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I am fortunate enough to enjoy learning. I should rephrase that as: “I am fortunate enough to crave learning in order to help others.”
Being in higher education has, in my opinion, shown that there really is a need for all this debt that students rack up. I chose to post something to my blog and share it with the class to show part of my Idealist life. I leave all of my posts open to comments and choose to moderate them due to spam alone. I have deleted a couple comments these two years, not due to them disagreeing with me but due to the comment being inappropriate.
For my choice of further resources I could use to improve my grammar, I chose http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml . I found that out of all the choices, it would prove the most useful since I could easily use it with an iPhone app called gFlash+ . The best thing is that you do not need an Internet connection to use it, so you can be in the middle of nowhere (aka 2 miles out of town in WV) and take a quiz where you will not accidently see the answers. The simple format of questions and answers could be easily manipulated into the template spreadsheet using the programming language Python.
I have used gFlash+ while standing in line at the store, waiting for a customer to finish talking on the phone or while waiting for someone to give my car a jumpstart. So far, I have just used it as a quiz tool for learning new words but dailygrammar has such a common format for answers that I can program a macro to split and copy/paste entire blocks of answers.
I intend to do such a program and enlist my wife to help me, since she is starting school soon too.
You can get into Axia, otherwise known as the University of Phoenix very quick.
How quick?
They, the Enrollment Counselor at Phoenix will walk you through on the phone and tell you what to click in order to get your MPN, otherwise known as your Master Promissory Note. This MPN is what locks you into the loans you are asking for, like subsidized and unsubsidized loans. You will get immediate help and be nudged into getting it done quickly.
The University of Phoenix are a polite staff that have a deferment policy that forces you to sign a MPN with their list of Lenders. This list, if you do not choose one on it will force you to wait until fianancial aid comes to start. There are good lenders on the list, I had no problems with Wells Fargo for instance. The nudging gets _HARD_ at this point for you to sign as you are one step closer to being locked into paying loans.
Franklin.edu on the other hands forces you to take a test in order to sign the MPN. This test makes you understand all the aspects of the MPN and what you will expect in the future. Phoenix does not force you to answer questions, rather, they just ask that you agree without expecting you to show knowledge about the subject.
If you want to know what you are getting into, Franklin will test you on the subject of borrowing money. Phoenix will show you the information and quickly speak on the phone to get you started but requires no testing of the pitfalls of Stafford loans.
Franklin is looking out for you as there exists the possibility you might not understand what is going on. I must concur at this point that Phoenix, while good for some students, is interested in money first then education. I received my education the first year but can fully understand why some did not and are left with bills to pay.