Finished With Classes
I’m finished with my classes for this section that I’m taking. I was two classes (which is my normal load.)
My class that I was taking online was “Ethical Decision Making in Business.” It is a required class for everyone that attends my college. At first, I resented being required to take the class, but I learned quite a bit in it. After the class, I was somewhat happy that I took it. It wasn’t hard. It was basically a bunch of reading, and then a good load of writing my thoughts about what the reading covered. There were also online forum conversations that I held with my fellow students. The class was run by a lawyer, and we had to cite all of our resources (which is normal,) but we also had to address all of our fellow students in formal language. When replying to someone else’s post, we had to address them as “Mr. Smith”, or “Ms. Jones” or something like that. It was kind of awkward. We also had to sign all of our postings with “Mr. Blumingworth” or whatever our last name was. I probably missed doing that last part on half of my postings. Now that the class is done, I expect to come out with an A in the class. My grades have been superb so far through the class. I fell a bit short on my final essay, but I think I’ll still manage to carry an A in the end.
My other class was “Security Breaches” in regards to computer security. I tried taking the class several times in the online forum, but there were never enough students enrolled for the university to justify holding the class. This meant that I had to resort to taking the class as a “guided independent study.” This means that the teacher tells you which books to read, and then they give you all of the reading assignments, homework, and tests up front. You then have to finish all of the homework, tests, and other exercises before the end of the class. I teach myself quite well, so this worked out great for me. This was my second GIS class, and I plan on taking at least two more. I prefer the online or in-class forum because I get interaction with my fellow students. However, I need the credits to finish the course work, so I had to resort to GIS.
My next two classes are going to be “Early Christian Ireland (431-1169)” and “Web and E-Commerce Security.” I’m really looking forward to both classes. The Ireland class is online, and the e-security class is also GIS. I ordered all of the books that I need for the classes, so I should be set by the time the classes start on October 23rd. I have all but one of the books. The univsersity bookstore was excellent. I ordered the books one day, and the next day, I had the books in hand. It worked out quite well. The last book that I’m waiting for is “out for delivery” today, so I’ll have it in hand when I get home from work.
There is also an award called the “The Lady Ada Lovelace Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer Information Systems, Computer Networking, Computer Science.” Yeah. Big name. It’s given to the person in a graduating class from the CIS, CN, or CS majors with the highest GPA. Two of my friends have earned the award, and I’m hoping to get it as well. My GPA currently stands at 3.75 (out of 4.00), but I’m not sure if that’s good enough to earn the award. Jhianna earned the award, but her GPA was much better than mine currently is. I’m hoping to be able to improve my GPA over the next couple of years. My GPA would be a little higher, but I got a C in College Algebra, and a B+ in a philosophy course. Everything else has been an A with a few A-’s thrown in. I’m through all of my hard courses, so I expect to be able to pull A’s in the rest of my classes. We’ll see how it goes.
