Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Moody Bible Institute

I have had a lot of people ask me how my schooling works over the past year. So, I thought this would be a good way to explain to everyone exactly how online classes work. Every day that I am going to work on school I log onto a website connected with Moody. When I'm there I can see all the classes that I am enrolled in. Once I can see them I click on one of the classes and then it's broken up into each week. I basically just work week to week and complete all the assignments that are in that weeks folder. I have really loved it so far. I feel like the time I am working on the class is very valuable. I haven't really felt that prior to this. Before I felt like about at least 50% of my time was just wasted, so this is a nice change of pace. I don't spend the same amount of time working as I did before, but the times that I am working is extremely intense. It's nice to not have an exact time limit on the work, it can be so intense that I need a few breaks in the middle.
My way of getting into Moody can only be described as a God thing. I had switched my major and minor so many times and still didn't feel like I was in the right place. After some searching I had found Moody and applied. I new it was a crazy good and intense school just by the application. So many essay question, I had to have my preacher fill out a few questions about my faith, and I had to fill out questions and make them extremely detailed. My school year at William Penn was ending and I needed to have my future plans figured out, so two week after I sent my application in... I still had nothing. I would constantly be looking in the mail day after day with nothing addressed to me. I finally had made the decision that if i didn't get accepted that was God's way of telling me I needed to stick it out at William Penn, and if I did get accepted that was God's way of telling me Moody and a career in the ministry was my path. I tend to be a control freak, so having this situation completely out of my control was stressful, but after a few days I finally got that envelope addressed to me with Moody Bible Institute as the return address. I opened it and it read Congratulations  Mr. Cody DeZwarte. To quote the great Paul Harvey "Now you know the rest of the story"

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