research methods

ok, so i am finally taking my last required class (it's all free electives until my master's course next spring) and it's research methods. I love research, i always have it's fun and interesting. but i thought doing this class online as a grad student would be lame. and while the class is a bit of a challenge (finding two articles every week, 1 quantitative and the other qualitative is quite a chore) i am totally digging it. yeah we don't get to actually do our own research, but it kind of works. and there is always that bone head who can't type to save his life and you have to figure out what they mean in their post, or the people who are still early into the grad experience and don't understand things, but this is the first class i've taken at capella where i felt really and truly interested in it and see a real exchange between thinking people. usually it's not quite so involved, but this class is different. i signed up for kind of a lame gimme class for next quarter, at least i am hoping it is a gimme class, 700 level, how to write for psychology kinda thing. i'm hoping for a nice break, but well...you just never know.