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14 years ago
So I am officially into my second week of college at Unity for the new Semester. So far class expressions are as follows:
Wildlife Law Enforcement: Typical class for my major. Got one of my preferred teachers so it's not too bad. Gonna be mildly boring though. Might be a doodle worthy class.
Introduction to Computers: It amazes me to no abound that there are people who can come to college in today's world and NOT know how to properly use MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Not me though. I tested out for Exam Credit and passed :D
Environmental Citizen: If indoors, this class is an instant Doodle class. If not, it's a busy class that hopefully won't be too bad. Seeing as I've only had this class once, I can't form a good opinion.
Courtroom Procedure & Evidence: This could either be a very interesting class or another possible mild boring possible doodle class. Same teacher as Wildlife Law so not too bad.
Weather & Climate Interesting class. Right now going over just some basic stuff at the moment as far as what the teacher's teaching, but I like him. Good voice and kinda hilarious at times too. Lab for class might get annoying though if I ever forget a pencil (Note: Purchase lots of pencils)
Interpersonal relations: My only gripe about the class not related to the people in it is that it's at 6-7:15 at night on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Otherwise it's kinda a half interesting, half boring class. Interesting because of being able to learn how to speak the Verbal Judo, but boring because the teacher is more vague than an artist's meaning behind a minimalist painting. This, of course, becomes a problem when we have an Autistic person in the class (Who might also be schizophrenic via an actual diagnosis) who needs very specific, exact directions, including knowing what's he's supposed to learn when he reads something for a class. This makes the class mildly entertaining in a schadenfreude way because of their interaction, but at the same time annoying because it gets annoying hearing them banter back and forth. Probably going to be a major doodle class.
Firerms Training: How to summarize this class...? Teacher walks in, finds out he has a student from both Mass and student from New Jersey, and apologizes for the fact that they (Me being the Mass Student) live in a Communist state when it comes to gun control and permits. He then apologizes also to the girl who lives in LA. Yeah, this class will be entertainingly fun :D
Also got my same Workstudy, working Wednesday Nights and then supposedly Sunday afternoons. I need to talk to my supervisor about that though, because she might have put the wrong name by accident. Not a big issue though.
In other news, acquired new stuff for my Desktop so it runs beautifully for most games and stuff. 6 GB RAM and a beautiful Frozr II Nvidia GTX 560 TI Graphics card, plaus a huge new 3 TB HD (HOW MUCH PORN CAN I STORE?! :D ), but while my Desktop now works wonderfully and I can stop looking towards anything new for it (Since only thing left now is pretty much a whole new Motherboard), but my Laptop has decided to pull the ultimate sacrifice. I had acquired a new HD for it, believing that might fix a lot of the issues it had aside from the WLAN issue, but now the recovery disks I had it does not recognize. I had one that I thought came with the laptop but seems it might not have (Had mom send up another she found which might be the correct one), but what worries me is that even a fresh start with my clean Windows 7 OS disks doesn't let it reboot on there. Therefore, it's that time when I look for some type of laptop that can work for the needs I have.
With a new working Desktop that has no issues as of right now, I don't need much for a laptop, and right now all I'm looking for is this:
*Midsize to large (Hate netbooks & My last laptop had like a... 19" or something screen)
*Tough casings (Being able to survive some possible accidental drops or a rough travel between classes)
*Good battery length (Last Laptop could barely hold charge for an hour. I'd prefer 2, hell, 3+ hours if possible)
Being anti me, I really don't need anything fancy, so any suggestions are welcome. I've been told Toshibas are tough little laptops (Owned one previously that handles being dropped down a flight of stairs) but I've been told that some Asus are good too. Any suggestions wlecome, long as not too expensive. No real price range, but cheaper the better, and preferably able to be picked up in store.
No meets planned in the immediate future that I was going to, but if someone comes up with a pretty awesome one maybe I'll make a four hour drive to it as long as it's on a weekend >_> FurFright is a definite go with probably leaving Thursday to get there and staying late as I can Sunday. Will be nice to see some of you guys there again obviously.
Finally, Gonna start once again slowly working on Artwork. Got something I promised
and need to get to work on. gonna attempt it completely digitally so we'll see how that works. If it starts becoming crap real quick, going to go traditional start with digital finish. Nothing immediate planned for Stories, but I am planning on partaking in NaNoWriMo this year and working on very basic stuff for it (Characters nailed down, basic plot, etc) so I can plow through it come November and hopefully actually stay on track.
All for now. Till next time
-BorderDaCougah
Wildlife Law Enforcement: Typical class for my major. Got one of my preferred teachers so it's not too bad. Gonna be mildly boring though. Might be a doodle worthy class.
Introduction to Computers: It amazes me to no abound that there are people who can come to college in today's world and NOT know how to properly use MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Not me though. I tested out for Exam Credit and passed :D
Environmental Citizen: If indoors, this class is an instant Doodle class. If not, it's a busy class that hopefully won't be too bad. Seeing as I've only had this class once, I can't form a good opinion.
