Believe it or not but finishing up SOC 110 hasn't been easy

I'm probably going to say this a lot on this blog so maybe I need to make a macro key in Microsoft Word or something but anyway, finishing up my current class hasn't been as easy as I thought.

These classes are going to get tougher and these work skill classes aren't the easiest things either. However they are definitely life skills that I am glad I've taking right now. As a matter of fact this class and probably the next two or three are classes every employer should be giving their employees as orientation.

I'm not hyping up what's going on at UofP Online but let me say that if you don't think you need to be able to be a mediator and/or a negotiator at work, you have another thing coming. The class that I am finishing up is all about those types of techniques and I'm going to tell you, the "it" works in real life.

Now I'm not saying girls take this course, pick a fight with your man and see if you can win the fight because that's not what this is about. What it is about is being able to steer a small group clear of controversy and put them on the same track if need be. It's about being able to have creative thinkers instead of 'sheep' when getting projects done.

As good as this experience has been, let me say that this hasn't been an easy course over the past five weeks. One weekend I decided to just kind of take off and it hurt my grade average tremendously. Yeah I was actually mentally drained. I didn't pace myself properly. Right now I am pretty sure that I have dropped about .60 on the GPA meter. That's a "B" folks in case you don't know.

From an "A+" to a "B" is a big drop but you know what, that's my fault and mine alone. I allowed myself to be distracted with junk and I didn't focus when I was supposed to.

That may happen from time to time. Heck I hope it doesn't happen when I get ready to take my math classes. I hate math and math hates me. But I know I'm going to have to bone up on it and be prepared around Thanksgiving time.

That's why it's important for me to finish up with this class (and all my other classes in the future) on a strong note. Its why I need to make sure that I don't take a whole weekend off like I did back in wee three of this course. That just wasn't good.

So this weekend what I plan on doing is actually finishing up all of the individual assignments by today and just have the team assignment to do on Sunday. Nothing major but I don't want to spend my Sunday writing a 1,050 job proposal for class either.

So learning how to finish strong is a technique that I just have to add to the repertoire. Good enough.

My next course is COM/105, Communication Skills for Career Growth. I'll blog about that experience next week.

Until then, stay tuned…..