Must... do... homework...

I love taking college courses online. But I also hate it. It's too easy to say I'll do it later or I'll do it tomorrow. If I were in a ground campus course, I could go to class for my couple hours a week, take a test and pull in an A. In the online environment, they are challenged to make a virtual attendance requirement. This is met by posting comments to peers on the classroom forum. Personally, I'd rather just do the test and submit the assignments. Oftentimes I find myself not having anything substantial to post in response to them, and I spend more time and energy trying to come up with something. How is this helping me learn the subject matter? It's not. Unfortunately, you can ace the quizzes and assignments and still get nailed for not meeting the attendance requirement. Bah. And on that note, I'd better go work out some spectacular postings. Weeeeee!