Finals week is here!

I have reached the end of my first term at Westwood Online. It was a mid-term course, 9 week course shortened to 5 weeks. The workload has been pretty heavy, but nothing I could not keep up with. I've really enjoyed the Business class and have scored 100% on all my written assignments and weekly class discussions. My grade at the end of week 4 is 94.99%. I have missed a few questions off the quizzes each week which has knocked my score down a few points.

Last week I was at home Tuesday - Friday and found it a lot more difficult to get my school work done, even though I had a lot more time to do it than if I was on the truck, It was much easier to get distracted by other things rather than do my school work. When I went back on the truck Friday I found I had a lot of work left to do, and only 2 days left. I completed all my assignments but was left 'skimming' on my reading assignments, which resulted in missing 6 out of 18 questions on the quiz last week. I was not happy with myself with that result, that is the most I had missed in this course on a quiz.

Basically what we have covered in business class is economics, e-business,management,marketing and unions. Week 2 - 4 we had to find a business article off the web and write a report relating to that weeks studies. Last week I found a story about how a woman used market research studies to increase sales of her pubic hair coloring product line,and since we were studying marketing I figured it was the best match! Very interesting article from Forbes.com.

Maybe being on the truck is a good thing. When you have really nothing else to do but study, you can get a lot more done. I was wandering why the instructors were complaining about people not getting their work in on time, and my student adviser told me I was one of the quickest. I thought for people at home they should have plenty of time to do there school work, unlike me working 14 hours a day. Now I understand, more free time is not always a good thing unless you learn how to self discipline.

I am having a bit more trouble in success strategies, I went into the class thinking it was going to be a real easy course. I was wrong, it is a lot tougher than it sounds. It took me three weeks to get a 100% on a written assignment. The first few weeks I failed to do spelling and grammar checks and the instructor is very hard on those things in this class. Last week I turned in an assignment where I was supposed to write 5 sentences per paragraph on the assignment, but came up a little short because I was just stumped; did not know what to say. Also I turned in an assignment but did not properly attach the document, so I got a 0 for no submission. It's a good thing the assignment was only worth 20 points. I have re-submitted the assignment and hope that I can at least get a 10 for it. Overall I'm at 82.91% after 4 weeks, so that's still is not to bad.

During the mid-term test 2 weeks ago I scored 126/150, and the final assessment test is this week. For my final project in business class I did a "job shadowing" report of my patrol ride along with Denver PD, and I interviewed my buddy about his job there. I suspect I should get a high grade on that report, I completed that today and submitted it.

Next week is a break and then we begin our new term of 9 weeks and 3 classes, and should begin having Criminal Justice courses.