Courtroom Procedure & Evidence: This could either be a very interesting class or another possible mild boring possible doodle class. Same teacher as Wildlife Law so not too bad.
Weather & Climate Interesting class. Right now going over just some basic stuff at the moment as far as what the teacher's teaching, but I like him. Good voice and kinda hilarious at times too. Lab for class might get annoying though if I ever forget a pencil (Note: Purchase lots of pencils)
Interpersonal relations: My only gripe about the class not related to the people in it is that it's at 6-7:15 at night on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Otherwise it's kinda a half interesting, half boring class. Interesting because of being able to learn how to speak the Verbal Judo, but boring because the teacher is more vague than an artist's meaning behind a minimalist painting. This, of course, becomes a problem when we have an Autistic person in the class (Who might also be schizophrenic via an actual diagnosis) who needs very specific, exact directions, including knowing what's he's supposed to learn when he reads something for a class. This makes the class mildly entertaining in a schadenfreude way because of their interaction, but at the same time annoying because it gets annoying hearing them banter back and forth. Probably going to be a major doodle class.
Firerms Training: How to summarize this class...? Teacher walks in, finds out he has a student from both Mass and student from New Jersey, and apologizes for the fact that they (Me being the Mass Student) live in a Communist state when it comes to gun control and permits. He then apologizes also to the girl who lives in LA. Yeah, this class will be entertainingly fun :D
Also got my same Workstudy, working Wednesday Nights and then supposedly Sunday afternoons. I need to talk to my supervisor about that though, because she might have put the wrong name by accident. Not a big issue though.
In other news, acquired new stuff for my Desktop so it runs beautifully for most games and stuff. 6 GB RAM and a beautiful Frozr II Nvidia GTX 560 TI Graphics card, plaus a huge new 3 TB HD (HOW MUCH PORN CAN I STORE?! :D ), but while my Desktop now works wonderfully and I can stop looking towards anything new for it (Since only thing left now is pretty much a whole new Motherboard), but my Laptop has decided to pull the ultimate sacrifice. I had acquired a new HD for it, believing that might fix a lot of the issues it had aside from the WLAN issue, but now the recovery disks I had it does not recognize. I had one that I thought came with the laptop but seems it might not have (Had mom send up another she found which might be the correct one), but what worries me is that even a fresh start with my clean Windows 7 OS disks doesn't let it reboot on there. Therefore, it's that time when I look for some type of laptop that can work for the needs I have.
With a new working Desktop that has no issues as of right now, I don't need much for a laptop, and right now all I'm looking for is this:
*Midsize to large (Hate netbooks & My last laptop had like a... 19" or something screen)
*Tough casings (Being able to survive some possible accidental drops or a rough travel between classes)
*Good battery length (Last Laptop could barely hold charge for an hour. I'd prefer 2, hell, 3+ hours if possible)
Being anti me, I really don't need anything fancy, so any suggestions are welcome. I've been told Toshibas are tough little laptops (Owned one previously that handles being dropped down a flight of stairs) but I've been told that some Asus are good too. Any suggestions wlecome, long as not too expensive. No real price range, but cheaper the better, and preferably able to be picked up in store.
No meets planned in the immediate future that I was going to, but if someone comes up with a pretty awesome one maybe I'll make a four hour drive to it as long as it's on a weekend >_> FurFright is a definite go with probably leaving Thursday to get there and staying late as I can Sunday. Will be nice to see some of you guys there again obviously.
Finally, Gonna start once again slowly working on Artwork. Got something I promised
and need to get to work on. gonna attempt it completely digitally so we'll see how that works. If it starts becoming crap real quick, going to go traditional start with digital finish. Nothing immediate planned for Stories, but I am planning on partaking in NaNoWriMo this year and working on very basic stuff for it (Characters nailed down, basic plot, etc) so I can plow through it come November and hopefully actually stay on track.All for now. Till next time
-BorderDaCougah
I further hate to speculate just based on your own quick impressions to try to "tell you what to do"
I'm going to dip my toe in and probably end up with my foot in my mouth, but here's my two cents...
The Interpersonal Relations class. I realize and understand todays reality of inclusiveness for all learning capacities and trying to keep education open to all. And I really harbor no animosity for anyone who has learning disabilitites or challenges, due to autism or otherwise.
(BUT??)
It would seem by your quick impressions this one student is more a distraction and challenge and focus for the professor, all the attention may cater to him and his need, rather than the class at large. To me this would seem counter-productive to any learning or proper college class experience and a waste of your money and time and you'll end up resenting the fact that the class might end up "babysit the autism student" rather than "lets teach out a curriculum and get a subject covered where all can learn at a reasonably approximate similar rate".
So, you may want to choose to cut your losses on this course for this specific semester and go back to it another following semester while you still can get your tuition portion refunded.
the call is up to you. I might choose to do so. your mileage may vary.