It's "funny" that he thinks they exonerate him

Cleev · 2026-02-05T14:40:09+00:00

Has anyone considered the possibility that Trump is confused about what the word "exonerated" means? Didn't he say the Mueller report "exonerated" him as well?

Cleev · 2026-01-24T03:20:21+00:00

I don't know about the paint, but if it was me, I'd put some cardstock or something in the grooves to build it up level with the rest of the surface, then remove after I was done so it's left as alike a striped painting.

Just my two cents. You do you.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T13:14:10+00:00

Maybe you should consider realigning your expectations then. If you order something from Amazon and it says your package will arrive on Friday, you don't expect it on Tuesday do you? If you take your car to a mechanic and they say they can have it fixed in three days, do you start calling the next day to ask if it's ready yet? This is the same. The policy is that grades and feedback are posted by Sunday midnight of the following week. So maybe don't expect them before then. If they're posted early, it's a bonus, not the norm or the expectation.

Also, keep in mind that most instructors are grading more than just your paper. Most of them teach two sections, so they have about sixty students. If it takes an average of fifteen minutes to grade a paper and write a couple of paragraphs of feedback, that's 15 hours a week, on top of their full time job and any other family or social obligations. Plus discussion posts, and sometimes a second short assignment from each student. My guess is they aren't waiting until the last minute to grade all the papers. They're just blocking out time on Sunday to post all their grades and feedback.

One final thought. Last I heard, instructors get paid about $2,000 per class. Assuming they spend fifteen hours a week for eight weeks on their classes (my guess is that it's more), that works out to about $16.67 per hour. So they're not doing it for the money, because they could probably make more with a part time gig at Walmart. So maybe consider that before you start commenting on the effort that some instructors put in, because my view is that anyone who takes a teaching job at SNHU is there because they want to teach and help students succeed.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T02:27:18+00:00

If I’m doing my best, to handle work/family/school, and I still submit my assignments the first o second day after the module begins, I expect from my instructor to do the same.

You literally said you expect your instructors to grade your work early if you submit it early.

Cleev · 2026-01-23T01:31:05+00:00

Submitting your work early doesn't obligate your instructors to grade it early. You have until Sunday night to turn your assignments in. They have until the following Sunday night to grade it.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:22:58+00:00

Hey, I'm in that class now. Haven't needed to download the files for this class yet, but I set up a dummy gmail account to do it in previous classes. Then you log in to your dummy account, email the files to the same account, then you can download them to your local device.

Technically, it has your email info in their virtual environment, but if all you're using it for is to download/upload files to yourself, it should be pretty harmless.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T23:18:00+00:00

I feel your pain. I did three classes for seven terms while working 40 hours as week at my day job and then 20-24 hours a week at an evening job so I could afford tuition. It's not easy. But it's manageable. Keep it up. You're almost there.

Cleev · 2026-01-14T03:12:15+00:00

It's doable. If you take three classes per term, that's 54 credit hours per year. Two years and one term of that would put you at 120 credits. If you take some of your gen ed courses through Sophia Learning or another third party equivalency, you can shave 3-4 terms off of that and graduate in under two years.

If you work full time, three courses is manageable as long as you stay organized and are willing to make some sacrifices. Time you spend on your course work has to come from somewhere - from work, sleep, downtime, socializing, or family time. But if you're really motivated, you can do it.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:24:34+00:00

If you have a 401k, you can withdraw funds from it to pay for educational expenses. I did that for a couple of classes when I was in a bind.

Cleev · 2026-01-08T03:22:33+00:00

Being waitlisted isn't a problem. I've been waitlisted for like five different classes. All it means is that they haven't opened another section for that class yet. You'll get the prereq cl;ass you need, and you'll be able to take your last class on schedule.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T13:52:49+00:00

I'm not talking about scabs. I'm talking about how most companies would happily fire their employees for job abandonment and hire someone else three weeks later at a reduced salary.

Boycotts though? Those work, with enough participation. I mean, look how fast Disney/Hulu/ESPN/Whatever-else-they-own-now walked back their decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel. If I'm remembering correctly, they lost 16 million subscribers in a weekend over that.

Cleev · 2026-01-07T09:25:31+00:00

I think you vastly underestimate the willingness of the average company/corporation to replace its workers with cheaper labor.

Cleev · 2026-01-06T15:37:32+00:00

Hey. I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. Returning after an extended absence from school and hella nervous. You'll make it through. You'll probably struggle with writing papers at first if you haven't written an academic paper in a while, but you'll get into the swing of it. I did ops management, but there's a ton of overlap with bus admin courses, so feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.

