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Show A13 ORIENTATION ISSUE Online course survival Online courses are a reat option, but you have to consider the challenges manda Holtman ssistant Opinions Editor HolimanAmanda Like most colleges, Utah ValUniversity offers many online ourses to give students a variety • f options to achieve their degree. 1 ike any other choice, there are enefits and downfalls. Before licking the submit button to regiser for that online class, check out if hat is a good option for you. Online courses give students a hance to learn on their own time, which is especially helpful for many. UVU has many working students trying to pay their bills, and often finding a job that works with your class schedule is difficult. While online classes have deadlines just like traditional classes, they give you a chance to plan your education when you have time for it. While having the option to learn the material on your own schedule is a great opportunity, it can be a challenge for many people to acI ey While having the option to learn the material on your own schedule is a great opportunity, it can be a challenge for many people to accomplish. complish. It is easy to procrastinate taking the time to learn the material in order to be ready for the test. Those that are excellent self-motivators can be successful in online courses, while those of us that do not fall into that category have to work much harder. If you fall into the latter group try to plan a specific time to take care of the work for each online class. Planning will make effectively completing the class more likely. Everyone learns differently; some people learn best from lectures while others need a hands-on experience to get the most out of a class. Knowing your learning style will greatly help you in your college experience, especially when considering online courses. With online classes, it is often difficult to get in touch with your professor, so you have to do many things on your own. If you can learn from a textbook, with possibly other visual teaching tools such as slideshows or videos, then online classes could work for you. Another helpful tool for a successful online class would be to have a tutor to be able to fill in the holes in the information that you do not understand. Whether this is a friend who knows the material or someone you hire to assist you, having a supplemental source of aid can be a great means for victory. From a young age, the term "strength in numbers" has become real to us. Accomplishing a difficult task is easier if there is someone to motivate. Try to plan your schedule so that you know someone taking the class with you. If that is not an option, once the class starts, see if someone will get together with you to study so that you can help each other out. Online classes can be a great option for those that would like a change of pace from their regular classes or want to have more control over their learning. Just make sure that you know how to keep yourself motivated before taking the class. aiP LAURA FOX/UVU REVIEW Traditional classes versus online classes. Is the freedom gained from online worth the structure lost? The housing report Look at your housing options as a UVU student Joshua Wartena Opinions Editor joshua.wartena@gmail.com You're finally at college Congratulations; you got through high school and are stepping onto the path that likely determines the rest of your life. You have to live somewhere for the next couple years, but Orem sure doesn't look like a college town. Where are the dorms, fraternity houses, and apartments? There are no dorms or on-campus housing here. There are several apartment complexes close by, namely Wolverine Crossing and the Ventana Apartemnts, but cornpared to other universities its size, UVU has a very different studenthousing situation. Go over the hill to BYU; you'll find hundreds of freshmen crammed in dorms like so many sardines, using the cafeteria and communal showers. Step off the Y campus and you find yourself lost in a maze of apartment complexes and houses available to rent. A huge portion of Provo is dedicated to housing BYU students: the Brandbury Complex, the Brittany Apartments, Glenwood, Raintree Commons, Riviera, Wyview, Wymount, the list goes on and on, all BYU-approved housing. Chances are, as a UVU student, you're living at home, with a relative, or commute to school. If you're single and need a place, you can probably find somewhere relatively close to campus for $300-400 a month. Sure, it's not going to be the traditional college experience; you'll be in someone's basement, a four-plex, or just a regular apartment in the middle of a residential area, but it works. Now, if you're married, it's a whole different headache. Gone are the days when you could split the apartment rent between four people, crash in one-room studio or continue living with mom and dad. Now you're looking at married housing. Buckle up. My fiancé and I are apartment hunting right now. Here's some advice: Get out of Orem. No, really, Orem is ridiculously expensive. We thought we found a great one-room, 400 sq. ft. apartment. Then they told us rent is $750 a month. That's just not possible for two students. So we went to Provo, looking for a nice, clean place in a good area for $600. We found a small basement through KSL classifieds in a 100-year-old house for $500. Awesome, right? Except that the ceilings were only six feet tall, the walls were cinderblock, the bubble-glass windows didn't open, and the heat was an old gas radiator with the pipes running a foot below the ceiling. It was a cross between a cave and a prison cell. Maybe we're just looking in the wrong places, but if you want to Chances are, as a UVU student, you're living at home, with a relative, or commute to school. live in a decent are in a decent apartment, you're going to have to pay through the nose for it. The housing problem is just another aspect that makes UVU so different from other universities. We're struggling to grow from a trade school/community college to a full-blown university with more than 30,000 students, and the infrastructure is being thrown together as fast as it can. Here, you might not ever know a campus that isn't under construction, or ever have an easy time finding an affordable, convenient place to live. You can get upset or look for another place to go to school, or you can use the state of affairs to grow. You aren't living in a dorm with 300 other freshmen eating at a cafeteria; you're in an apartment with a one-year contract deciding for yourself what to eat, when to clean, who comes over and when, and what to do with your life. You have the chance to choose something difficult and fail. UVU isn't the easy way out, especially when it comes to housing. However, it is the best place to learn to be an adult and decide who you're going to be. SCHEDULE YOUR INTRO FLIGHT & TOUR 1-888-901-1192 I WWW.FIvUVU.COM LIVU cbo of of AVIATION SCIENCES UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY NOW RENTING STARTING FALL Men's and Women's BYU & UVU Approved Single Student Housing Tropical Solarium With Year Round Beach Sand Volleyball and Pool! Come Live In A Student Complex Where Everyone Agrees To Live LDS Standards! 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