Online school sucks

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It's not for everyone.

It's worlds better for me personally. Sitting in classes that are tailored at the pace of the slowest participants in the group was agonizing for me. Self-paced is perfect for me, speeding through what I already know or pick up fast, slowing down on my own personal problem areas. No suffering through inane questions from classmates or doing the work of a whole group in a worthless group project scenario.

I've also found many online courses more challenging than community college courses, and they should be. Community colleges are a bit of a joke sometimes, just extended high school. That said, I've also taken online courses I could have passed sleeping. There's going to be variations everywhere. I've had great community courses and professors as well, but they were further in between in my experience.

I grew up on computers and still do a great deal of socializing online (on here for example -- though I am involved in many more personal communities as well), so I'm use to online interaction. And I have a job where I see people face to face and work with friends, and I have a pretty normal family and social life as well. I don't need to hang out with 20-somethings on a campus.

But like I said, it's not for everyone. Everyone has to figure out their own path. Obviously most of us here will be bias as far what we think the best path is, but that is only applicable to ourselves.