Well, this is the end of my second week of online classes. Thus far things seem to be going well, I enjoy the forum interactions with my classmates, but not having that face to face contact, sometimes I get the sense that some of my classmates are a-holes. They probably aren’t, but when you just read text, you tend to read into things, and often your mood at the time you are reading what they wrote colors your perception of what is written. If for example you are tired, and therefore irritable, chances are that you will have a more negative view of what is written compared to when you are rested.

The one thing that I don’t like as much with online classes is that the class materials are released one week at a time, which means that I don’t have the opportunity to do what I normally do: front load the semester with all the reading, and most of the assignments, and then cruise through the last quarter of the semester with just maintenance work.

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OK, so this is my second week in my online class experiment. This is the first time ever that I am taking online classes and I have to say that thus far I like it. It reminds me a lot of my ‘early days’ on the internet, where I spent a ton of time in Yahoo! Chat and in various forums (such as macosx.com and howardforums.com), except instead of reading about the newest apple product, or the newest Nokia, Motorola or Ericsson phone and then offering up an informed opinion, the topics are more academic and there is homework to hand in on top of the forum postings and chat sessions.

We’ll see how the rest of the summer goes, but I am feeling positive (maybe I will do more online classes in the future)

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So my classes started this week, both online and face to face.
The face to face class should offer no surprises (given that I know how face to face classes work).
I am particularly interested in seeing how the online classes will work ou,

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Classes start tonight, but convocation is tonight as well!

I have decided to skip class (shock!) to go to convocation.

Normally I would not care (I skipped last year's convocation and graduation), but this time I am getting an award.

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