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Online Learner Profiles: Carole

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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Carole, B.S. in Business

"Sometimes I think it's a bit of a competition," muses their proud mother. "My daughters keep going, so I keep going."

They did not necessarily understand Carole's choice in schools at first, she recalls.

"Online?" she says mimicking their incredulity. "They are university girls," she says by way of explanation. Now that they see the rigors of Carole's coursework, they have begun to comprehend.

"People think it's easier," she says of online learning. "But it's not."

She is accustomed to doing things in a nontraditional way. She met her first husband in Florida, and they began to travel.

"A lot of our friends were Peace Corps at the time," she recalls. They went to Costa Rica to see them. "We visited, liked it, and stayed," she says simply. She hired a manager to run the dress shop she had opened in Florida, and the "stay" ended up lasting seven years. Both of the couple's daughters were born there.

The family moved back to the States to settle in Sarasota, Florida where Carole and her husband opened a nursery. After their divorce, the young mother had two children to raise on her own. She worked and traveled and continued to take classes through it all.

Her second marriage, to an attorney, took her and her children to Mexico City where he worked for an oil company and then opened his own practice.

In the interest of her girls, she decided to leave. Their health, well-being, and education had always been her top priority.

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