Online Colleges

by Victoria Williams

When I think of the Internet, I think mainly of games and chat sites. When I have an assignment, I think of word doc. There are many things you can do on the internet, such as shopping, gambling, and social networking. There are also bad things like predators, harassment, and scammers. But I’m going to talk about online colleges. How do you know the college is real? You could find out about the state that it’s in from a different source. How do you know that your credit will be taken seriously? Truth is: you don’t. With online colleges you can never be completely sure that it’s real- or if it is- that your work would be credited. Here’s an example: A person takes a college course online. They do great work, and after the course is finished, they don’t get credit. How do you think that person would feel? They’d probably be mad. They did all this work-and for nothing. I would be mad if that happened to me. Now here’s a different example: Another person takes college online. What they don’t know is that the course is a scam. They do outstanding work, and when they’re finished, the person(s) running the scam shuts it down and takes the person’s work. That person would be outraged. Here’s one last example. A different person takes an online course. They do excellent work and when the course is finished, they’re completely done. No scams, complete credit for their work, all good. They get a great job, and have a good life. Happy example. Another thing that’s stupid on the Net is that there are things called Diploma Mills. You want a quick and easy diploma without doing all the work? Just find a diploma mill online. After two days you could get a diploma. Here’s an example: A person doesn’t want to pay for college. So what does he do? He looks for a diploma mill online. Gets a diploma in any field he wants and goes off to get a job. Does he get caught? I don’t know. I’m not exactly sure if diploma mills are legal or not, but they just sound stupid. I mean a kid could go online and get a diploma. Now you’ve heard my view on online colleges- what’s yours?