Well, I start my first of three remaining classes on Monday, English Composition Research. How exciting, right? Actually it is exciting. I’ve done both online classes and live presence classes. There are things I love about online classes: an open schedule, the ability to do what I need to do and just get it done, and finally, solo work. However, as a bachelor who up until now was living on his own, online classes meant staying at home, infront of my computer, for longer periods of time than I would like. Hence the delema of not having any sort of interaction with another person. Oh sure there are the forums and posts between other class members, but it is the equivalent of you reading my blog. I have in essence gone and nailed something to a post somewhere in the vastness of the Internet and you decided to read it. There is no real interaction even if you nail a reply up.

The other problem was the lack of discussion on discussion questions. I mean real discussion. Most of the time, the responses to the discussion questions would be almost the same from each individual. I quite often had to play devils advocate to get a debate going, to get some interaction, some life. Even then it wasn’t very good.

So I’m looking forward to being locked in a room two nights a week with a Professor and several students.