Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Maria Rainier, a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education performing research surrounding online universities and their various program offerings. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop. I’d like to say that I went on a pub crawl to write this bit—let’s call it investigative journalism—but I’m a little bit on the…