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last year i went to a university, commuted because it was only about 20 minutes away but it made my anxiety so bad to the point where i was blacking out, felt like i couldnt breathe and my heart would start racing. went to the doctor; got put on medication. talked to the advisor at school, talked to my doctor, talked to my family and decided i should try online school this year. well i have started it and its great. my anxiety isnt as bad as it use to be. alot less stress. but everytime someone asks where i go to school and i say online theyre always like; "lame" or "..like thats hard" the day before my classes started i was like awh my school starts tomorrow and they were like "yeah not like its hard, its online" i feel like people look down on me and dont give me credit for what i do. its actually alot of work, you bascially teach yourself. its just annoying that people think its sooo easy. i know i shouldnt care what people think, but they think i can go hangout with friends and do what i want but its not like that at all!
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I am a great deal older than most of the advisers on this site, so my advice will be somewhat different from what you have received and may continue to receive from others.
Since I am old enough to be your Dad or Granddad I am going to give you that type of advice.
Why should you care what anyone thinks about where and how you get your education? Lame, I do not think so. If I were to interview you and one of your friends for a job, who are going to a more traditional college, with everything else being equal I would offer you the position. Why?
Going to school online tells me a lot about you and your character. The first thing I see is a self starter, someone who can be handed a project to and not have to worry about it or over supervise you to get it completed. The next thing I see is someone with the grit and determination to get the job done no matter what it takes.
In today’s overly competitive job market employers are looking for something that sets a prospective employee apart from the pack. There is no reason to tell the future employer why you chose to go to school on-line, other than this is what worked best for me.
The stress of obtaining a higher education is bad enough, add in the stress of commuting and it was more than you could handle. You made the right choice in switching to an on-line school. I do have one suggestion for you: The real world stressors can be nothing compared to the stress you have experienced to date. I would suggest you contact a good therapist to help you develop coping skills to both deal with stress as well as ways to help yourself in relieving stress related anxiety.
The best advice I can give you is this: Do not worry about what other think or do; do what is best for you.
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I totally get what your going through i did my 10th grade online and when people started finding out they always made me feel bad because i thought i was lame for doing it but then after talking to my mom i understood why people thought that basically they thought i had more advantages like getting up whenever i wanted, doing watever i wanted to do during the day, hanging out with friends and lots more but of course all of it was untrue. I know its hard to ignore comments that hurt from ppl but your going to have to because they have never done school online so they dont know how hard it is and next time someone does say something bad about doing school online tell them its not as easy as they think it is and that teaching yourself and having nobody there to ask questions to when you need help is hard and if you make a mistake on an assignment or test you can only blame yourself because you did it all by yourself and remember doing school online is nothing to feel bad about infact you should be proud because your doing something that not alot of people can do which is educating yourself without help from anyone. So screw the haters and live your life because there just jelouse they arent as smart as you. :)
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