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Is there any updated information? I have been in heavy contact with them and am looking at taking their RN-BSN program. I work with a GCU grad and she has nothing but positive things to say, but I want more opinions. ?
Any pro's and cons? Thankfully the only class I'm missing is stats and that is offered in the actual BSN program. I'm a bit nervous as my algebra skills are way old. If anyone took this class, do you have any advice?
Week 2 of Professional Dynamics has 6 reading assignments, 2 DQ's and a paper. Is this considered a typical week? Just curious what I have to look forward to!
typical is 2 DQs a week and a paper a week. The reading differs with each class and depending on the student. I cannot read everything they tell me so I go strait to where the info is that I need to complete the assignment and pick some info to cite. but that is just me.
I didn't start until *I* was ready too, which was 4-5 weeks later than they wanted me too. I think some are very anxious to get on with the program. I wanted alllll those ducks in a row. :)
I agree! I wouldn't start until all or most of my ducks were in a row. Your admitted and The school or classes are going anywhere so don't feel pressured to start like right now?. For pecks sake they have new classes starting like every 2 weeks!
They suggested for me to start 2 weeks before I wanted to but I choose a later date.
My first class is September 15th. I've gotten a call every week (1hr call) to teach me how to navigate the school website, library etc....I wish you all the best on your GCU journey.
@pinkpetunia Keep us posted as will I ?
Yes, that is pretty much the routine. Some classes have two things due in a week, such as a paper and a group project. You can pretty much guarantee a paper or some project every week on top of the reading and the DQ. The capstone was one of the busier classes because it had 1-3 things due each week.
Yes, that is pretty much the routine. Some classes have two things due in a week, such as a paper and a group project. You can pretty much guarantee a paper or some project every week on top of the reading and the DQ. The capstone was one of the busier classes because it had 1-3 things due each week.
Yikes tokmom. I'm thinking I may need to take some vacation days off from work when I make it to capstone.
Okay all you smarties out there...... I'm sending out an SOS
I'm looking for a program (preferrably free) that will make all this paper-writing easier when it comes to the misc zillions of articles I run across when I'm researching for a paper. Here's my current method (dont laugh!):
Find an article, print it (seriously, stop laughing), get out my yellow highlighter, spy the pieces I want to incorporate into my paper, highlight those, hand-write my little jotted notes in the margins, and keep all those articles in a stack on the table beside me as I'm composing. When I've used something (and properly cited it of course), I draw an X through that paragraph or sidebar note so I know I never have to look at it again. By the time I'm nearing the end of my paper, all my good highlighted stuff ought to be X'd out, right? This.is.a.ridiculous.use.of.my.time. I tried to move on from the 1980's paper-version and go electronic, but that's even more confusing to me because I end up with waaay too many tabs open (dangerous on this laptop), and plus you can only right-click-highlight one blurb at a time per website/article (and the second you click away that disappears anyway), and you can't make your own notes anywhere. Then I tried to copy/paste the article itself into a blank Word doc, where you can highlight in pretty colors, and insert your own text randomly in other color/font as my "notes to self" by using the "insert comment" feature (like the instructors use when commenting on our papers in the sidebar). This also seems like a lumbering task, moving the whole article into a new format just so I can mess with it. PLEASE SOMEONE give me a program that does this:
I find an article (web, GCU library, GoogleScholar, wherever). I send it somewhere (intact). I can manipulate the text on that document (highlight, etc), and maybe there's a sidebar where I can type notes-to-self and link it over to the highlighted part. Is this too much to ask? I tried the OneNote program that came on my computer, don't like it. I tried EverNote, not what I need.
Anybody? What do you do? How do you keep all your research articles (or snippets from the e-books) organized, and the parts within the article organized (cause you're only gonna use a sentence or two from each giant article), without killing 43 trees by printing them all out? My dining room table looks like a shred bin by Sunday night.
Ideas! Please! :vlin:
(p.s., yes I know I should have figured this out before my 8th class...)
Winterwhite28
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OH MY!!! You crack me up!!!!! I thought about doubling up after research and my husband threatened the same thing...he's like April, May, June, July...just don't do THAT to us!!!