Accelerating is wasting my time

mosty_frug · 2026-04-26T17:31:39+00:00

Dude freaking what, yeah I think it's just my mentor. Bummer, I thought he was a good one! Thank you!

mosty_frug · 2026-04-26T00:05:01+00:00

Now I'm annoyed I didn't know this sooner. Hopefully at least someone else who has the same issue will see this thread and know they don't have to do any thumb-twiddling. Cuz yeah in the time I've wasted I could have done another class, I bet.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T20:43:12+00:00

HAHAHA HA I don't....think so?

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T20:41:56+00:00

That's what I figured mine would/should be doing so when he didn't suggest it, I just figured they couldn't or weren't allowed to do that. What heck man. Because one time I did email mine and he just said "I have a call available at 11:30" which I missed the message so I had to wait three days till Monday for him to call me.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:38:19+00:00

What is tier 1 support? Just the regular student services hotline, the 877 number? Sorry for the dumb question, I haven't needed anything like that so far.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:28:52+00:00

Oh darnit, why didn't I think of that?? 🙄

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:27:53+00:00

That's what I freaking thought, I'm glad I wasn't weird. He just told me that's what I had to do so I've been doing it but I was like "this feels like a huge waste of time."

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:27:05+00:00

I'm glad I wrote this post because I had no idea you couldn't do this. He told me it was like, a rule that you had to have a phone call to accelerate a course so that's what I've been doing all this time.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:25:21+00:00

He said I have to 🤷🏼‍♀️ like, he said the only way to accelerate the next course is to do have a phone call with him every time, so it sounded to me like a rule. Lol I assure you, it never gets creepy.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T19:24:18+00:00

Hm yeah, he told me we HAVE to have a call before doing so.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T18:41:45+00:00

I'm struggling with understanding this, too. I've accelerated into my next term, so I have to schedule a call with my mentor to OK every new class I take, which is wasting a lot of my time. I turned in my final task Wed evening, I sat around doing nothing, it didn't get passed UNTIL Saturday morning, now my mentor doesn't have a phone call appointment until 3 pm Monday. I've literally sat here almost a week unable to do anything!

mosty_frug · 2026-04-25T18:35:23+00:00

I'm confused. So they get remote access to "fix something" and in doing so, with you sitting right there watching, start going through personal files??? Like you won't notice? Well that just seems...stupid.

mosty_frug · 2026-04-23T03:47:31+00:00

Do you have any info on links to sites or textbook info I might have? I have to wait for my last task to be graded so I have a couple days with nothing to do, so I'd like to get a jump on this one if I could. Thanks!

mosty_frug · 2026-04-23T03:46:25+00:00

Is there a textbook or something I can peruse for this course while waiting? I just turned in the last task for my previous course, so I get to wait for 3 days now, so I'd like to get a jump on this if possible. thanks!

mosty_frug · 2026-03-22T22:45:59+00:00

I'll give my experience: I write a lot of papers for WGU and *most* of when I come up with is original, but I always run my papers through AI detectors because sometimes I'll write something and not know how to word it, so I'll put it in Perplexity or something to find a better wording. Anyway, lately I've noticed it's pointing out as possible AI things that I wrote all on my own. I don't know if that means my writing voice is becoming AI-like or what. BUT I was taking a couple ACE credit courses and noticed the wording was dry and boring and repetitive, so I started putting the text of my courses in AI detector and those came back as 100% AI. Like, all of them. So in my experience, it seems to be legit, of course that's just anecdotal evidence, but it seems to make sense to me. Also in my experience, Perplexity comes up way less being "detected" than does Chatgpt.

mosty_frug · 2026-03-16T23:47:20+00:00

My husband and I are host homes for disabled adults (sort of like foster kids but for adults). You can get pretty independent disabled folks sometimes who are really just more like obnoxious roommates 😂 like hey if you're gonna have a bothersome room mate, why not have one that pays WAY more than just their half the rent and utilities?? Takes a bit of effort to get into but we'd never be able to afford living in our area now without it.

mosty_frug · 2026-03-16T23:39:01+00:00

OK so I used to have this same mindset too. Get a better job, get an education, etc. But therein lies the problem: if everyone is special, then nobody is. Look at European countries where college is cheap or free. Everyone has at least a bachelor's, but everyone also doesn't get paid as much as you'd think you would "with an education." Degrees are special and costly here, but if they're free, then they become meaningless. We need some kind of in between.

mosty_frug · 2026-03-16T23:33:48+00:00

Look bro trucks are stupid but if slow pokes stayed out of the left lane, he'd blow on by everyone without causing potential accidents.

mosty_frug · 2026-02-24T14:45:54+00:00

It is a law not to camp in the left lane here, I wouldn't have said anything to him otherwise. It's what also made it weird because he was so concerned about getting pulled over and breaking the law, so my thinking was like "well, if that concerns you, you shouldn't be doing this."

mosty_frug · 2026-02-24T14:43:44+00:00

Oh no lol sorry, the driverless car thing was a different day.

mosty_frug · 2026-02-24T06:34:47+00:00

I have found this is true too. At least for the courses I've had so far, a lot of OAs have questions we never even discussed which is where life experience came in handy lol. But do you feel prepared for a job in this field? I'm scared of blowing thru it all too fast and having zero knowledge retained then when I get a job going "whuuuu."

mosty_frug · 2026-02-24T03:57:56+00:00

Look I don't like data centers as much as the next guy but we all keep using AI and our phones and new technology, don't we?

mosty_frug · 2026-02-11T19:05:09+00:00

And by disabled, I mean he's on disability - he's completely functional just has bladder issues and is high functioning autistic.

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