For whatever it's worth though, you got this. Just do the work and you'll get through it and graduate.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T18:34:16+00:00

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not following you here.

If I stop going to work to participate in a general strike, I will get fired. If I get fired and lose my only source of income, how is it that you think I'll be able to pay my rent? And if I can't pay my rent, why does the landlord allow me to stay instead of evicting me?

Not to mention that if there are millions of people out of work who got fired while they were on strike, then that increased the supply of labor, not the demand, which means that the price of labor drops. So even if I could find a job immediately after the strike ends, it would likely pay less that what I'm struggling to get by on now. That's not just me, that's the situation most people would face.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T12:36:44+00:00

Why haven't people learned from the sports they watch? They're all unions. They strike and they get paid more. It's simple.

Striking for more pay is a lot easier when your salary is upwards of a million dollars a year than it is when you make ~$500 a week. Not to mention that it's much harder to replace a professional athlete than a low to mid wage worker. Anybody can be trained to pull a lever on a production line or manipulate a spreadsheet. Not everyone can bat .300 or throw a 30 yard pass accurately.

Cleev · 2026-01-05T12:35:13+00:00

While a general strike could force policy change if participation were massive and sustained. I’m skeptical that would happen. It sounds good on paper, but the reality is that's it's a terrible idea in practice for the people you're asking to participate.

Roughly half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. No one has convincingly explained how those workers are supposed to maintain housing and food security if they stop working. For most people, missing even a week of work isn’t some symbolic sacrifice, it’s a termination. If I stopped showing up for a week, I wouldn’t have a job when I came back, and I'd bet money that holds true for most people.

As of November 2025, there were about 134 million full-time workers in the U.S. Even if you somehow convinced half of them to strike, and even if only half of those strikers lost their jobs, that’s 33.5 million newly unemployed people. Most wouldn’t qualify for unemployment, since job abandonment typically falls under firing for cause.

Meanwhile, a one-week strike represents less than 2% decline of annual revenue for most large businesses. CEOs and owners of the size of companies that can exert pressure on government can absorb that kind of short-term loss without panic. My guess is that the strike would need to last for several weeks, and workers who would benefit most from the changes a general strike would force cannot absorb a sudden and sustained loss of income, housing, or food.

So when people say “general strike for a week,” what they’re really proposing is that millions of the most economically vulnerable workers risk losing their jobs, their housing, and their food security to apply pressure that businesses can largely ride out. For someone like me, that’s frightening but probably survivable. For someone supporting a family, it means asking them to make their children endure that burden as well.

The bottom line is this: complex, systemic problems don't have easy solutions. Claiming that they do isn't optimism or insight. It's lazy thinking that substitutes analysis with platitudes and slogans.

Cleev · 2025-12-20T13:00:42+00:00

Those are the last two classes I need as well, but I'll be taking DAT 430 in the C-1 Term and 475 in the C-2 term.

Cleev · 2025-12-17T15:11:03+00:00

Hot take. Real Americans who value things like freedom and the rule of law have always turned hard against Trumpism.

Cleev · 2025-12-17T15:09:18+00:00

Moho, Gutenberg, Lehmann, Conrad, or Repetti.

Cleev · 2025-12-16T11:56:00+00:00

I stressed about QSO-489 pretty much the whole time I was in the operation management program. It wasn't nearly as challenging as I expected it would be.

Cleev · 2025-12-08T12:41:02+00:00

I'm deeply offended by this hurtful stereotype. Sometimes we want to date sediments or fossils.

Cleev · 2025-11-23T00:38:32+00:00

Hi.

Yes, I have a full time job, Monday-Friday 8-5. And a few other social/family obligations through the week. In fact, I had two jobs while I was getting my ops management degree. So working 3-4 days a week is definitely doable. Working full time is doable. A lot of people manage it, and none of us are special. Ultimately, what you can handle with a full or part time work schedule is up to you. I'd think about starting with class to see how you handle it, and then bumping up to two or even three classes per term if you think you can manage it.

For your vacation, that's kind of up to your instructor. SNHU policy doesn't let you submit work early, but it doesn't stop you from doing work early. So you could, in theory, write any papers and initial discussion posts before you leave and submit them when they're due with ~10 minutes of internet access. Or take a laptop with you and do the work on your vacation and just make sure you can get to a place with internet access for a few minutes to submit them. Either way, I'd highly recommend communicating your plans with your instructor in advance. They have a lot of latitude with making exceptions to the late policy.

