Hello and Farewell:

This will more then likely be the last class posting. I've added a few photographs of myself towards the bottom of my blog profile page if anyone would be interested. I am Eight months old with Santa, Dec. 1960...then my High School graduation photo, in my parents front yard, June 1978. Boy does that bring back the memories.
Now, I am finishing up this, my fourth term (second round of college), 31 years have past, I am still learning, and maintaining to get ahead with a family of my own now, along with the grandchildren. I am praying that by my return to school, it will show them that an Education is something no one can remove from you. You, yourself earn that right, You may own all the worldly posessions you ever wanted and in a matter of the blink in ones eye, it can be taken from you. However, the education remains forever.-
Keep striving to learn something new each day, cherish the friendships you make along the way, and when one decides to stray, Pray to God, they find the proper way back...
Best wishes to one and all in whatever your future may hold.

Friendship for always,
Madelyn (Maddie) Mandina

Winding down...

Wow, This time sure has flown past. It seems as though it was just yesterday that we were all beginning this process. It is coming to an end though, what does one say at a moment like this?
First of all, I would like to Thank each one of you for the support in which you have shown throughout.
Professor Feraldi, You have been a been a blessing. I appreciate all the time and effort you have given the class and myself. Classmates, Thank you for the DB postings and feedbacks, the comments in which you leave on the blog page and just being whom you are, it has definitely made this class enjoyable. May God bless each of you and your families, may he give each one strength to complete their degree programs and Bless each as we go out into the real world each day.
Again, I thank you for your friendships.

Maddie

PS: Please keep up with the blog, as this is quite frequently the only thing which helps me to keep my sanity. LOL.

Peer Reviews

Hello Everyone,
I love peer reviews on my papers for the classes which I need. Peer reviews are a great way to get some advice and input from someone other than just family. Students whom are going through the same thing you are have more insight to what it is that Professors are looking for also. The classmates, give feedback as to how one may improve their paper, or simply just by commenting in a nuetral opinion about what they have read.
It is reassuring one another if nothing else. I appreciate all the comments I receive, and I do in fact take the advice of others. It is just another way of learning something very valuable. So Please, do me the favor and comment, (good, bad, questions which you think may help improve the content of the final paper). Thank you for all the help, encouragement, and friendship of this class.

Maddie

Welcome to the New Year 2010

Well, Looks as though I and my family made it through yet another year...Hopefully this new year will bring many new adventures to us all. (Including all of you out there in this blogging age).
I've never made a new year's resolution before because it seems as though nothing ever goes as planned... I know, I need to think positive more often, and so I think that this year is going to be better., I am going to think positive because, the Negative cannot get worse than it is already... Sound like a winner to everyone? My computer keeps saying "feed me" and I've no idea where it is coming from...it is frightening actually.
Any way, I wish everyone a Happy and Joyous New Year...may the classes continue to go well, and this is the year of graduation so it has to get better...Positive thinking all the way, I am going to do this, This is My Year of CELEBRATION...