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My Penn Foster College Experience

This is Terry's account of how he got started at Penn Foster College, as well as his ongoing studies towards his online Marketing degree. Read about the various pitfalls of balancing homework with family, as well as his two jobs, personal life, and volunteer work.

Tough Assignment

I’m sorry to say I’m STILL working on my Reflective Writing essay.  It is the second-to-last essay I have to write.  My final essay doubles as the final exam for my English Composition course at Penn Foster College.

 

Part of the problem is I have been busy working on some freelancing projects, which takes time away from my writing.  I am actually halfway through the essay, but writing this one is especially difficult.

 

I am supposed to write about something from my childhood…something which taught me a lesson that I can now look back upon as an adult and come to some kind of understanding about it.  I chose to write about my parents’ divorce.

 

My parents have both been remarried for more than 25 years.  In fact, I am nearing nearly 20 years of marriage myself.  However, revisiting the experience of my family being split in two has forced to look at parts of my life that I would just as soon forget.

 

I think that is what will make this a decent essay.  The thoughts and feelings that I experienced are coming out on the printed page.  But, I do have to say this…it has not been a pleasant experience, or a fun assignment. 

 

I hope to wrap this thing up this weekend.  I had actually hoped to be completely done with my whole semester by now, and studying for my semester finals, but once again I have experienced delays.  I’m convinced I would have the same problem even if I were studying with a different school.   This has all been my fault.

 

I have also decided that I am going to stick with Penn Foster College after this semester.  Since I have worked on this first semester for two years, I will have to work twice as hard and finish each of my remaining semesters in less than six months.  I think I can do it.

 

I’m not worried about transfer credit.  Penn Foster College’s courses (most of them, anyway) are reviewed by the American Council on Education, or ACE.  Penn Foster also has an agreement with Mountain State University, which will accept entire associate degrees for students wishing to pursue a bachelor degree.  There are also plenty of other schools which will accept credits from Penn Foster College, so I believe this is the most economical choice for me.

 

Now I just have to finish this course.

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Published Friday, September 07, 2007 8:14 PM by tcord1964

Comments

 

MichelleA said:

Good luck!  I'm sure you'll finish your essay soon and it will be fantastic!  :-)

September 10, 2007 12:16 PM
 

Victoria said:

"I think that is what will make this a decent essay.  The thoughts and feelings that I experienced are coming out on the printed page.  But, I do have to say this…it has not been a pleasant experience, or a fun assignment."

I think I would like to eventually be a writer, but I know that there a lot of internal things that I have let hold me back. Articulating intense emotional experiences is one of them (a big one). It takes serious guts to share that sort of stuff with the outside world.

October 1, 2007 1:33 PM
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About tcord1964

Terry is a veteran writer and reporter who switched careers and currently works in marketing/public relations. He is working toward a BA in Communication from Andrew Jackson University while also doing coursework with Penn Foster College.

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Terry is a veteran writer and reporter who switched careers and currently works in marketing/public relations. He is working toward a BA in Communication from Andrew Jackson University while also doing coursework with Penn Foster College.

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