Category: Blog

By Blake Bremmer, Marketing Management student Online schooling is becoming the new wave of education, but are you participating and educating yourself just as if you were in a classroom? Well, here is some of my personal insight on how I’ve been doing better than ever in school. I got my feet a little wet […]

By Delaney Schomberg, Digital Marketing student When I applied to Western Technical College in the fall of 2019, I was expecting to have classes in person, but then world as we knew it completely changed. I started at Western in the fall of 2020. I was nervous about online learning but as the semester went […]

By Seth Draeger, Marketing Management student My Name is Seth Draeger. I was a 2020 graduate from Fort Atkinson High School. COVID-19 started during my senior year and the administration let us know halfway through spring break that we would not be returning to school; this was a weird time for me. Whoever thought that […]

By Michaela Hermeier, Marketing Management student The adjustment to online learning was a pain. When it first started, I did not realize the difference that it was going to make. Looking at the adjustments that I had to make taught me a lot. I wanted to share my tips on how to be successful in […]

By Avery Strangstalien, Digital Marketing student When I heard Western TC was planning on going fully online during the pandemic crisis, I was thrilled. I could watch class in my pajamas, my schedule became more flexible, and I could have snacks and coffee without sounding like that one terrible, terrible person at the movie theater […]

By Bryce Weymiller, Digital Marketing student Nobody was expecting it, no one wanted it, but it happened. A pandemic that would flip this world upside down for everyone. As they say when life throws you a curveball, don’t let it knock you down and keep you down. Re-adjust, and keep moving forward. That is exactly […]

By Elisabeth Ells, Digital Marketing student How do you stay focused when you cannot sit in a classroom? I started my Western journey in the middle of COVID, so I have no prior experience with attending classes without COVID. I did enroll in the Digital Marketing online program, so I expected my time to be […]

By Shannon Simpson, Western Technical College student To say this last year has been challenging is an understatement. I don’t have to remind anyone why, or rehash what happened. The least I can say is we have all experienced this pandemic together. For institutions of higher learning, like Western Technical College, this past year has […]

By Abby Vieth, Digital Marketing student When I made the decision to go back to school in the Fall of 2020, classes had already been completely virtual since the Spring. Having never taken my classes fully online before, I wasn’t sure what the experience was going to be like or if it would be right […]

By Zach Boyer, Marketing Management student I remember sitting in my bed in March of 2020 and seeing a Twitter notification saying the NBA has decided to suspend the season due to COVID-19, the once seemed impossible to happen, virus spreading from country to country like nothing nobody has seen before. The virus impacted everyday […]