Hello and welcome back to The Scribbler! I am Kirsten Lynch, Moraine Park Technical College’s student blogger.
How are you? I finished my first week of summer school online classes and I seem to be progressing and on top of my work. I struggled quite a bit last week and then I remembered two things.
1) Most things are difficult the first time doing them.
2) MPTC has great student services to help me one-on-one with homework and reiteration.
This week will be much better.
I was thinking about school yesterday when my cousin was telling me about Iraq. Her husband and other’s she knows were stationed there. For the people that live there to vote, they have to sneak in and the military has to guard the post or the Taliban would come and kill them. TO VOTE!
I was thinking how blessed we all are here when it comes to our freedoms. I vote, and I work, and I go to college, and I am a free person to make my own choices. It almost seems to be a shame to not take advantage of what I can do because I am allowed to. Why wouldn’t I vote? Why wouldn’t I want to go to school to get a career and better my life and my childrens’ lives?
Then I was thinking about the movie, "It’s a Wonderful Life”. It is not just me and my family that I am improving by going to college and getting a degree. It is also the lives I touch with in my journey as a student at MPTC. The instructors, the student senate, the classmates, the office staff, the people that read my blog... The lot of you could be and are in some way affected by me. If I was sitting at home or working a job I hated…none of that journey would exist.
How great is this!?
Make it a great one!
Kirsten
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Online Summer Classes
Hello and welcome back to The Scribbler! I am the Beaver Dam Moraine Park Technical College student blogger, Kirsten Lynch.
Today I started my online summer school classes, thank goodness! I like being busy and school is a guaranteed way to be just that!
With my last semester I had in the classroom classes and the homework was all posted via the internet. Online classes are very much different. With that being said they are not easier or more difficult, so far…I will keep you posted though!
I am taking Essentials of Sociology and Psychology Applied to Modern Life. These are both courses required for my IA (Instructional Assistant) program.
So far what I have done is copied and pasted all of the directions given to me online into a word document. Then in a different color I typed notes for each direction. This allows me to type DONE under each direction when I am finished with it. This gives my virtual learning a more tangible feel to it. I am sure I am creating more work for myself than necessary but I don’t want to miss an assignment just because I did not look at it close enough.
The MPTC instructors are great, even the ones I haven’t met in person yet! They have all been so willing to answer my questions and offer assistance where they can. I have often felt like I am their only student. How great is that?
Make it a great one!
Kirsten
Today I started my online summer school classes, thank goodness! I like being busy and school is a guaranteed way to be just that!
With my last semester I had in the classroom classes and the homework was all posted via the internet. Online classes are very much different. With that being said they are not easier or more difficult, so far…I will keep you posted though!
I am taking Essentials of Sociology and Psychology Applied to Modern Life. These are both courses required for my IA (Instructional Assistant) program.
So far what I have done is copied and pasted all of the directions given to me online into a word document. Then in a different color I typed notes for each direction. This allows me to type DONE under each direction when I am finished with it. This gives my virtual learning a more tangible feel to it. I am sure I am creating more work for myself than necessary but I don’t want to miss an assignment just because I did not look at it close enough.
The MPTC instructors are great, even the ones I haven’t met in person yet! They have all been so willing to answer my questions and offer assistance where they can. I have often felt like I am their only student. How great is that?
Make it a great one!
Kirsten
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Summer Vacation
Hello and welcome to The Scribbler!
How has your summer been so far? I went to my student orientation on June 1st. The class was for students who are new to online classes. The class was very informative and I even got a credit or so for it. Student orientation is very important even if you are not a new student. They teach the in’s and out’s of classes you are signed up for, how to orientate through E-College, and the importance of reading e-mails instructors send.
E-College is a way to take online classes and to do homework. It is an easy and great way to take classes at home and navigate homework assignments as well. My program that I am in is both online and in the classroom (Blended Classes). Even though there is no teacher there with me when I am taking online classes, there is always support and ways to get answers to my questions right away.
Choosing a program is key to college success. It helps set goals for yourself and enables more opportunities though grants and financial aid. I chose the IA program; Instructional Assistant. After my time at Moraine Park Technical College I will have gained an Associates Degree in Instructional Assistant (teacher assistant). I plan on then going to a 4 year college to become a teacher. I gave myself plenty of time to finish the tech college and it seems if I can keep going the way I am I may finish in three years.
I have been busy getting my kids ready for the trip to their dad’s for the summer. Cleaning, packing, sorting, purging, playing, planning and having fun together is what has made up the last two weeks. We drove to Ohio to drop them off Friday night. Ohio is the half way point to where the kid’s dad lives. We got home Sunday at 4 a.m. Man, we were beat!
On Monday I will be starting my summer classes and I cannot wait! There is just so much spider solitaire and Facebook a girl can handle! I almost started painting the dining room but I knew that would take more time than one round of solitaire and it seems my down time is so sporadic these days!
If you are thinking about taking classes this fall at Moraine Park Technical College, this is the time to do it! Make sure you pick a program that you enjoy! http://www.morainepark.edu/programs-and-courses/
Make it a great one!
Kirsten
How has your summer been so far? I went to my student orientation on June 1st. The class was for students who are new to online classes. The class was very informative and I even got a credit or so for it. Student orientation is very important even if you are not a new student. They teach the in’s and out’s of classes you are signed up for, how to orientate through E-College, and the importance of reading e-mails instructors send.
E-College is a way to take online classes and to do homework. It is an easy and great way to take classes at home and navigate homework assignments as well. My program that I am in is both online and in the classroom (Blended Classes). Even though there is no teacher there with me when I am taking online classes, there is always support and ways to get answers to my questions right away.
Choosing a program is key to college success. It helps set goals for yourself and enables more opportunities though grants and financial aid. I chose the IA program; Instructional Assistant. After my time at Moraine Park Technical College I will have gained an Associates Degree in Instructional Assistant (teacher assistant). I plan on then going to a 4 year college to become a teacher. I gave myself plenty of time to finish the tech college and it seems if I can keep going the way I am I may finish in three years.
I have been busy getting my kids ready for the trip to their dad’s for the summer. Cleaning, packing, sorting, purging, playing, planning and having fun together is what has made up the last two weeks. We drove to Ohio to drop them off Friday night. Ohio is the half way point to where the kid’s dad lives. We got home Sunday at 4 a.m. Man, we were beat!
On Monday I will be starting my summer classes and I cannot wait! There is just so much spider solitaire and Facebook a girl can handle! I almost started painting the dining room but I knew that would take more time than one round of solitaire and it seems my down time is so sporadic these days!
If you are thinking about taking classes this fall at Moraine Park Technical College, this is the time to do it! Make sure you pick a program that you enjoy! http://www.morainepark.edu/programs-and-courses/
Make it a great one!
Kirsten
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