I'm taking a certificate course online through my local state college to help bolster the resume and diversify. Yes, it's the ED course. I figured this was as good of as time as any to do it. It's online, all self-driven: the instructor gave us all the lectures and the assignments, told us we were adults so it was up to us to turn things in as we finish them, and to please not turn in everything during the last week.
Now, I decided to try something a little different. We all know how grade driven I can get...well, this course I intentionally signed up for as pass/fail. I had two reasons for doing this. First, I want to try to ease up on being grade-driven. Let's face it: an A looks good on paper but a lot of employers couldn't care less, especially now that I'm an experienced nurse. So let's focus more on the material itself than on the GPA I can get. Second, I have a lot of stuff going on in life and I want to ease the stress in whatever areas I can.
And I have learned that while I am grade-driven, it also motivates me to get stuff done.
I divvied up the assignments and set arbitrary due dates for each one. I'm already behind schedule on the first assignment. I still haven't finished the first lecture, and I haven't even touched the textbook, and we're going on what, 3 weeks now?
*sigh*
I'm going to try to regain some lost ground this weekend and get the assignment turned in on Monday. I'll push back my next assignment's due date a week, and then over the following assignments try to regain the ground I lost.
Next part of this course...I think I should take with the letter-grade option, and learn to live with not getting an A.
