Face-to-Face vs. Online Classes or Constructive Feedback Essay
I now hope that my discussion to take online classes was a good one, December 2010 my Grandmother found out that she had breast cancer; I dedicated myself to make sure that she went to her appointments, because I was raised by my grandparents. At first I decided to keep my life outside of work to myself. I was attending classes and taking my grandmother and my grandfather to their medical appointments, and taking care of my family. April 2011 we found out that my grandfather had terminal lung cancer; this was all confusing to me because my grandfather never smoked a day in his life. We buried him in July 2011. Before his death I decided to take classes online, so that I would be able to continue to take my grandmother to her chemo treatments and to prepare her for surgery, she decided she wanted to remove the breast.
When deciding to go back to school as an adult, I was faced with the option of taking classes on line, or attending classes on campus. It was a very difficult decision for me to make at first, because I wanted to make sure that whatever decision I made was a good one. I knew what degree I wanted to pursue, I just didn’t know what school I wanted to attend, because so many universities are now offering classes online, I wanted to pick a school that worked best for me. After months of searching and consulting with others I decided to attend Barry University. One reason I decided on Barry, was because I would be able to attend classes at the local community college in my home town and not have to travel, the other reason was because the closer I got to graduating I would be able to take my classes online, and that worked out good for me because of my busy schedule.
I was very much afraid of taking online classes with my schedule being as crazy as it is, I understood that web-based classes require considerably more work, which would require me to spend many nights up doing