I graduate next week. As expected, I’m speeding through my assignments just to get them over with; not necessarily to improve the quality of them and hone my skills. And I feel pretty guilty about that. But, that’s how I’ve felt about all my online classes. I definitely feel like something has been lost in translation, and I really wish I had worked it out another way so that I could have taken these last three classes on campus. I am virtually no more confident in my web skills than when I started, and I am not getting the good feeling of closure that I thought I was going to have with the Portfolio class. In short, the saying “You get what you pay for” doesn’t really apply here.
Or maybe it does. Maybe I should have tried the CMU thing (assuming I would’ve been accepted, of course, which I’m not so sure about). Or maybe I should’ve gone with the Associate’s program at AiP instead of the diploma program. Sure, both of those would’ve been more than double the amount of money I already have racked up in student loans, but would I feel better and more confident about myself and my abilities?
I hate the “what ifs.”
