Well after the first two quiz results and assignment one I am maintaining a 4.0 grade average. The first assignment really had me frazzled with having to do things in APA format, never before have I had to do this. This being the case I have no qualms about sharing my first assignment which was a breach report.

Is there no such thing as our true self?
Are we only actors performing roles based on the positions we occupy in society and culture?

As I plod along through this course I cannot but reflect on myself and life over the last many years. Of all topics to come across was that of suicide. I had to briefly ponder that, and how socially we all had our parts to play in that last desperate action of an old friend. It is also interesting to reflect upon the emergence of a community, to be there nearly from the beginning, and to have witnessed where it has gone up to the point where I have departed from it. From a sociological standpoint I now somewhat understand the how’s and why’s and cycles of it.

Right now I am currently working through a module on Socialization and Symbolic interactionism and part of the module was this video. After watching it I had to sit and write this particular post because well it just made me want to sit and reflect for a few and to write. Here is the video and maybe you might need to reflect as well.

Well this morning I handed in assignment one. We shall see how that goes. Now I am pondering as I currently have no real outside activities other than work, should I fast track. IN reality I could have this course completed in 30 days or so. But is that beneficial? should I slog it out for the full duration?

What say you?

Well first quiz was not due for another few weeks. But I was curious and 3 attempts are alotted per quiz so rather nervously I attempted the first quiz. This quiz was on Karl Marx. 45 minutes are allotted for each attempt. I was done in 10 and hit submit. To my surprise 9/10. I still had two more attempts. I thought I would leave it and looked back at my results. The answer I got wrong only had three possible answers, and I had two more attempts. I was happy with the 90, but I had two more attempts. Should I???? what if the second attempt had completely different questions. Should I? or be satisfied? what if?? OH the Agony…

SO big decision went out for a smoke and came back in the house with mind made up. 90 is good 100 is better….but what if?….shut up paranoid self we are doing this. Boom 100 percent on second attempt. Woot!!!!! second hurdle crossed… should I submit my first essay??? that is the next agony!

The first assignment is done.
I am beginning to wonder was I ready for this. Should I have done a “free” course just to get back into the swing of things? This is where I could use some feedback….. really for certain feedback. I have just so many questions that I would feel silly asking the prof about.

Learning environment. I find online learning more challenging than in-class. Online lets me work somewhat to my pace, with the exception of quiz/exam and assignment deadlines and this is awesome because I work nights. The downside I am finding so far is the regular modules are there, but what I find lacking is direction on what should be read for each module from the required textbooks. I suppose this could be a Prof oversight. What I also find lacking is real-time, in-person interactions, and getting to know your peers type of things. This is hilarious considering the course I am taking is “Introduction to Sociology” the online environment has really changed the “social” aspect of learning. It reminds me of an episode of Seaquest 2032 season 2 episode 5. the synopsis of that episode is SeaQuest traveling 200 years into the future to save the last two humans alive. The premise of that episode is that man created a supercomputer that eventually took over all the mundane tasks for humans and eventually became sentient, it continued to take on all tasks, and attempted to alleviate the need for man to do anything. In doing so it created what one would assume would become a utopian society, but in reality, became a dystopian one. A disease forced humanity into seclusion as the computer saw the only way to combat the disease was to limit human interaction. So to allow for interaction the computer created a virtual reality for man to while away his days. Once the disease ran its course humankind no longer had the ability to socialize in the real world. Humanity withered instead. The computer seeing the errors of its ways realized in order to survive it must cease to exist so that humanity could be rekindled.