5 Things: University of Phoenix

Alright Kiddo's time for me to make a confession. If you didn't know before than you will now. I attend the University of Phoenix. Yup that for profit school that leaves you tens of thousands of dollars in debt before you actually get your degree. I thought that since I am making it back into the classroom after a month of being off, I would let you know 5 things about the famous ol' UofP that you need to know before signing up.

1.) Classes are 5 weeks long. Yes that means  that you are done with classes earlier, but it also means that you are cramming a semesters worth of work in 5 weeks. There are classes like math that seriously need more time. And they are back to back, which means the only break from classed that you get is if a holiday falls on the same day as your class. Each class is also 4 hours long. This is nice when you have a full time job, but not when you have a monotone or indian instructor. 

2.) Be prepared to take classes that are literally pointless. I have literally taken 6 classes that revolve around how to think critically. 1/2 of my credits from Community College, including my A+'s in psychology, sociology, and english did not transfer. So I had to take those classes over again.

3.) Most of your instructors are going to be foreign or older than dirt. Rarely have I had an instructor who was under the age of 60 and only once has one been in his thirties. And they really do not make that much. Take your tuition for one class, knock off about $100 and that is what they make per class. The rest of  the classes tuition is naturally going back to the pockets of UofP.

4.) Online and Ground classes are different. And even different ground campuses are different. Online be prepared for a lot of self instruction, discussions, and notifications. I literally had 150+ new notifications every day with online. There is also a lot more work, because you are not able to discuss it in person with the teacher and your groups. On campus there less requirements for the assignments. Instructors are given a little bit of freedom, but not too many. And there are differences between different campuses. My moms campus in TX is leniant on the rules of the classroom but they refuse to make changes to the syllabus. Where as mine in AZ, the instructors change the syllabus on a weekly basis.  

5.) You are going to work in a team. It is required. And if you know anything about computers or how to write a paper, consider yourself the smartest in the bunch. There have been teams that I have literally carried because they didn't know how to format the paper, let alone use spell check. You are going to run into this problem a lot during your first year or two, until those who cannot keep up are gone.

Anyone else go to University of Phoenix? Or am I the only sad sucker here?