I finished reading the 3 chapters for one of my classes last night and managed to write the two original posts due by the end of the day. I still have a chapter to read in my other course with a post due at 5 minutes to midnight tonight. I am confident I’ll get it done.

Not only did I avoid avoidance techniques, but I finished my homework with time to spare!

I am engaged in avoidance behaviors. Actually, I’m suffering from Educational Anal Glaucoma – I can’t see my ass doing my school work. I’ve put away the laundry. I am next going to clean out the litter box. After that? Oh hell, I don’t know………

One, seems there’s some kind of brute attack going on against WordPress sites so a pop-up is saying to use WordPress for both the user and password. If you have a user name for this site and plan on commenting, or such, go ahead and do as it says. If you’re just here to read, hit cancel.

Two, my classes for Spring 2017 have shown up on Moodle. Moodle is the program used to organize and control online classes at the U of M. It looks like I’m up for a lot of writing this semester as both classes are writing intensive. Unfortunately I was a bit late in getting around to registering for classes, so I didn’t have much of a choice. And that’s alright. I need to bone up on academic writing anyway. I am going to be much busier this semester than last. And last semester kicked my ass! Thankfully I don’t have any lectures I need to be watching 3 times a week like I did with Intro to Psychology. That was brutal. However, I believe there will be a weekly presentation in the Pharmacy class. Oh, and only one class has a text book, which is History of Psychology.

Technically both classes start on the 17th. However, I am planning on getting a jump on them this weekend. Actually, I already got a jump on both by watching the introduction videos. My hope is that though I’m taking 6 credits this semester, they will be less work overall than the 4 credit Intro to Psychology class of last semester.

After having a rough middle I’ve settled back into my education. I had a rough week of not sleeping well and struggling with exams and quizzes. In fact, I thought I was taking a practice progress quiz, which I had 5 available tries. Unfortunately I was not fully awake and didn’t realize it was the actual quiz. So, instead of finding out where I needed to work on I instead got a crappy score. It had an impact on my grade. Sunk me to a C. However, I rebounded on the Progress Exam #2 with an 82% and also did well on some discussion groups. My grade is now back to an A-! I am very happy about that. We are starting to wind down. In fact, I have only two weeks left.

With that in mind, I’ve been putting more effort into getting my essays for each chapter done right after I read the chapter. I submitted one today and it was at a 90%! And the one before that was scored at 83%. So I have high hopes of maintaining that A-.

So, that’s my update on college.

I managed to get through 3 lectures as well as review a chapter and take the quiz. Also, I participated in an online discussion. All in all a productive school day!

They put in a new column – well a row actually – in our grades page. Up until today I really didn’t know how I was doing. I was getting the “work of the class” stuff done, with high points. But with the essays, progress quizzes, and the first exam, I figured I was hurting.

Anyway, my grade at this point? A-

Yeah, seriously. A-

The first thing I thought “Okay, who the hell am I, and what did I do with me?”

Think about it a minute, it’ll make sense.

Anyway: Holy Mother Boiling Pot of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, how did I manage an A-? In the past a class like this would have seen me chocking on water.

Again, think about it…..

Geez. An A-

I’m going to go look in the mirror and see if it’s really me in the reflection.