Let me say this: The three doctoral residencies were transformational for me. RES720Rin Nov2017; DOC733R in Jan2019 followed back to back with DOC734R in January 2019. As an Online Student I needed the feel of the Phoenix experience. I recall especially during my first residency; at the hotel, getting on the bus to the college building. Meeting those in higher classes and wondering how it felt and enthused to forget all my woes to be in their stead in a matter of one, two or three years. And even more exciting: getting off the bus, walking onto those corridors and meeting faculty. These people were my heroes; it was an amazing feeling, every time!! Could it be because as an Online student I needed to touch and smell the places and people in my new world? On my second trip to Phoenix I took my family and stayed with them in the hotel although they never really saw me; I was way, way, too HAPPILY busy. Those three to five day residencies were among the most pressured and productive periods of my entire course.
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