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This is my 3rd semester here at OTC. I've been an online student since starting and plan on continuing to be an online student until I finish. Although I am currently a stay at home mom, it is just easier for me to go to school online. By now I've become comfortable with the school. And although I'm a huge procrastinator and most of the time wait until the last minute to do my school work, I've still come to be comfortable with being back in school. But at first I wasn't, I was worried that I was going to be in class (online of course) with a bunch of young fresh out of high school kids. This was not the case of course. From the discussion board I learned that very few people in my class were that young. Although I am not old (27) I still feel old sometimes, then I have people who are actually old laugh at me saying "you're too young to feel old." But in my 27 years of life, I lived through a lot. Also from the discussion I learned that almost everyone in my class are all going for different degrees. For a moment I feared I was the only one who as going into Accounting.. But I was happy to learn that there are two others. I had asked the question "if you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?" And everyone that answered all had the same answer, right here in the good ole USA. Even though I said I would like to live in Italy, I don't think I'd be happier anywhere else but here. The freedom we have here, most countries don't have the same kind. But it seems alot of our freedoms are being taken away, or being threaten to take away. Such as the "smoking ban" even though I quit smoking, I do not agree with that. Because that is violating our cival rights. If people don't want to be around smoking, there is a simple solution- don't go to those places.. Anyway getting off topic. The dicussion was a great way to find out that although we all come from different places and our lives tell different stories, the one thing that showed common for us all is that family is the most important thing in our lives.