This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Regent chapter.
Let’s face it: online classes are great, until you have to write a 500 word discussion post every week. Here are the weekly stages of discussion board writing, as portrayed by “Criminal Minds”.
- Week One: You start the semester strong, using perfect citations, flawless grammar and a detailed analysis of the topic.
- Week Two: Everyone in your class was on top of things this week, so now you’re stuck replying to approximately 27 responses to your post.
- Week Three: You’re pretty sure that skimming the Wikipedia synopsis of your topic qualifies as research.
- Week Four: You’re trying to get back on track after falling behind in week three, but the online distractions are real.
- Week Five: You check your grade in Blackboard, and you realize you really, truly need to catch up, but there are seven reading assignments this week and there just isn’t time.
- Week Six: If it’s a regular online class, you just want it finished. If it’s a required religious gen-ed, you’re ready to strangle whoever mandated 500 word posts on “Goodness” or “Truth”.
- Week Seven: No one writes anything until 11:45 on Saturday night, so you scramble to write two 200-word replies in 15 minutes.
- Week Eight: Thanks to your online class, you now have midterms AND finals, so you “fake it till you make it” on the final discussion post.