I have just finished my second week of school and won't go back until the middle of this week as they are closed for Martin Luther King day. Which gives me an extra day of study and making up work, since I have to have 40 hours a week to keep my full-time benefit status.
Mr. Give Me An Inch and I'll Take A Mile has not returned to class, for which I am grateful. I kind of figured him as a drop-add anyway.
The biggest shock is seeing how much school has changed since I was last there around six years ago. I'm serious. I feel like all of my skills in researching and writing about topics are obsolete. Everything is online now. I know how to do traditional library research but I know very little about college-level online research except that certain sites like Wikipedia are frowned upon. I have no way of determining which are the acceptable sites and which are not! The subject matter itself is relatively easy, due to my extra-curricular reading habits; I may not have taken any formal classes in political science and sociology but the names and terms are quite familiar to me. Apparently I am not the only "advanced" student; the prof said he had never had a class that was so well acquainted with the subject. Usually they have to spend about half the semester just introducing concepts but he said he is going to cut that short so we can get to the real stuff about other countries' governments since we already know the basics. This promises to be a lively class.
Mr. Give Me An Inch and I'll Take A Mile has not returned to class, for which I am grateful. I kind of figured him as a drop-add anyway.
The biggest shock is seeing how much school has changed since I was last there around six years ago. I'm serious. I feel like all of my skills in researching and writing about topics are obsolete. Everything is online now. I know how to do traditional library research but I know very little about college-level online research except that certain sites like Wikipedia are frowned upon. I have no way of determining which are the acceptable sites and which are not! The subject matter itself is relatively easy, due to my extra-curricular reading habits; I may not have taken any formal classes in political science and sociology but the names and terms are quite familiar to me. Apparently I am not the only "advanced" student; the prof said he had never had a class that was so well acquainted with the subject. Usually they have to spend about half the semester just introducing concepts but he said he is going to cut that short so we can get to the real stuff about other countries' governments since we already know the basics. This promises to be a lively class.
