In college I took a class on world religions for which I had to write several papers. I always was looking for the angle no one else would write about. So I wrote about ancient mummification rites and modern death practices. I explored the shades of meaning in “sacred” dance.

When I came across an obscure reference to Islamic occult practices, I was amazed at the amount of information available in a small Ohio college on magick talismans, magick amulets & charms and magick spells & rituals. Then I discovered a tribe in Africa that ritually ate the brains of their dead, and thereby passed on a highly infectious fatal disease called kuru. It’s related to mad cow disease and after writing this paper, it put me off beef for a long time.

My professor’s favorite, however, was about the spread of Pentecostalism in Puerto Rico and why it was eclipsing Catholicism. But then my professor was half Puerto Rican, which just goes to show his personal biases did matter, no matter what he, well, “professed.”

When I was in high school I remember writing a big essay about dinosaurs.  I did not realize how handy the information would be one day.  Ironically, he came in most handy in my job as a mother.  I have a little boy who loves everything about dinosaurs and probably knows more than I do, but at least I still have some knowledge left from the essay I wrote in high school.

A few years ago when I was working on my dissertation, I drew from the work I had done in high school, as that is when I first realized what I wanted to study when I went to college.  To this day I think I made the right choice.

It has been very interesting working on a thesis and being a mother at the same time.  I think that it has been interesting for my son as well.  He has his own little desk in my office where he is apparently working on his thesis as well.

I have never written an arts essay that I was not completely satisfied with the results when I was through with it.  That is not to say, that my professors agree with me.  Even though all I completely like the essays, I did get bad grades on some of them.

One in particular, a sociology essay that I wrote in my second year of college, seemed to me to be a very brilliant piece of work.  However, my professor disagreed.  I barely achieved passing grades on the essay, and I was actually shocked when I found out.

On the other hand, I wrote a management essay in my third year of college and I thought that it certainly was not my best piece of work.  Again, the professor who had assigned the project, disagreed.  It happened to be the very only essay that I got over a 90% grade on.  How ironic is that?

Some people would think that I have a death wish of sorts since I decided to continue my studies all the way to working on my PhD.  I think that there is only one other student working on his graduate degree that I started out with in college so long ago.

But the truth of the matter is I love what I do.  I have been studying to get my doctorate in philosophy and I think it is really cool.  There is nothing I like better than pondering thoughts and coming up with my philosophy on them.

That makes me think of the topic of my PhD dissertation:  I have been studying what students think about others who buy essays.  It has become an increasing problem especially for students that are submitting philosophy essays and I thought it was a good topic.

Anyway, I should get back to writing - if I just sit here and blog, it will never get done.

While surfing the Internet today, I came across some very interesting things.  Perhaps most interesting site a came across was Virginia College Online.

What I found interesting about the site, was the fact that their college offered the opportunity to work on a degree at home and at your own pace.  This is vastly different compared to what traditional colleges offer.  Instead of having a rigid schedule of where you have to be for your class, you can pick the times that you will work on the class.

I was happy to see that you could study anything from their healthcare degrees online to the business degrees online that they offer as a part of the curriculum.  They don’t have a specific timeline set out for you to follow, rather you can work at your own pace.

Since I love learning so much, I think I might go online and learn a new subject.  But I will definitely keep the online classes option open as it will mesh well with the times that I work.

With finals just about done, it is time for me to start cleaning up my dorm room in preparation for me moving away for the summer.  It looks like I will be moving back home this year as the summer job that I have is in my home town where I grew up.

Going through the stuff my room, I find myself throwing way a lot of the dissertations that I wrote during the term.  Most of these papers I wrote were for elective classes and I won’t need them in the future.

The one thing I decided to hold onto was my copy of the research proposal I wrote for my thesis.  I’m especially proud of that work that I did as I earned one of the highest marks that I’ve ever earned in college.  As corny as it sounds, I think I might put it in a frame and stick it on my wall as a constant reminder that once in awhile my writing is a stroke of genius.

I think before I leave for the summer, I will have taken the empty bottles that are stacked up in my room from all the good weekends that I had during the year.  I will be able to use the money I get back to pay for the bus ride home.

As I’m nearing the end of my term at college, and finding increasing demands on my social time and yet I am supposed to be finishing up the last few assignments for my classes.  I really don’t want to miss the last few weeks of spending time with my friends, as I will be moving away for summer to go work and it will not have contact with them for four months.

I decided that maybe the best way to get things done would be to go online, and buy completed assignments in the subject areas that I needed to work on.  While browsing through the essay topics, I found that they did have philosophy essays for sale for a reasonable price so I decided to pick one up.

Glacier seems a lot easier if you can buy your way through college, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.  I can have a life I dream of and the degree I deserve.

Just the other day I decided to Google "buy research paper".  I was curious as to how many results this certain specific quote would come up with.  I was surprised at the vast number of pre-written essays that could be purchased online, and that some of them were available for next to no money at all.

I was not considering buying a custom research paper when I did this search, but it got me to thinking about how many people must do it for the market to be this great.  I wondered if anybody actually writes their own papers anymore.  I also wondered, if I could sell some of my past essays.  Just kidding.

The very next time that I am doing dissertation writing I will be thankful that I am writing for myself and not trying to please someone else.  I guess, the only other person I have to please with it is my professor.  Thankfully, most of my professors seem to like my writing.

I was so excited to be going to college. It had been a long road to get there and I went into it knowing that there was no turning back. I got a list of the coursework that I would be taking my first year and, as the tears were running down my cheeks, I knew that I was going to do it for my mom.

I knew that there were going to be many nights where I would get little or no sleep because I would be up writing essays all night long or cramming before a big exam. I knew that there would be days that I would want to give up and quit, but that I would hang in there because I was doing it for mom.

I knew that when it seemed like the term papers were getting the best of me and that I was getting down on myself that I would still keep going and I would not only keep going, but that I would get great grades and top marks because I was doing it for mom.

I knew that when all of these things happened that I would be able to do it for mom because she would be smiling down at me from heaven and whispering into my ear that she always knew I could do it.

Since the end of the term was nearing, I thought I might take advantage of some of the University services that I should’ve taken advantage of during the year.  I’ve just been so busy with all my assignments that I really hadn’t had a chance to try and them out.

Of all the services at the University offered, the only one that I found moderately useful was the essay assistance center.  There they offered to help me with my psychology essay and help make it an essay that is worthy of an A+ mark.  It is great that their service is offered for free since I really didn’t have the money to pay for the help.

Though I was tempted by the "buy essay" websites, I found that the assistance center provided the help I needed and that I could write a good essay on my own.  I guess I will have to wait and see what kind of mark I receive on it, but I’m sure I’ll do fine.