I am so excited to finally be able to communicate with you all! My name is Victoria, and I am recent graduate of Drexel University's department of Education's online program. I've had the greatest time at Drexel and hope to share with you all my wonderful experiences. I will be receiving my diploma on Saturday, June 14, so wish me luck. It has been almost 20 years to the day of receiving my high school diploma…so this is a long time coming for me.
I first started my post-secondary experience at Temple University in 1988 and in 1989 Temple University went on strike. I went out to use one of my talents that I had grown up with. I had begun learning sign language at the age of 14 and in 1989 I accepted a position with the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf as an assistant. I love American Sign Language and to this day I am still a freelance interpreter. Since interpreting has afforded me a great living I had put the idea of finishing my bachelor's degree in the back of mind.
I did try to restart my degree several times and if you look at my Temple transcript you will see the birth of three of my children. 
So after the fifth child I really felt that a degree was out of my reach. My husband had finally encouraged me finish since I was in my junior year at Temple, but the thought of driving and parking on campus was horrid.
So I looked into two programs, one that was an accelerated degree program and the other was Drexel's new online program. I remember the first night logging into an online orientation. That night it just so happened that my youngest child was deathly ill. As he sat in my lap sleeping I enjoyed and interacted the entire night with my soon to be Drexel classmates, while my sleeping baby lay in my lap. At that very moment I knew Drexel was the program for me!
I can't say that it has been easy. Drexel is a challenging program that requires a lot of reading and A LOT of writing! But for those of you who thought that a degree was just no longer feasible. Think about the lady with five children who finally made it, and know that you can do it too!