Online Education Review

I have take roughly 7 or 8 online courses over the last four years. I have enjoyed some and dreaded some. I was glad this was one i enjoyed. I liked the structure of having assignments due on a daily basis and that the grading system is very fair. I have never been a fan of online classes where the teacher grades extremely hard because I believe the student is at a disadvantage. I prefer the classroom as opposed to being online. However, with a busy schedule I do believe the online learning can be very effective. I would easily take some of my online courses again, but at the same time there are some I would easily not take again. 

I prefer the college classroom 

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Gen. Ed. Review

I think the gen. ed. program does need a big overhaul. I am glad to hear OU is considering that. Although, I do not know what direction they are going I know what I would like it to look like as a student. Personally, if you are not a major that requires science I believe there is no reason to take a science class. Many people who will never need science or have interest in science struggle in those classes a lot and it provides no help to them later in life. Going to law school and hoping to be a corporate attorney I am not sure when I will ever use geology, meteorology, or nutrition in my life. I learned more about meteorology by watching the weather growing up as a kid in Oklahoma than I did from my professor. Also, my geology TA was fired after my semester for failing too many kids as they had to correct the grades for our lab section just so we would all get Bs and Cs while all the other sections got As. English requirements are fine I believe along with math and history. However, the arts is another section that is troublesome. Understanding Music is one of the biggest jokes of a class I have ever been in. Glad to hear Boren is finally considering a change to the curriculum instead of just worrying how many national merits we can get to come to OU.

Speaking of Meteorology: Moore, OK

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College Writing Review

Coming out of high school I considered myself a pretty good writer. I took AP English my senior year and my teacher made it his goal to have us prepared to start writing at the college level.  English Comp 1 and 2 were helpful classes but I also felt like I was doing a lot of busy work in those classes instead of working on how to write. However, I am a Letters major with a Constitutional Studies minor so most of my classes are writing based. I have mastered the ability to write a very long paper in a short amount of time and get a B on it. Although that is a terrible skill when I do put a lot of time in papers I seem to get As pretty easily. College has made me a better writer and I do attribute a lot of my writing skills to my high school, but overall there are still many little things I need to work on as I move forward into law school. Some things I feel like are just inherent to a person as habitual and very hard to overcome. For example, I struggle greatly with proof reading my own work because I know what I want it to say and read it that way instead of what it actually says, therefore, I misread almost all of my work when proofreading.

One of the more interesting stories from this half of the class

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