My online courses for the Instructional Technology masters I'm working on start this week. The past week's worth of days have been a flurry of registering, unregistering (the online master's program at the university has a separate registration site from the regular registration website and registering through the standard registrar website put me in the wrong type of classes), re-registering through the correct site, waiting for the on-line bill to register the two new classes and discard the old class, and paying the tuition fees (over $2,000, yikes!), and finally paying said bill today, the deadline for payment.
Yes, I could have done most of this back in early July when registration for the fall semester opened, but that's just not me. I have to put things off and go into panic mode. If I don't push those deadlines, I end up with very mediocre and uninspired work.
And yes, I do think it's important to register for classes and pay tuition in an inspired manner. I believe in living an inspired life.
I'm actually not even sure if my payment worked. I haven't gotten an e-mail receipt like I usually do when I do online credit card payments. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to. I'm actually going to call my bank after I post this to see if there has been any activity on that card today. I clicked pay around 9 a.m. I'd think it'd would have registered by now.
But as long payment didn't fail and I'm not kicked out of class for nonpayment, I'll be spending the next few months working away at my computer in my attempt to become a media specialist. And I'll be repeating this process every semester, probably even summers, for at least two years. I'm not really looking forward to having to put all the extra work into these classes after work each day and on weekends, and I already know those textbooks that I will dutifully buy will sit largely unread just like every textbook I ever bought in college.
But it will be worth it when this helps me get out of the classroom and into a job that I think I'll actually really enjoy.
6 comments:
Don't forget to keep some time available for that MIT revolution class. Priorities, you know.
which school are you taking classes through?
Mama and Daddy's alma mater.
You could try out something revolutionary: Read the text books.
Congratulations. This is a big step.
Yes, congrats on making this move.
I'm almost surprised that an online media specialist program uses textbooks. I would expect all the content to be online.
Tuition fees are a monetary ass-raping. I dug myself into a nice little pit of debt when I had to pay mine, especially since I had to pay out of state tuition for a full year before qualifying for in-state.
Good job on getting started, though. That's the hardest part. Are all your classes online?
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