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Online learning is a great way to take your education to the next step. For one writer, he's putting his words into educational action.
Name: Harry Husted
Age: 49
Career Interests: Writing
Current Location: Bronx, NY
Advice to Online Students: "You have to be careful [how] you express yourself online because the comments you leave are recorded and displayed for a long time."
School: Ellis College
Target: B.A. in English/Professional Writing, 2008
He may not be the next Stephen King (yet!), but this adult student hopes that an online degree will help him to advance his literary career.
Though Harry Husted, 49, had an associate's degree, it wasn't until March 2006 that he decided to bite the bullet and enroll at Ellis College of New York Institute of Technology, located in Westbury, New York. He's working towards his B.A. in English, majoring in professional writing. The Bronx resident is expected to graduate in June 2008.
"From the time I was in my 20s till today, I always wanted to get my bachelor's degree. Now I strongly believe I am living my dreams by getting the degree I always wanted and am now achieving. Studying online helped me do it," says Harry, who plans on getting his next degree via distance learning.
Currently a writer involved in a myriad of projects including ghostwriting, copywriting, and article writing, Harry says he notices a lot of jobs that require a bachelor's degree, which is why he realized he needed one, too.
"This is one of the incentives I realized is important to getting my degree," he says.
We talked to Harry about life as a writer, and how it is to take your current degree a step further with distance learning.
What has been the most difficult thing for you about distance learning?
The hardest thing about distance learning I found was being able to log in to my classroom without the school's computer crashing, thereby knocking me out of my classroom.
This is especially hard when you have an assignment that is due at the last minute and you are making an effort to log in so you can upload your assignment. Then either you or the school develops hardware problems.
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