I had a medical procedure last week that left me in enough pain that I’ve done almost no school work for the last seven days. Let’s add medical issues to the list of items that can slow you down during a degree program. However, I’m confident in my abilities in the current course, C214 Financial Management. Considering that’s my current job, I should be well-prepared for the course. Once my health is up to concentrating on a pre-test I will take it to see where I stand and the type of study I may need to supplement to pass the course. I’m hoping my results will be similar to those in the Accounting course.
I received an email yesterday on my phone in my student account. Considering I’ve done zero school work recently I didn’t know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised to find the following.
I’ve received an award for a paper I wrote. I’ll add this to my resume for sure. This is an interesting turn of events. Had I known I was putting far more effort into an assignment than was expected I probably would have written less. It was an eleven page paper in APA format that I spent less than 7 hours working on. Even more interesting is that I thought I was merely fulfilling the requirements given in the task assignment. I know the course was recently redesigned which makes me wonder whether the grader has only seen a few other submissions for comparison. It would not be in the interest of WGU to hand out awards for underserving submissions. On the other hand, lacking the ability to connect one student to the next due to the anonymity of online education, it may not hurt them to hand out awards. If students take all these good feelings and promote WGU that only helps promote their brand to others looking to enroll. Because I’m the recipient of an award I must dismiss such cynical views and advocate that I assuredly deserved this based on the merit of my work. While Ethical Leadership caused me great frustration due to the presentation of the material, I’ll happily take a resume boost from it.