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Robert J. Taylor

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The idea behind Robert's Random is for me to write about whatever I'm thinking about whenever I'm thinking it. I try to write 3-5 times a week, but sometimes real work gets in the way of that. Sometimes I'll share whatever random thought I might have that day but most of the time, I like to write about things going on in the news. I'm a total news junkie, I spend a lot of time online at various news sites. If I find a story where someone does something totally stupid or I wonder "what were they thinking?" I don't mind pointing it out incase others missed it or taking my best guess at what they were thinking. I like to laugh, I like to make others laugh. There's so much serious and wrong stuff going on in the news that when I find an unusual or light story, I like to use it. And while real life news events might be the focus of many of my blogs, I'm just trying to entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even think about something you didn't know before reading. I'm not trying to break any serious news or deliver any hard-hitting coverage. You'll have to read a paper or watch one of the network shows for that.
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Three more chapters to go

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 4:05 PM

One of my assignments this week is to read the final three chapters in the course's required textbook. It's the final three chapters for my master's degree and once I complete them, probably tonight or tomorrow, I will have read every chapter of every textbook for my degree program.

I've almost finished my master's degree via online courses. The biggest difference between online classes and regular classes is online classes you have to teach yourself a lot more. In regular classes, you can go to lectures and listen to the teacher talk. On online classes, it's mostly reading from the textbook and doing a bunch of other, well, pretty much busy work.

As an undergraduate student, I would buy the required textbooks, do the required reading for the first three weeks and then realize the teacher was teaching straight from the book so there was no need to keep reading on my own. Instead, I would use the books only to complete study guides.

My final semester, I got a pretty crazy idea. I decided since I didn't read textbooks anyways, I would forego buying them my last semester. This seemed like a good idea the beginning of the semester when I didn't have to fork over $200-400 for textbooks before school started. But once classes started, this became a less and less of a good idea. Especially when teachers started assigning assignments from the books.

Sometimes I would borrow a book from a classmate, but as the semester dragged on, this became a chore and resulted in me just skipping the assignments. It's not a coincidence that I earned my lowest GPA this semester. Or that I earned my first "C" my final semester of college.

Not buying/reading textbooks isn't something I would recommend to perspective college students out there.

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  • Robert, Robert, Robert. What were you thinking? I trust that you bought your book(s) prior to being awarded anything less than a C. What are we going to do with you? You are a smart guy...be less "cheap." Take care.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Tue, May 12, 2009, at 3:26 PM
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