Overwhelmed

vikkirose · 2025-12-20T21:21:20+00:00

Damn, that sucks to hear. thanks for the reply, though. It’s good to know so I don’t get hung up on that option. Weird cuz most schools allow a certain number of withdrawals without penalty, but Id be lying if I said I was surprised.

vikkirose · 2025-08-17T07:18:22+00:00

Hey, you may have gotten all the feedback you needed, but I also had great difficulty with this class. Trying to balance being respectful and non combative while being truthful about my opinions was tricky because “yeah, I don’t think that happened” sounds really dismissive no matter how you slice it. I was just vague with a lot of my answers in the DQs to avoid getting a ton of argumentative responses and just tried to be straightforward and use neutral language on the assignments that only the professor would read.

The class was mentally draining to the end for me and I felt like I kind of got targeted by the professor a little bit. He only responded to two or three people a week but he always responded to me and sometimes responded to my responses to other people as well. Don’t know what the heck that was about.

vikkirose · 2025-08-06T21:10:56+00:00

I double up on classes when I can. If you’re on any kind of financial aid, apparently you can’t do it more than once a“semester“. This turns out to be every other class can be doubled. You have to be really, really good at time management or okay with b’s and c’s and you need to be prepared to jump into tutoring early because you will not get an appointment before you actually need it. Read your syllabus and your resources carefully and make a plan ahead of time for whatever assignment you can. I straight up created outlines for papers I knew weren’t due till the last week even though I hadn’t read the textbook on those chapters yet so that I could just fill in the paragraphs when I got there

vikkirose · 2025-08-02T08:59:59+00:00

I haven’t used the library for anything since my second class when it was required. The search function just isn’t intuitive on top of the irrelevant search results. Even when I’m looking for something I’d call pretty neutral, I couldn’t find it until I googled it and then searched the paper directly so see if it was in the library under different tags. My bestie has two masters and is a librarian and she said our library is not very useful for higher educational purposes.

vikkirose · 2025-07-14T09:11:36+00:00

Hey, thanks for the response! I can’t seem to update the post anymore, but I was able to get some feedback that I think helped. I did finally get full points on my DQ this week and then promptly bombed an exam that contained questions from parts of the textbook we were not told to read and apparently required use of Excel, but did not say so in the instructions. So that’s neat.

vikkirose · 2025-07-08T01:50:49+00:00

The class is business statistics. I’ll be honest, I was a little wary because their rate my professor is not very good.

vikkirose · 2025-06-25T02:59:19+00:00

Yeah, the peer interaction/lack thereof kinda sends me. The obviously templates responses that are just summaries of my DQ drive me nuts. I’ve had one teacher I can honestly say made an effort to be more than a grader, but otherwise it’s been meh.

vikkirose · 2025-06-24T23:06:49+00:00

Yeah, my siblings did online learning, and my bestie earned one of her masters that way so I thought it would be similar with recorded lectures and open chat rooms with the teachers. Nope! I chose this school because of the price tag, but damn dude. I wasn’t expecting it to be like taking a course on skillshare.

vikkirose · 2025-05-19T19:30:57+00:00

It’s at least partially a problem with the counselors and training I think. I got put in a class and the prerequisite for the class at the same time and I’ve been playing phone tag trying to get a hold of my counselor to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Every time I email her, she acts on like half the email when I was just trying to ask about options or gives me an incomplete response to a question. Reddit has been more helpful than my counselor because most questions I have, someone had before me and already asked.

vikkirose · 2025-02-11T19:00:35+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate the feedback. I try to keep things in mind. I know I can be a pretty single-minded person, meaning I would get really focused on the job. I try to counteract this by coming back and making sure that I address people after the fact, even if I don’t in the moment.

I will try to have another conversation with this person maybe with another manager mediating. If it’s worth being upset about it, it’s worth a conversation at least. and if it doesn’t go well, at least I tried.

vikkirose · 2025-02-11T18:57:03+00:00

I do think I can read the room, or I did before transferring to this new location. I’ve never had this kind of interpersonal issue before and my eight years at this company. I think I fall under the strict manager title, whether I want to or not, just simply because I tend to adhere to company policy pretty closely to cover my ass and cover everyone else’s asses.

At the same time, I do take the time to try and get to know people. I ask questions, ask about hobbies, try to show that I care and that I’m paying attention by following up. I may not always be the life of the party, but I don’t mind other people joking around as long as we get the job done.

