Archive for the 'Education' Category



My Own Learning Experience

Posted By Twyla on May 10, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

The most important decision I have made in my life so far was to pack up and move to another country. When I was finished high school, I wanted to experience the world. All of my friends were going off to college, and I did not feel like I was ready for this quite yet. I wanted to do more and experience more before I committed to another four years of school.

Part of my reasoning behind this is that I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do or study. I wanted to learn about other cultures and I decided to move to South America and do a little bit of studying on my own. I was going to be going to school, but it was not going to be the conventional kind that all parents want their kids to do.

I enrolled myself in Spanish School Antigua Guatemala and I packed my bags and boarded a plane. I was on my way to what would become my home for the next five years. I found that I was much happier doing this than I would have been if I had gone straight to college. And, now that I am in college, studying Anthropology, I feel that my experience has really opened my mind to learning.




Not a Typical College Student

Posted By Twyla on April 21, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

I am not a typical college student.  I am sitting here on the sofa working on my philosophy essay while my baby sleeps beside me, as I watch Friends on the television.  I am sure this would not work for most students, but this is how I get my work done.

When I was given a list of essay topics that I could write about I started reading them aloud and during that time my baby smiled her first smile.  I knew this was the topic that I was to write on and, although it may not be the greatest way to choose for some people, it worked for me.

There is not a time that I work on a school assignment, besides when I am in class, that my baby girl is not sitting right next to me.  In fact, I am doing this all for her and she is my greatest inspiration.




Getting Help or Buying an Essay

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 20, 2008 @ 12:19 am

I have been put in a situation where I don’t know what to do.  You see, I have a philosophy essay that is due, but I am having problems getting it done.  I don’t know what it is, but I cannot get my spark of creativity going, and I just site there, staring at the page.

I was faced with a choice at that point to help me get things done.  You see, the college has a center where you could get essay help for free.  They would help you with proofreading and getting your thoughts together - which is exactly what I needed.

But it would take time.  I was slowly running out and I had considered that I could go to one of those sites where you could buy essay papers and just purchase what I needed.  It would be a lot faster and easier.  But, there was an element of risk as I could risk getting in trouble.

In the end, I went to get the help I needed to get the essay done.  I felt much better knowing that I wrote it myself.




Filing Away My Coursework

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 19, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

Well with one more final left to go, I decided that it is time to pack up every essay that I wrote this past term and file away should I ever needed again.  I’ve been doing this for the past two years and honestly of only needed to look at an old dissertation once.

The main reason I’m keeping each thesis that I wrote is that according to college policy they are allowed to go back up to three years and re-evaluate the work that you did.  This doesn’t happen very often, but it does usually happen when students have been caught cheating or submitting work that they purchased.

Though I have not engaged in buying any assignments of any sort, I just feel better knowing that I do have them on hand should I need them in the future.

I won’t be completely done filing my assignments away until my last exam, and that is just one short week away.  I just can’t wait until this year is over.




Way Too Hard

Posted By Twyla on April 18, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

When I was in my first year of college it made me yearn for the days of GCSE coursework.  I did not realize going into it, that college was so much harder than high school.  At least the teachers in high school, had a little bit of compassion.  I found in college that I was nothing more to the teachers than a number.

I thought it would be great if I could just go back to high school and do my A level coursework forever.  It was what I was good at and I was wonder if I would ever find something that I was good at ever again.

I guess it’s not that college coursework is so much more difficult, it’s that there seems to be a lack of help available and I felt a little bit lost in such a big university.  Maybe, in fact, I was just not as ready as I thought I was to leave home.




Better Than a Correspondence Class

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 15, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

There been a couple times in my life where I considered taking a correspondence class to further my education.  Even though it seemed like a great idea to me, I’ve always been worried that I wouldn’t get all the coursework done, or that my silence would get lost in the mail.  I figured that it would be more of a hassle than it was worth so I have avoided them completely.

But when I learned that there were now a few places where you get college degrees online, I thought that it might be a good time for me to start learning again.  Perhaps if I took some classes, I might be able to get a better job and a higher salary.

I will have to decide between the health care degrees online or the online paralegal degrees.  Before I do that, I will have to look at the job market for both degrees and make my decision from there.




Helping the Kids with Homework

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 14, 2008 @ 8:07 am

I always thought that after I was done school, I would never have to do homework again.  But what I forgot to think about was the fact that someday when I was a parent I would be helping my children out with their homework.

I never really realized that this was going to happen until my son started doing book reports in elementary school.  He asked me for some help and then it dawned on me that I wasn’t going to escape doing homework for the rest of my life.

This became readily apparent as I helped him with his research papers in high school and then with a term paper in college.  Even though, I wasn’t graded on the work myself, his success was measured upon my ability to help him with his writing.  Since it was important for him to get good grades I made an extra effort to help him out.  I guess, it is okay that I’m there to help him, but I just want a break from doing homework.




The Wrong Teacher

Posted By Twyla on April 13, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

I have had so many friends tell me that their first year of psychology at college was the best class that they had ever taken.  Apparently, it was easy and a lot of fun.  That is why I was so disappointed when I found out what was required for my very first psychology essay.

The whole assignment seemed to be written in a completely different language and I knew that I would never live up to what this professor wanted from me.  I went to her to get some essay assistance and she wanted nothing to do with me and told me to figure it out on my own.

At the risk of expulsion, I went to a buy essay website and found something similar to what she was looking for.  I submitted an essay that was not my own and no one was ever the wiser, but I still feel bad that I had to do this and I wish that I hadn’t had such a bad experience in my first class.




Making My Way in the World

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 10, 2008 @ 11:03 am

I have been a university professor for more than 10 years now and I absolutely love what I do.  I will admit that it was not easy to get to where I am today and that there are some things in my past that I am not proud of.  When I was working on my dissertation, I did not have enough money to live as I needed to live, so I found a way to make money that may not have been the most ethical choice I could have made.

I decided that since I enjoyed writing, I would sell custom term papers for extra money.  I was living on my own and was having a hard time keeping up with the demands of paying my rent and all of my utility bills.  Selling the papers meant that I got to stay on my own and I didn’t have to move back in with my parents.

I also feel that I did a better job of my thesis by selling the term papers rather than getting a part-time job.  If I had to work I would not have had the time and effort it took to put into my thesis to make it excellent.  So, although it wasn’t ethical, I do not regret doing what I had to do to get through school.




Recipe for Easy Essay Writing

Posted By Misty Mountain on April 8, 2008 @ 11:14 pm

While I was in college I was kind of a bum.  I don’t mean a beggar on the street, but rather I was a little bit lazier than they should have been at a college level.  It didn’t mean that I wasn’t smart, but rather I was really getting tired of doing all the assignments and homework that we were given.

In an effort to get my college degree and do as little work as possible, I went online to see if I could find a company that would write my sociology essay for me.  From there I would submit many arts essays and management essays over the years as I was pursuing a business management degree with a minor in art.

Sure, I would proofread my purchased essays and maybe re-word them a little bit, but I would really invest no more than one hour per paper that I submitted.  This freed up my time so I could participate in more leisure activities as well display on the college basketball team.  Unlike most people, college was in stressful for me, it was fun.




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