School Sucks!

Holy cow! It's been 10 days since I have posted. Everything is back to normal, midterms are over and everyone is healthy again! What a horrible two weeks it's been!

I have a major complaint! Go away, Layla...you don't want to read this. I failed my midterm. That's right, I failed it. Why? Well, because according to my instructor, I plagiaraized my paper. A portion of it. I copied a section of a really good website onto my paper. I indented it, and gave the proper citation at the end of the paragraph just like it says to do in the APA citation directions when you want to copy something without changing the words. Well, supposedly this was incorrect and I improperly cited. The consequence - she reported me to the dean on students and now I have to go through an interview to avoid being expelled from school. I fucking hate that school. This has happened before and I fought it and won. I proved that I did not plagiarize and the dean agreed with me. However, this is something completely different considering, I copied a section word for word onto my paper. I remember taking my College Composition classes and I was taught that you are allowed to copy word for word as long as the paragraph is indented and you give the proper citation at the end. The whole paragraph has to be indented, this I know and that is exactly what I did. So, where did I go wrong? Anyone? Was there something I missed? Italics? It doesn'y say anything about having to put the words in italics on the Purdue website. I give up. This sucks and I was totally afraid of this happening again. I don't want to write anyomore essays because of this but it's inevitable. It really is discouraging me from continuing my education and the sad thing about it is that the person who it would hurt is me. So, what do I do?

I am beginning to feel that this whole online education thing was a bad idea. I think that I am better off physically going to a college. It seems that the online courses lack something and that is the hands on experience. Perhaps I should drop out of this school and go to a good reputable school. I don't even know if my degree will be accepted from this school. What if it's not? Then I have wasted time and money on a school that isn't even recognized in the outside working industry. I have a lot to think about. I have to decide soon though.