I’ve been out of touch with the blog lately, but not my
studies. I am currently on a business
trip to Atlanta,
halfway across the country from where I live.
I’ve been putting in some long days talking to potential clients and
representing my company, but I have still found time to work on my English
Composition course.
This is one of the main benefits of distance learning. No matter where I am, my studies can go with
me. I’ve got my laptop computer with me,
so I can work on my essay and polish it a bit before emailing it to my
instructor for grading. Mind you, I
haven’t found a lot of time for studying these past few days, but the extra
time I do have to myself can be spent working on my coursework.
I hope to have all of my work in English Composition by the
end of next week. My original plan was
to be done by the end of June, but a case of writer’s block and extra long
hours at work preparing for my current road trip derailed that plan. I should still be able to take my semester
finals and be completely finished by sometime in August.
In the meantime, I’m still studying for two different CLEP
exams: Social Science and History and
Natural Science, worth 12 credit hours.
I plan to take both exams in one sitting. I study for the exams during my lunch hours
and during my spare time on evenings and weekends. I’m also able to do that no matter where I
am, without the constraints of class schedules and deadlines.
This also happens to be one of the benefits of self-paced
programs. If you are able to manage your
time well and can stay on task, self-paced programs are definitely the way to
go. If you procrastinate and experience
frequent interruptions in your daily routine, something more structured would
be for you. A search of the database
here at eLearners.com will help you find both self-paced and structured
programs available at a distance.
As I write this, I’m sitting in my hotel room, at the end
of along work day, but I’ll be working
on my essay tonight. Ah, the joys of
distance learning!