enforcement officer with a demanding and unpredictable schedule, obtaining an Associate of Science degree in Criminal Justice from
Ashworth College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Southwestern College of Winfield, KS graduating Magna Cum Laude and a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership from
Ashford University. To further his new career Cajun will be working towards a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems with an emphasis in Project Management from
Bellevue University.