BSHS 325 Week 1

Holy CRAP!!! That's the first thing I need to say. I made the biggest mistake ever for a class this short. If you don't know already, University of Phoenix's classes run 5 weeks per class, except in certain types (some internships for example, are 15 week courses). This is a 5 week class, which starts on Tuesday and each week's assignments are due by the following Monday at 11:59 PM. Luckily for me, I have an additional hour because their time basis is an hour ahead of mine...yea!

Anyhow, back to this...this course started this past Tuesday (it's now the wee early hours of the following Monday). Because my last class ended the day before the new class started, I decided to give myself a break and log in a day late to class, which isn't a big deal. WRONG! Had I logged in the day class opened (which technically is one day before the start of class), I would have seen that we had SIX chapters to read the first week. I would have also seen that there are 5 chapters for each additional future week in this course. Did I mention SIX chapters? Did I also mention that several are around 50 pages each...when transferred to Microsoft Word Calibri 9 pt font with the photos removed? OUCH!

So all that being said, I sure kicked myself in the 'tucas' (as my father in law would say) for not getting on it sooner. I just barely completed a 1000 word essay and a worksheet of sorts with probably close to the same amount of words. *SIGH* Rough start to a seemingly intense class. Kind of kicking myself for not doing the psychology degree because at least with psychology, I have studied so much of it that I would just be getting a brush up. Okay, that being said, human services isn't really a shock to the system, but they definitely give you assignments where you need to have read the entirety of all the chapters and be able to refer back through them.

I'd like to add this: If you are enrolled here, learn from my mistake; LOG INTO CLASS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! You might otherwise find out you have a few thousand words that you will need to write in assignments and 5 or 6 chapters to read. Lesson learned.