End of Term

A piece of advice I would give for new students is to make sure and do all of the required reading because they have a lot of good and helpful information to help you write a good research paper.  It can teach you about things you may not have known and remind you of things that you had forgotten.  All in all there is always something that you can learn and to make the most of what you are given is always the best way to go.

Ask for help whenever you need it and don't hesitate to ask for help and advice from classmates.

This class has been fun and I hope to take what i've learned with me in my college and professional career.

Well the term is almost over and I am almost finished with my papers for both classes.  It wasn't easy because I have fallen behind from personal issues going on in my life, but I am glad it is almost over and I hope next term will go better.

I am feeling better this week than I have in the past few.  I think that the holiday's are just so stressful and money is so tight that things start to feel overwhelming but I am trying harder to look on the positive side. 

As the New Year begins I find myself wondering where the last one went.  My baby girl is almost a year old and I feel as if I am not ready for it.  I am trying to lose weight and it has been such a struggle because I am always so busy I find it hard to eat right and exercise.  I bought my kids the WII Fit Plus and I have played with them on it some but not as much as I would like.  I really got a workout when I did play on it. 
I am not sure how I am going to make it through the last few months of my education or even through to the end of this term.  I always feel like I don't have time and then when I do I am so unmotivated that I struggle to do the work.  I am hoping I can get in to a better frame of mind and feel better about things, soon.

Overwhelmed

For over the last 6 weeks I have been dealing with being sick myself and taking care of my kids each getting sick one at a time and over and over.  It's been very busy and exhausting.  It's made it difficult over the last few weeks to keep up with school work and want to even keep up.  I am hoping that things will get better and after the Holiday Season is all over I am hoping to turn a new leaf and keep things under control and on time. 
This week is going to be hard because I have to get my rough draft turned in this week so that will be a challenge all it's own since I haven't really even gotten started.

Challenges

School is becoming harder for me in the sense of time.  When I originally decided to go back to school I had returned to work after having my baby, and a lot of things had changed.  Within a few weeks of being back to work they started laying people off because of the recession and even though they didn't lay me off they cut my hours in half.  When that happened I realized I needed to start looking for a different job and I started thinking about what area would be good to go in to.  That is when I decided that the medical field would be the best, because unfortunately there will always be a need for it.  And I also wanted a chance to stay at home with my kids for the few years they had left of school and be a bigger part of my baby girls life. 
But shortly after starting school my hours were increased due to someone moving away and I had a lot less time to study and do my homework.  So it has been a real challenge to find the time and energy to do what needs to be done.  Not to mention dealing with kids getting sick and getting sick myself from the flu.  It's frustrating at times and at times I tell myself I'm just going to quit but I know that would be a bad example for my kids and for myself, so I keep trying to push forward. 
Fortunately, I do have a wonderful man in my life, who refuses to let me give up and kids who keep telling me I can do it, so for them and myself I will continue.

Plagarism

It seems like to me that nowadays there are alot of people and organizations that are taking credit from or just simply taking away from the ones who deserve it.  For instance, YouTube and different free music download sites will put songs on their site that haven't even been released by the artist yet, taking away from that persons paycheck.  I have a girl at work that downloaded the new Adam Lambert song for the new movie "2012" off of Limewire and about a week or two later you couldn't download it or even here it on Youtube anymore because the company that produced his album took action to have them shut it down.  That too me only seems right because when they do things like that without permission they are taking credit for it and they are taking away from the artist and producers.

Just my opinion.

If it were me, I would be furious.