My Pink Shoelace

Full time work and full time school load don’t really mix well and though several have tried to make both work but believe me something along the line one’s got to give. Take a good friend of mine for example, she’s studying full time undergrad and when the big examinations day arrive she has no choice but to go absent from work. Now as for me school has been great but I’d love to do it online and after doing a bit of research online I found an online university that offers flexible hours and unique programs to choose from. What’s great is that this is a non-profit school which makes them way cheaper than any other university. So even though you got a very busy work schedule it is still not impossible to earn a degree. Now I have been wanting to study at my own pace without having to drive physically to school so finding out several available online degree programs made me rather ecstatic, hope to get started really soon.

I am finally doing what I should have done last October 2009 but it cannot be helped as I was sick then but now I seem to be alright, thank God so I am taking the comprehensive exam for my masters degree this March and am hoping to ace this one.

I emailed my boss and our OM that I’d like to go on leave for a week so I could study and prepare for the exams and I am quite happy to say that he approved it. Yiipppeee! I reminded my team lead and she send an email to the FC’s to have it plotted whoooppeee! So in the next few days I will be busy compiling my notes and studying … time to hit the dusty library.

So wish me luck! and do pray for me guys I’d love to pass during the first try and be done with it.

I am going to take the exam this March [first week of March] and I cannot live with myself if I fail. Sheyt! I am book smart and it’d be a major disgrace if I don’t ace this; problem is I have been on hiatus from school for close to a year … so I’d have to cram 2 years worth of lessons into my cro-magnon skull. Grrrrr …

So safe to say I am scared shitless and I am hoping the vl I filed for a week gets approved otherwise you know what  would be EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!

Busy busy busy busy …. super busy. *sigh* May 16 is the deadline of my portfolio for my Masters in SPED, it is also the deadline for the completion of all my TESOL modules. Am still halfway through … waaaaaaaaaaa.

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*sigh* School has been taking most if not all of my time. Am doing my practice teaching at a SPED center somewhere in Mandaue and am assigned at the Pre-School/Grade 1 leve, Hearing Impaired children.Now I need a refresher on my sign language and am just finding it hard. Huhuhuhuhu. It is definitely a challenge and one of the reasons why I have not visited any of you guys back … so sorry but when this is done, things would definitely go back to the way they were.

Went to school earlier to have my clearance signed and to enroll for the summer. I only have one more subject to take and that is Strategies and Teaching Apprenticeship, my ticket to taking the comprehensive exam by the end of May. If all goes well and I pass the comprehensive exam then I’d be writing my thesis by June and finish my masters degree by March 2010.

The trend nowadays is doing things online. People do their banking online, paying bills online, shopping online and now there are a lot of online schools to choose from. Just like the regular schools that offer a variety of scholarship programs, these online schools also offer online school financial aid. Factors such as intelligence, course of choice amongst others are to be considered in the grant of the financial aid.

The usual thought was that these online classes would only be for self-improvement courses. Nothing major or degree holding. But this has changed as quite many people are enrolling to these classes with the aim of finishing an online college major degree. Like psychology, education, criminilogy and many others. Now isn’t that amazing? Studying at the comfort of your homes with a cup of coffee next to the computer. *sigh* Technology certainly is amazing.

It’s been awhile since I posted something new here … *sigh*. Am still catching up on school stuff and it hasn’t been easy. Finals is fast approaching so as you might expect … papers, papers, papers and whole bunch of sh*t are almost due.

Will be back as soon as this is overrrrrrrrr. Wish me luck

For my masters degree, I still have 4 subjects (12 units) remaining before I can take the comprehensive exam, the result of which would determine if I can proceed in writing my technical paper alongside taking the Intensive Practicum. Getting my technical paper approved and passing the Intensive Practicum would earn me my masters degree in Special Education major in Hearing Impairment. Unfortunately students are allowed to take only 9 units every semester, but with the dean’s approval a student can carry 12 units (an overload) provided that the student is a full time student or a scholar lol and damn it am neither. Though I strongly feel that managing my time should not be any of their business but I respect the school’s decision. Given the odds, even if I finish the 12 units by March, take the comprehensive exam by summer and lets say I pass it and they’d grant me enrollment on the Intensive Practicum and Technical Writing by June of 2009, I’d still graduate by March 2009 as they don’t hold commencement exercises on October.

My course of action given the changes am facing, is to take the 9 units this second semester, enroll the other 3 units by June, take the comprehensive exam by October 2009, and hopefully with God’s grace, enroll on the Intensive Practicuum and Technical Writing by November and finish by March 2009.

Still a long shot but better that than having none to follow at all.

23 on the 23rd … presents are very much appreciated. lol!

So I went to school which was a drag actually … all I wanted to do was just curl up in bed and dream, the everlasting dream (toinks!!!). My class began at 12:00 Noon, Introduction to SPED, there were so many students and I was seated at the back I had a hard time hearing my professor as her voice was so soft. ‘Twas okay I met two new friends, my seatmates basically. So in between listening partly to the lecture we were chitchatting. Hehehe (typical student!!). My next subject though was a disaster I think, SPED 4010 – Strategies and Teaching Apprenticeship, when I got inside the classroom the first thing I noticed were the fact that my classmates were “older” and they seem to know each other pretty well. So the usual roll call was followed by the “checking” if we’re s’pose to be there in the first place. And that’s where the problem lies, am taking Intro to SPED with Strat which is not s’pose to be, all the major subjects should be taken in sequence, what’s left for me to take in my majors are Intro to SPED, Issues and Trend and Strategies.

But I cannot take Strat with Intro, I need to be done with Intro first before anything else. Wheew!! So with the professor telling me am basically lost, I was advised to change the subject and with Jyn to help me, am changing it to Music for Special Education and am adding another subject to fill in my 8-11 AM sched with Reading Readiness and Language Dev’t.

The in charge in the office was shocked why am taking Strat, when it should be the last subject to take before taking the comprehensive exams. So she approved the changes and as its 5PM already we’ll continue working on the changes on Monday and if all goes well.

This would be my new schedule.

8:00 – 11:00 AM : Reading Readiness and Language Development

12:00 – 3:00 PM : Introduction to Special Education

3:00 – 6:00 PM : Music for Special Education

 I’d be paying an additional amount for the 3 units am adding to my study load. With this schedule am taking the 6 units required for my Cognate Courses and 3 for my Major Course. Leaving me 6 units (2 subjects) more for my Major and 3 units (1 subject) for my Foundation Courses.

With all these said I’d be taking hopefully 9 units next semester, take my Comprehensive Exam next summer and work on my Intensive Practicuum and Technical Paper on the 1st Semester S.Y. 2009 – 2010. Weee … that sounds like a plan to me at least I have some sort of direction, Jyn and I are ecstatic at the thought of finishing the course and am just praying she’ll finish it first before leaving the country for the States.

Things I’ve missed : The company outing at Vistamar. I haven’t been there as I missed last year’s company outing and am missing it again this year hopefully I’d still have next year to attend to. Question is would I still be with the company to enjoy such privilege by then?