Online Student

Hello everyone!
I don't know about the rest of you but I love taking my classes online. I feel that I am allowed to learn at my own pace and spend as much time as I need on any particular subject. I was very nervous when I first started because I wasn't sure how the classes would work, or how everything could be completed in just 10 weeks. In my first term, while taking Academic Strategies for the Health Care Profession, I discovered that I am mostly a visual learner. Online classes cater to my learning style!
I am happy to say that so far I am a straight A student! I think it would have been more difficult for me to learn in a traditional environment. I find that I am very easily distracted when surrounded by people, and with a class full of them, there are plenty of distractions.
I think my success thus far also has to do with being 'ready'. My first time through college I was younger and hadn't thought very much about the classes I was taking, or where my life was going. One day I woke up with the thought, "After graduation I will wake up every day and have to do this". I panicked and decided I would take a year off to just work and think about what I wanted to do. One year turned into two, then three... I think you know where I'm going with this. :) When I was finally ready to go back to school I was receiving a lot of e-mails about online learning and figured I would give it shot. I did some research and decided Kaplan was the way to go. It has been a wonderful experience so far.
One thing I really like and would like to see in more classes are the flex seminars. Basically there are two or three seminars a week at different times, and you are able to pick which one fits into your schedule. One week you could go on Wednesday at 7pm, and the next you could go on Friday at 1pm. Of course there are multiple instructors, and a lot of students, so I imagine those are only available in the more general type of classes.
Yay for online students!