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Date: 09 March 2006 22:34:04
I was almost late again for class... But remembered that Thursday is college day when I walked in the door... Man, just imagine if I was studying at some other campus... I'd have failed for non-attendance...
Fi asked a while back how the studying is going and I haven't responed... largely due to a distinct lack of time, but to answer her question the response has to be
"Flippin' awesome."
I have to apologise that's this is not a suitably academic description for use by someone studying in a higher education institution... maybe I should have said. The course is progressing very well, thank you, I am enjoying it enormously.
Rolls Eyes...
We had a refresher lecture yesterday concerning how to write for Higher Ed (because, till now, we've been a VET course (as in vocational education and training) and the ethos and practise of both is rather different.
The lecturer delivered a pop quiz to establish how much we read... happily I scored well, getting 13.5 out of 20 (the highest scorer only pipped me by .5) so I'm on the way to being an intellectual, I do at least read the [e-] paper every morning and afternoon... which means I know what the AWB is and other very important things like where the Aussies have been playing cricket in recent weeks...
Apparently this is going to be very useful...
Being a geek has its compensations when you're a student too. I'm the only bod in the class who takes all her notes on the laptop and who is hooked into the local wireless network during class (perk#1 of being the IT girl) so I'm called upon to reference all sorts of stuff from the net during the lecture... [further proof (as if yesterday's post wasn't enough) that being and IT geek is a ticket to being the teacher's/boss' pet...] but hopefully it's more cool than it is geeky and I won't get ostracised by my peers (who are all apparently half my age).
Anyway, the best part of it all as that I'm exercising bits of my brain that were getting a bit dusty, and it feels awesome.
Now I just have to figure out where to find the time to actually do the assignments...