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Set the alarm for 4 A.M. Get up, and try to focus your eyes with a cup of caffeine. Spend an hour studying for your degree. Wake your children and get them ready for day care. Make sure they have lots of activities; it will be a long day for them. Drop them off and head to work.

After a long, grueling day at work, try to unwind while you drive across town to the community college campus. Tonight, classes are four hours, so expect to be finished around 9 P.M. Hopefully, you are one of those students fortunate enough to have a family member or life partner who can pick the children up and take them home.

The children will be in bed when you get home. Try to spend a little time studying before you fall asleep, exhausted. Set the alarm so you can do all of this again tomorrow.

STOP! What are you doing? Is this really worth it? If this kind of routine seems unthinkable, but you really do want to finish your college degree program, consider earning a degree from online schools that are regionally accredited and reputable. Top online schools now offer business degrees, online graphic design majors, and even online graduate courses. You can earn a degree online in almost any major.

Consider this alternative: Get up at 6 A.M. and get ready for work. Wake the children and drop them off at day care. Go to work and come home at 6 P.M. Spend some time with your family and put your children to bed. Spend an hour or two studying for your distance learning degree, and go to sleep knowing that you will never have to face 4 A.M. again.

Don’t consider the money you will save on gas. Don’t consider the amount of driving time you will save, or the energy you won’t spend sitting in a classroom listening to a professor yawn over his material. Thin about setting the alarm clock for 4 A.M. instead. Think about coming home exhausted long after the children are in bed.

Which alternative would you rather face?