that mobile blogging in fact is not as easy as I thought, and two posts have vanished into goodness knows where...
I get to go to a course rep meeting tomorrow, woo. Actually despite my sarcasm I am quite interested (somewhat self selecting I suppose since I am unlikely to have volunteered otherwise). I'm less keen on the fact that Wednesday is my late night day and by the end I will be one tired little bunny. Not least because I wait in the bus station, the extremely cold bus station, for quite some time since night time buses don't appear to have quite the same joined up-ness that daytime ones do.*
I handed my first proper assignment in today, I have low expectations for it frankly, but I've tried. That I got deeply confused by the process of handing in does not bode well...
*Random aside, this genuinely confuses me do they assume that all shift workers, doctors, nurses etc can drive or live next door to their place of work?
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Actual Factual Practi-cual
Yes first practical.
Was it exciting? Not especially.
Was it new? Not particularly.
Do I still hate microscopes? Yes. Yes I do.
Do they still make me go cross eyed? Very much so.
Are lab coats still horribly uncomfortable? Indeed.
Did I see some metaphase bits of onion? For once yes.
Was it exciting? Not especially.
Was it new? Not particularly.
Do I still hate microscopes? Yes. Yes I do.
Do they still make me go cross eyed? Very much so.
Are lab coats still horribly uncomfortable? Indeed.
Did I see some metaphase bits of onion? For once yes.
Friday, 15 October 2010
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Field Trip
We did go in a bus and we did go to some rocks and we did see a mine.
I felt pretty much as though I was 7 yesterday. Things I don't like: people not being clear about what they mean, or why they want you to do something. Transparency in teaching, people, transparency.
I was very relieved that it was a proper coach, with a qualified coach driver (I trust minibuses not a bit).
It wasn't bad, and in parts (well part) was interesting. I could however, think of several hundred things I'd rather do on a Saturday.
I felt pretty much as though I was 7 yesterday. Things I don't like: people not being clear about what they mean, or why they want you to do something. Transparency in teaching, people, transparency.
I was very relieved that it was a proper coach, with a qualified coach driver (I trust minibuses not a bit).
It wasn't bad, and in parts (well part) was interesting. I could however, think of several hundred things I'd rather do on a Saturday.
Friday, 8 October 2010
It's Friday night, it's time for...
Map reading. Oh yes reader. You ARE envious aren't you? Don't deny it. I can feel it through the screen.
Yes my entertainment tonight will be trying to finish my map homework in anticipation of tomorrow's field-trip, which isn't, as one might hope, to somewhere glamorous. It is infact to somewhere nearer to my house than the university is. Matlock Bath. Oh yes indeedy. That exciting. Mostly I'm concerned about the potential of getting on a normal public transport bus first thing in the morning dressed like a rejected Village People member (and no sadly its not the Indian). That and the fact that after a whole day with people I may end up killing someone. My patience levels are at an all time low at the minute.
Partly because my back is in absolute agony. To the point where I'm genuinely considering a wheelie flight case to carry about. I have reduced all my stuff that I take daily to minimum levels. Really truly minimum for me. I have to carry a full pencil case I cannot assume, as so many others do, that the one pen I take will always work.
Also my patience is low thanks to spending the day searching for information and meeting the "your institution does not subscribe to this" screen far far too frequently. I understand that they can't afford to subscribe to everything but one journal had about five different articles and appears to be something of a 'core' journal. However, I am apparently mad for spending this much time on this essay, since it is a formative essay. For those not familiar, formative is code for"nil points", but you have to do it as a requirement of the module. However, you get given feedback. And if I'm going to get feedback on technique I'd like it to be information that I actually do need to know rather than telling me stuff I knew, but haven't done because it was a no pointer. Partly because it seems a colossal waste of both mine and my teacher's time, and partly because I'm there to learn new stuff. That's the whole point for me.
Well, anon, I must go to my map again. Joy.
Yes my entertainment tonight will be trying to finish my map homework in anticipation of tomorrow's field-trip, which isn't, as one might hope, to somewhere glamorous. It is infact to somewhere nearer to my house than the university is. Matlock Bath. Oh yes indeedy. That exciting. Mostly I'm concerned about the potential of getting on a normal public transport bus first thing in the morning dressed like a rejected Village People member (and no sadly its not the Indian). That and the fact that after a whole day with people I may end up killing someone. My patience levels are at an all time low at the minute.
Partly because my back is in absolute agony. To the point where I'm genuinely considering a wheelie flight case to carry about. I have reduced all my stuff that I take daily to minimum levels. Really truly minimum for me. I have to carry a full pencil case I cannot assume, as so many others do, that the one pen I take will always work.
Also my patience is low thanks to spending the day searching for information and meeting the "your institution does not subscribe to this" screen far far too frequently. I understand that they can't afford to subscribe to everything but one journal had about five different articles and appears to be something of a 'core' journal. However, I am apparently mad for spending this much time on this essay, since it is a formative essay. For those not familiar, formative is code for"nil points", but you have to do it as a requirement of the module. However, you get given feedback. And if I'm going to get feedback on technique I'd like it to be information that I actually do need to know rather than telling me stuff I knew, but haven't done because it was a no pointer. Partly because it seems a colossal waste of both mine and my teacher's time, and partly because I'm there to learn new stuff. That's the whole point for me.
Well, anon, I must go to my map again. Joy.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
On the many browser challenge
I got my first assignment, and bizarrely I've realised I'm going to have to start using a third browser on my computer. Most of the useful plugins for citing and keeping records of journals to cite, go with Firefox. And Mr Mozilla and I parted ways some months ago, because frankly its like entering an unfit overweight beer swilling man with poor eyesight into a night time speed orienteering challenge. So by preference I use Chrome, and because the university website refuses to believe that Chrome is a browser I also use IE*. But neither Chrome nor IE seem to work with any decent citation plug ins, so Mr Mozilla will get another chance.
Though in some ways this is moot, since this one I have to handwrite...
*Some geeky types have a vehement hatred of IE (equally some hate MF, but IE hate seems more common) which I cannot fathom, yes MF is open-source but currently it doesn't do the job as well as it should. I don't care how much money someone makes from my using their product if it works. Random aside over.
Though in some ways this is moot, since this one I have to handwrite...
*Some geeky types have a vehement hatred of IE (equally some hate MF, but IE hate seems more common) which I cannot fathom, yes MF is open-source but currently it doesn't do the job as well as it should. I don't care how much money someone makes from my using their product if it works. Random aside over.
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