Week 5 Blog Entry

I think this is the first week thus far that I think I can say came off with some reasonable degree of success. That's not a good thing.

The only two assignments I had difficulty with was the citation assignment, because Proquest was down for maintenance. I could have done that section later if Proquest was back up...but...I'm lazy, and forgot about it. It's now 11 PM on Wed, and it's too late to do it.

The second was our last assignment. I had no idea that the books we found from the library visit would be involved. I didn't state in my report that I had ordered them from another Timberland because...I didn't think it'd be a big deal. Little did I know. However, I think the substitution I came up with is if equal value. Hopefully you will see it the same way.

Beyond those two issues, this week went fine. Here's to next week going as well...or preferably, better.

Week 4 Blog Entry

Week 4 is now in the books, as far as I can tell assignment wise. I even was able to do the library assignment from last week.

Nothing this week gave me any problems...I don't know if I did them very well, but I was able to do all the assignments.

I found the How I Know assignments to be the most interesting ones we did. The Canuck question produced different results, while all of us had a different theory on what we knew ourselves.

I'm planning on doing last week's Library Catalog assignment soon, even if I get no credit for it, but I couldn't fit it in this week. Too much going on.

On to week 5!

Week 3 Blog Entry

This week has been something else for me. Since I'm taking both online and in-class classes, it's kind of merged together in my mind.

The first assignment we had to do, on organizational systems, I royally messed up. I had a trip sprung on me for Thursday by my Mother, and I got home on Friday...I hadn't checked the schedule, and had no idea an assignment was due. I realized it on Saturday...but it was already late, so I put it off. I ended up doing it during a break in my history class on Monday. Not the best way to do it.

The second assignment on databases, I actually had problems with it. Proquest gave me problems, but I managed to make it work...I had trouble with some of the terms, and I have no idea why. I went off results I came up with, and my prior experiences using resources like proquest in my answer.

The big issue is the final two assignments. I can't do them. I asked the question earlier in this class during first week about going to an academic library...The answer is we had to and not to supplement it with something like Timberland...but I live in Long Beach, WA. I live on an isolated Peninsula hours away from the main campus. I even asked Teri Dodson, who runs the center here and she had no idea what I could do for this. Traveling to the campus is completely out of the realm of possibility, and even getting to Astoria to the college there would be right now. I don't drive, and there's no way I can afford to pay gas and take time out of someone else's day to take me up there. It's not feasable for me.

I THOUGHT about using my skills at BS to make something up...but I thought that'd be easily noticible, and on top of that, it'd be lying. I don't like lying. So...Once again, for the third week in a row, it looks like I'm going to have to take the hit. I don't think Ican take many more of these though.

Anyway, that's week 3 in a nut shell.

Week 2 Blog Entry

Week 2 hasn't gone too well for me in this class...I was late with the blog making, and I waited until today to do the library assignment...and the GHC Library wouldn't work for me when I tried to look for information. So I was unable to do that. I did everything else though, so...I guess that's not too bad.

Bloging...HAJIME~!

Well, here it is. A day late, and a dollar short.

I'm well used to blogs, so setting this up wasn't difficult. I'll see about changing colors and all that soon though.