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.