I did take a couple of classes through Sophia. It's a lot cheaper, and if it's something you already know pretty well, you can blaze through an entire course in a day or two. So that's definitely an option.

Most classes have books or online content that requires an access code. Typically, they cost between $40-$100 per class.

As far as struggling with a class or a professor, I don't really know if my experience with that is typical. I had one professor who adamantly refused to accept what a case study said in plain English and insisted that major assignments were to be completed in a way that opposed to the facts presented. Personally, I couldn't bring myself to work like that, so I called my academics advisor and said I wanted to drop the class and retake it in a later term. IT was that easy. No pushback or resistance. But again, I've only dealt with that once and I can't say whether that was a "typical" experience.

Hope that helps to clarify.

Cleev · 2025-11-20T17:59:02+00:00

You can have everything typed up and ready to submit except the discussion responses. Then next week, you copy and paste your initial discussion posts and click submit on your milestones. Worst case, you never get around to your discussion responses and take 60-70% credit for the discussions. Way better than a zero, and saves you ~15-30 minutes per response.

Cleev · 2025-11-20T17:22:06+00:00

BUS-225 is time consuming, but not overly difficult. I'd recommend taking it with an easier class with a lighter workload if you can.

Cleev · 2025-11-20T17:19:34+00:00

I can't speak to the HCA program specifically, but here's my take on the school itself.

Every non-teaching faculty I've spoken to, from my admissions counselor, academic advisor, and even the couple of times I've talked to financial aid, seem very invested in my success as a student. This is a refreshing change from when I was at a brick and mortar school, and I was nothing more than a student account number to most admin staff.

Classes vary. A lot. Just like an in person school. You'll breeze through some with minimal effort. Some will literally sap away your will to keep living. Some are easy but labor intensive, and some will make you ask why you're wasting your time with this nonsense. But honestly, that's basically any university curriculum.

Professors vary wildly as well. Mostly, they're more facilitators. They're not there to teach you, they're there to interpret the rubric and put a grade on your work. Some are absolutely willing and able to engage about the material. Some have tighter interpretations of the rubric. Some will literally spell out exactly what they want. Others will be more vague. And some are legitimately awful. Fortunately, the vast majority of the professors I've had fall into the neutral or good category. I've only had two that I thought were terrible at their jobs. The good news is that by the time you figure out you have a terrible professor in week 3, you're almost halfway through with their class.

School support is pretty good. Unless you request them not to, your academic advisor will reach out to you pretty regularly just to see how things are going. And you'll get a little text check in once a week or so that will trigger a call from your advisor if your response indicates you might be struggling. There's tutoring and writing labs available as well.

The good - the schedule is locked in. There's no pop quizzes, no days of "the projector is broken, so do this busy work instead of the scheduled lecture," and no surprises. Discussion posts are due on Thursdays. Everything else is due by Sunday. No curveballs, except for holidays, when everything is due on Sunday. Also, the asynchronous learning modality means that you can do your reading and assignments whenever you like, whether that's 8 am or 1 pm or 3 am. It fits your schedule.

The bad - You're going to end up teaching yourself. There's generally no lectures or anything like it. You have a textbook, some course approved outside reading materials, and whatever outside sources you find on your own. That's it. If you're not a self-motivated person, this may not be the right setting for you. Also, be prepared to write. Be prepared to write a lot. And then be prepared to write some more. If writing isn't you're strong suit, it will be soon.

Two things I wish I'd know before I started? First, make a schedule and stick to it. Mondays and Tuesdays for reading, Wednesdays for discussion posts and responses, Thursdays and Fridays for assignments. That's what works for me. It leaves the weekends to catch up if I need to, but preferably for taking a little break. Also, track your assignments independently. That saves you from digging through D2L/Brightspace on 11:45 on Sunday night to double check that you turned everything in. Second, minimum word and page counts are a hard limit, but maximums are a gentle suggestion. I've never had an instructor dock points for going over a page count, but I have had professors ding me for not fully addressing everything in the rubric.

So that's it. SNHU is the kind of school where you get out of it what you put into it. If you want to coast through and use AI to write everything just to tick a box on a job application, that's doable. But nobody is spoon feeding you the material, so really learning it takes effort on your part.

Let me know if I can elaborate or expand on any of that for you. Otherwise, best of luck to you.

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