December What?!

Can I just ask on question? What in Gods name happened to December?!?! I feel like I went to bed last night and it was Thanksgiving, and when I woke up this morning it was December 21. Its like a terrible prank or something. So needless to say, I will be one of the shmucks at the mall tomorrow night finishing my Christmas shopping- and by finishing I mean getting something for everyone in my life besides my dog. I saw an extra large breed Redskins jersey for him. Extra large breed things are harder to find than you would think, so I haaad to get it. That was about three weeks ago, because I had "plenty of time" to do Christmas shopping. I will tell you what, if I wasn't so scared of having my identity stolen, I would do all of my shopping online. Whats up with people anyways, why would anyone want to be me, I mean I live paycheck to paycheck, I am not set up to inherit anything, generally speaking, I wouldn't steal my identity. If you insist on being a thief, at least don't be lazy about it. Well it is late, and I am clearly very tired. This post of nothing but rambling pretty much proves that. I hope everyone has a great holiday! Good night!

One pitful of online classes

So I think it is safe to say that last night I was FREAKING out. I was trying to log in to my anatomy class to take my midterm from about seven in the evening until 12. I was so scared that I was not going to be able to take it. I emailed my advisor and our teacher, and everything is OK. I can take the test tomorrow evening, but I was scared. I had never experienced a tech problem like that before. This is also why I did one of my discussion responses and my blog a day late. I hope that this is just a one time thing, where I am not able to log in for a whole night. I don't have too much to say tonight because I am tired and I had a long day. I hope everyone is having a good week!

Plagerism- Just Say No

I don't agree with plagiarism ever, even in grounded classes. It is dishonest. However, for someone who is taking classes online and committing plagiarism.. I have one question, how did you get cheaper tuition that I did? I can not see spending the money that we are spending to be back in school just to copy someone elses work. You don't learn anything by simply regurgitating someone elses thoughts. Yes, obviously for research we are taking other peoples work and using it to make our arguments, but you learn much more by paraphrasing something rather than just quoting someone the whole time. If you force yourself to read the information and then re-word it you are absorbing more of the information. Also, you can copy a paper that says that you understand how to fix a transmission, but if you use that paper to land a job at the best mechanic shop in town, what are you going to do when someone needs to to fix their transmission? If you copied all of your work, you never actually learned how to do it. You just turned in a bunch of bull crap that tricked people into thinking that you could. Plagiarism just isn't worth it too me. It is dishonest and could get you kicked out of school. Even if you pass your degree would be worthless because you didn't actually learn anything. Have fun with your paper and just do your own work, it will be way more gratifying that way.