Tag: School

Hrm, No Class?

Well, no INFO 380 this morning. Here’s how I found out.

Me: *Waiting for either 372/68 to go to campus* Bus shows up @ 9am, like always, and I file onboard the 68 with the rest of the Nordheim folks. I am standing on the bus and I feel my left leg vibrate. I am thinking, that’s odd, no one ever calls me this early in the morning. So, I pick up the phone.
Jamie: Did you get the email?
Me: What email?
Jamie: The one about 380 being cancelled.
Me: No, why?
Jamie: It’s cancelled! Where are you?
Me: That’s cool. I’m on the bus… and the door just closed. Ok, so, great.
Jamie: Well, just come over!!
Me: Ok, I’ll be there!!

That’s how I found out about it this morning. I usually make a point to check my email in the morning since the iSchool has that as their preferred method of information dissemination. But, I have this thing for packing my bag, like a 10 year old, the night before class so that I don’t forget anything. Well, I guess by me packing my laptop I didn’t think of checking my email. Then the question gets asked, why didn’t you check it on Outlook on your PC? Um, damn good question. I don’t really know. I just didn’t? I dunno. I guess that is a lesson learned.

Not having class was a good thing because I had a feeling that the Prof was going to flip out at the poor turnout for the transformation project that he had planned. I am sure that we will hear about it on Thursday, but that’s ok. I think I can handle it. Needless to say the day has started off good so far. Now I just need to get cracking on all the work that is due in the next week.

Lesson Learned: Check email before going to class!

So Busy

This quarter has lived up to its’ pre-quarter hype. The work has been constant all quarter long and is not letting up. This has lead me to spend a lot more time studying this quarter than in previous quarters. Is this a bad thing? No, not really, but I just really did not expect this to happen this quarter. I know that I have said this in the past, but I am just still in shock at how much work I do during the week.
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Listserv Spam Is Annoying

For those of you that attend UW you all know what a listserv (or listproc) is. For those of you who don’t know what it is, I’ll give you a brief explanation. Each class at the UW gets a list of users (the class list) on an email list that the class can use to ask questions of the whole class by just typing in one email address. This makes it very convenient to get in contact with everyone in your class, but when used poorly (or too much) it just becomes inbox spam. This is the case of this past weekend.
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Me, Teaching?

I never thought that I would hear someone tell me that I should be a teacher. But, I had this happen to me on Friday. I was told by a fellow classmate that I would make a good teacher. I can say that this thought has crossed my mind before, but without any real deep thought about it.

Now, I guess this idea (that of me teaching) could be spawned by me always being willing to help those that need help. I really do not have a problem doing this and based on what people tell me, I guess I am halfway decent at it too. Does this mean that I would make a good teacher? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t know if I would want to make teaching my profession, but it would be something that I might consider later.

I just like people to do their best and sometimes I see that there is always something small that holds them back. I guess I am just the one to make them see what the small thing is to have them unlock the rest.

Teaching, that’s interesting… Never thought of myself as a teacher

New Quarter. New Classes.

Well, the new quarter has begun and I don’t really know what to think of it all yet. The classes seem harder than the previous quarters, but at the same time they might be the most rewarding. I am taking two social Informatics classes, one technical Informatics class, and my FIG training class. So, with all of that plus work I will be kept busy most of the quarter. I want to do well this quarter, as I have done in the past, and I think that the goal to stay on the Dean’s List is something that I could do again this quarter. However, I need to trust others to help me along the way. There are many group projects this quarter and I will need to be trusting of the people in our groups. But, yeah, classes should be good, but I really don’t know what to think right now, except that I should be reading right now and I already feel behind and it is only the end of the second day.

Study Fun

Today was pure study fun! Heh, well studying isn’t cool, but the people I studied with were cool. But, anyways it was a good day today and tomorrow will probably suck until 4:20pm when I am officially done with this quarter. Relief is so close; I cannot wait anymore to taste the freedom! But, now I rest for all of the �greatness� that will occur tomorrow.