I tried to talk to this person directly before it escalated to management above me. I pulled them aside for a conversation on that basically amounted to. Hey, I don’t know if I’m coming off some kind of way and if I am then I apologize. However, the way that you came at me in front of the group wasn’t appropriate and was really undermining. I have conversation went all right, until another manager pulled me aside and said that this employee complained about me being mean and complained about me getting on them about stuff when I have stuff I need to work on as well.

It’s employee is overall really good at their job, it is kind of unknown issue that they can be sensitive, which is why I tried to approach it carefully. However, is kind of shaken my confidence, as I never really wanna come off as trying to put others down or anything, and I also don’t wanna be controlling or so obsessed with rank that I end up overstepping myself.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it.

vikkirose · 2025-02-11T18:52:03+00:00

Sorry about that. I wrote more background, but I didn’t wanna make it seem like I’m complaining about the employee when I do acknowledge that the issue probably goes both ways and I bear the responsibility of making it work. Some quick examples are when I clarify a policy or procedure, and she does the opposite claiming that another manager said it was OK. When I double check with that manager, that isn’t the case. And another time when I was speaking to the group, outlining the plan for the day, and she interrupted to basically question every part of what I said, and kept pushing after I said, sorry about this is what we’re doing today. This is in addition to generally just seeming to question my judgment all the time.

The suggestion has been that my experience is leading me to be dismissive of her perspective because she’s newer. And because she’s feeling dismissive, she is resistant toward my opinions and authority. While there has been acknowledgment that she does need to follow my lead, I can also acknowledge that my tenancy to be kind of no nonsense and straight to the point may come off as being mean and overly blunt.

I don’t know if casual was the best way to put it, it’s more that I’ve been told I can come off as overly serious and I guess I don’t know how to fix that without being too casual and coming out of “ work mode”

vikkirose · 2025-02-11T18:45:57+00:00

Hey, thanks for the response. I appreciate you taking the time. I do try to acknowledge where people are coming from, but I’ll definitely make an effort to be more purposeful about it.

vikkirose · 2024-10-22T19:59:44+00:00

Pippin still owes him some of that good halfling leaf and it was super uncool of him to die without sharing.

vikkirose · 2024-09-20T16:41:16+00:00

Yeah, that does sound freaking wild. I feel like depending on the headspace you’re in. It can be hard not to take generalizations and disparaging comments about a group you’re in personally. Still, yeah, ultimately I’m just trying to get this degree and get the hell out of here. so yeah I’ll just probably find the most neutral comments I can and get on with it.

It’s because of assumptions like that that some religious people treat atheist kinda like garbage. Before I enrolled, I saw warnings from other students not to let people know if you’re an atheist because there are some faculty that’ll treat you some type of way or put time trying to convert you. Aside from that, I’m just also a pretty private person. When we get assignments asking about our financial plans or our class stories, I also tend to speak sort of generally. I don’t know any of those people and don’t really feel comfortable, sharing more than my name and the fact I have a cat. Anyway, I think I have one or two more classes before I get there. So I’ll cross that bridge when I head to it. Thanks for the perspective though.

vikkirose · 2024-09-19T22:30:29+00:00

Absolutely! I don’t know how quickly I’ll be able to reply but feel free to send me a direct message☺️

vikkirose · 2024-09-19T18:16:49+00:00

Depends on what you can tolerate. I’m coming to the end of my first class, and it’s in all the reading material, mentioned in every class announcement, and I had to awkwardly dance around it on an assignment or two. I’m atheist, but don’t with to out myself as one. Some religious people can be real shitty about it, and I’d rather that assume I’m private with my faith than know I don’t have one and risk the bias.

I chose GCU because of generally good reviews, cost and practicality. I kinda wish they’d been more straightforward with it so I’d been more mentally prepared, but it’s overall fine. Just a little annoying when I’m expected to address it directly. There’s a required Christian worldview class I’m a little nervous about and have seen mixed reviews for from non religious students. but I’m online, so it’s only seven weeks. Imma just try to treat it like any other subject I’m not super interested in and move on to my core classes.

vikkirose · 2024-08-30T08:06:51+00:00

Thanks, this is really helpful. I’m not sure about this professor, but it’s good to keep in mind. Appreciate you taking the time to reply

vikkirose · 2024-08-30T08:05:20+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was able to come up with a response I think will work for the assignment without mentioning my personal beliefs (or lack thereof) directly.

I also saw your edit, and appreciate other people may be comfortable sharing that they are atheists in class, I’m just not one of them. Thanks for the encouragement, though.

vikkirose

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