Online Spanish Class Analysis

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It was the summer before my freshman year of college, and I had decided to get my foreign language requirement out of the way. I took an online Spanish class, figuring that it would make my fall semester much more enjoyable if I didn’t have my least favorite subject to worry about. The first week of class, I realized that doing four months’ worth of Spanish in less than two months was not going to be an easy task. For the record, I am a good student, and I can usually make good grades with a limited schedule. However, I bumped up to working 35 hours a week this summer as well as watching my younger siblings in the evenings, so help myself stay afloat, I searched the internet for help with my homework. I am not proud of this, but I have to tell

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