Graduate Student Blog October Archive

Going the distance to learn

10/30/10 04:36

I never really experienced distance learning in the sense that I never had to travel very far just to get to my school when I was still a student. For this, I will forever consider myself lucky.

I know a lot of students who had to hike for hours in the wee hours of the morning just to get to school on time. They travel the same distance to get home.

There are also a lot who had to work part-time just to earn enough money to be able to enrol in night-class.

We all have our own roads to choose. Still, it's not the distance that we've travelled which matters but the friends we have made and the things we learned along the way.

Link: How Far Do You Travel To Your Distance Learning Doctora

Tags: distance learning • hiking to school • night class • school of life •
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ESL Distance Learning

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Link: What is On-Campus Residency?; On-Campus Residency

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Link: What accreditation is adequate for a distance learning