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Also, textbooks can be outrageously expensive, and for people like me who like to keep them, it can run into serious sums very quickly.
Name: Henry White
Age: 58
Career Interests: Business
Current Location: Florida
Advice to Online Students: "If you don't have the motivation and self-discipline to take on this enormous responsibility, forget about distance learning entirely!"
School: Western Governors University
Target: B.S. in Business Administration, 2008
One way around this is to buy used textbooks, and resell them when you are finished with them. You'll get a better resale price if they aren't marked up with highlighter and ink; use Post-itŪ notes and a conventional 3-ring binder for taking notes and keeping them organized and together.
What is worst aspect about distance learning and what advice would you give to prospective students who are considering distance education?
The worst thing about distance learning is the nasty little gremlin of isolation and loneliness, and the frustration of asynchronous communication. While you're fretting yourself into an early grave, the [individuals] who can and will be there to help you are at work, asleep or off to grandmother's house for the weekend or holiday.
Make no mistake, making it through a distance learning program to completion is going to be much, much harder on you than taking the traditional brick-and-mortar route!
You're going to have to set your own schedule and make sure that nothing interferes with your studies! Aside from the contact with your mentor every other week, there is no one to remind you - daily - that you need to work on your assignments.
If you don't have the motivation and self-discipline to take on this enormous responsibility, forget about distance learning entirely!
You'll either drop out or drive yourself a little crazy with endless last-minute marathon sessions to turn in assignments by deadline, and you'll generally have only the barest, superficial knowledge of what you could have learned had you gone at it gradually, routinely, and systematically.
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