Hello all! I am actually looking forward to letting it all out in this one. I really feel that the past six weeks of school have been the worst yet. I really want to be able to focus and put that 110% in like I have in the previous terms, but I have found a lack of enthusiasm among myself and am ashamed to say so. I was really enjoying being an honors student and was very proud of myself for that, but I do not think I will be an honors student after this term.. Its not that i find the curriculum to be boring in any way, its just that for some reason I have not been able to focus very well. I thought by week 3 I would have snapped out of this thing I am in, but not it is week 6 and I am still dazed. I know there was a lot going on at the beginning of the term that involved my personal life, which may have been a factor in this "daze" that I am in. I just hope that I can get my act together and still pass my classes with at least a B+. I think that I am just really mad at myself for not doing my best. I cant really use life as an excuse for this one because I really do have plenty of time to do my school work. The only real great thing that has happened during these past 6 weeks is that I have decided to change my degree plan and get my Bachelors degree instead of an Associates. It seems easy right now to focus on my long term goals and see myself down the road. I know I will snap out of this spell I'm in and get myself motivated.

Oh my gosh, I think that school has had a total impact on my life. Not just because I am here to better my self, but because I am learning who I am, which is something that I have really struggled with in my life. I am only 27, but sometimes I feel like I should already be who I am supposed to be and know who I am. Going to school was something that I started doing because I wanted to make more money and have more job options, and it has become this secret world of discovery for me! It seems that every term, I learn more about what what I want to become, and not just career wise, but deep down in my soul. This term has only been a few weeks, and I have already made some major life changes. Some of the changes are do to research that is school involved, and other changes are because other people like students and my professors have inspired me. This is and has been an amazing ride, and I am glad that I decided to get on the bus.

School seems to be going okay at this point in time. It has been a bit of a struggle to stay on track, especially with the good weather right now, but I know I will pull through. Although I can imagine there could be certain things that would potentially get in my way, and plagiarism is definitely one of them. I hope that I never have to deal with plagiarism while I am in school, and I know that I will fallow all guidelines to help me avoid this type of situation. The only real way that plagiarism would or could affect me is if someone were to take credit for my work, which could potentiality make me look like the fraud! How awful is that?! I cant really see it happening because Kaplan does have strict plagiarism rules at school, but if it did I know I would be mad and scared that I would be the one that was suddenly accused of such an act.....which could happen. I think that this is why it is important to have your own way of saying things and being true to yourself in everything you write. Being true in your writing may be the only way to be able to prove that you are a truthful person. It seems a shame that people do plagiarize, and very juvenile I might add. I would like to think that people are paying good money to go to school so that they can learn more about themselves, not so that they can learn to become better cheaters.

This has really been a crazy last few weeks for me. I have tried to make my family and school the most important things in my world, but unfortunately school has been put on the back-burner these last couple of weeks. I have been a stay at home mother for the past 18 months, but unfortunately is has taken a finical toll on my husband and I. We made the decision right before the term started that I was to go back to work ASAP. It was easy getting my old job back, but it wasn't so easy going back. I had imagined in my mind that I would drive the baby to daycare, drive to work and when I got home in the evening my husband would have already picked the baby up from daycare and we would live happily ever after. I turned out to not be so easy, infact we had not even put the baby in daycare yet when I started back to work and things were already getting crazy. By the time I got home from work I was so brainfried that I could barely do my school work. Not to mention, my poor baby had been without her mother for over 8 hours. After about a week of this non sense, my hubby and I both decided to call off the idea of me trying to go back to work. I want to be able to focus on school, I feel like it's my last chance to prove to the world and myself that I am smart and that I can succeed in whatever I set out to do.

Wecome All!

This is my first blog posting for the class. I never even knew what bogging was until about 3 months ago when I decided to investigate it and open my own blog account. I posted to the account one time and never found the time to do it again; probably because school takes up all of my time. But here is my chance to blog and have the time to do it because of the fact that it is school related.