The Holidays!!

Wow everyone, this has been a very stressful and busy month, well at least for me. Thanksgiving, working, cooking, cleaning and spending time with family and friends. Now Christmas is right around the corner and I found myself breaking my neck to finish all the shopping and preparing things for the big day. This year I am doing things a little different, every year I buy clothes and shoes and things the kids need and put them under the tree along with the things they want. This year I am taking a different approach and not going to worry about trying to figure out what everyone wants and decided to give each of my children an amount they have to spend on clothes and will take them shopping the day after Christmas so they can pick out exactly what they want. This will help me get the right size and will eliminate the long return line after Christmas or the unwanted clothes that sit in the closet and wasted money. I think my new plan will work out great for everyone and the children on Christmas day will only open the things they wanted instead of opening socks and underwear LOL!!

Unit 5 Halfway There!

Ok everyone at Kaplan we are almost done with class and so far so good. This week are discussing writing styles and I love the freewriting style and think that is the best thing for. I love freewriting because it gives myself time to think about my topic and put what my thoughts on paper and then I can look up facts to back up what I was thinking and write a better paper. I hope this technique allows me to be successful in my final project.

As of now I really don't have any academic challenges except to stay focused and take the time to do my work at a reasonable time. I tend to put my class work off until the last minute due to a busy lifestyle and I need to make sure that I post and do the work in a timely manner so I don't lose points. Over the months and different classes I get better and better as each term goes by and I am getting better in disciplining myself to sit, read and write.

School at this point has been a great and promising reward to me. I love that I am finally accomplishing one of my goals in life and think I have a long journey ahead of me. Learning and growing everyday is very self inspiring. I look forward to the many different experiences and things I can learn to help me be a better person.

plagiarism

Hello everyone at Kaplan! This week we learned about plagiarism, what it is, and why it is such a huge topic at Kaplan University. Plagiarism is basically taking credit for another writer's work. When writing a paper and looking up information either on the internet, books, magazines or articles, it is easy to take a portion of the sentence and incorporate it into your own writing and without citing the source this is plagiarism. There are so many plagiarism issues that are going on today and I think we should handle them as a serious manner. We all learned how important it is to cite our information and references of our work. Great week everyone and see you next week.