I am grateful for this: I have more time - and not just to do homework, but for my family. Gratefully, it's slow enough at work that I can slip a good portion of my homework into the cracks of time at my day job.
This has been a big help, too: On our first day of Psychology our instructor gave us two chapters to read. That doesn't seem like a big deal until you consider that the book is available online, which means I can only read it if I'm in front of a computer. Also, they are massive! The first two chapters consisted of 115 pages... and that was AFTER I copy/pasted it over into a Word document. It took me at least 2 hours to get through that first chapter on my first Saturday. But in my reading I discovered that a review for the book was available as an audio book for only $10. I quickly made the purchase and it has been a life-saver ever since. It takes me 40 minutes to drive to work in the morning, and then again at the end of my day. That's 1 hour and 20 minutes of listen-study I'm able to do each day. It has helped me tremendously.
So, at the end of my day, after being brain-fried by work and school I am able to come home and let it all sink in as I play with my family. And that was something I have not been able to do at all for the past 2 semesters!
We just learned at last night's class that next week is the halfway-midterm point. We will be having our midterm test next week in Psychology. It will cover chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9. Wow... that's a lot of listening. Last night we talked about long term and short term memory. Time to see what I've still retained!
For Digital Imaging it looks like our 2nd assignment, the T-Shirt assignment, will be our midterm there. I worked hard on my draft only to find out that the instructor thought it was too much. Wow... Back to the drawing board, of course, but now I'll be deleting instead of adding. Like my mom says, "It's always easier to pull back than to add in." Of course, that's in reference to trying to pull a performance out of an actor. On the 'drawing board,' as it were, it does translate differently.
We'll see how I do next week.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Semester 3.1
I'm coming up on the halfway point of the 3rd semster: Digital Illustration on Wednesday mornings and Psychology Thursday nights. Gratefully, my day job-assignment is good enough to allow me the 4 and a half hours off to take the day class. However, since we've decided to go with the temp agency's insurance we can't afford me to miss those hours. So, I work to make up for it a little bit each day that I am at work. I take only 30 minutes of lunch here, work an extra day there, etc. That means long hours at work, long hours at school, lots of missed sleep (I typically had been taking naps on my lunch break where I could), and a loss of personal time. Oh well, it's still better than the misery I was going through during the first semester!
I'm now officially working on my 4th month here, and even though I still have people asking me what my future plans are concerning the company, I have yet to receive any hiring offers. The 'slow' period has come to an 'end' as the next projects I was brought in for have now picked up again. In fact, they have increased. There will be a new project, just like the 1st one I was brought on for, every month up to the end of the year. In this next month there are 3 happening at the same with 2 in Korea that I have to help coordinate (there were 4 but 1 may get canceled). With that, the individuals who I was helping during the 'slow' time still want me to be involved. Gratefully, I just solved a monster of an issue with another payment project I was working on for another department's supervisor. So, now, when that rolls around again it hopefully won't be as bad as it has been (*knocks on wood*).
In all honesty, I'm creating as many notes on "How to..." as I can so if something happens and I don't end up being hired the next person behind me won't have to go through the pain and suffering of having to 'figure everything out' that me and my supervisor had to go through. Who knows? Maybe they'll wake up one morning and just plain decide that someone could do a better job. Until they hire me everything is still up in the air. Until then, I'm still just a temp driving way too far to get to a job that is not a picnic (though fulfilling, for the most part), that I still might not get.
But at the end of all things, it's still a heckuva lot better than a warehouse!
I'm a bit torn about how I'm going to set up sites here on the ol' blog concerning my classes. I can always set up a pic. site for Digital Illustrator (using Adobe Illustrator), that's no problem. But I'm unsure about how, exactly, I would set up a site for psychology. I have so many views already from my own experiences that this class seems to want to butt-heads with. I can't go against or even deny the fantastic experiences I am honored to have witnessed-I won't. So right now I'm playing with the idea of creating the site to say, "The book, class, and instructor say this. Here are my own philosophies." Just be careful what you read. Like my own saying site says, "Opinions are like butts: Everyone has one, they all stink to everyone else, and we should all keep them under wraps."
Tune in next time for more...
I'm now officially working on my 4th month here, and even though I still have people asking me what my future plans are concerning the company, I have yet to receive any hiring offers. The 'slow' period has come to an 'end' as the next projects I was brought in for have now picked up again. In fact, they have increased. There will be a new project, just like the 1st one I was brought on for, every month up to the end of the year. In this next month there are 3 happening at the same with 2 in Korea that I have to help coordinate (there were 4 but 1 may get canceled). With that, the individuals who I was helping during the 'slow' time still want me to be involved. Gratefully, I just solved a monster of an issue with another payment project I was working on for another department's supervisor. So, now, when that rolls around again it hopefully won't be as bad as it has been (*knocks on wood*).
In all honesty, I'm creating as many notes on "How to..." as I can so if something happens and I don't end up being hired the next person behind me won't have to go through the pain and suffering of having to 'figure everything out' that me and my supervisor had to go through. Who knows? Maybe they'll wake up one morning and just plain decide that someone could do a better job. Until they hire me everything is still up in the air. Until then, I'm still just a temp driving way too far to get to a job that is not a picnic (though fulfilling, for the most part), that I still might not get.
But at the end of all things, it's still a heckuva lot better than a warehouse!
I'm a bit torn about how I'm going to set up sites here on the ol' blog concerning my classes. I can always set up a pic. site for Digital Illustrator (using Adobe Illustrator), that's no problem. But I'm unsure about how, exactly, I would set up a site for psychology. I have so many views already from my own experiences that this class seems to want to butt-heads with. I can't go against or even deny the fantastic experiences I am honored to have witnessed-I won't. So right now I'm playing with the idea of creating the site to say, "The book, class, and instructor say this. Here are my own philosophies." Just be careful what you read. Like my own saying site says, "Opinions are like butts: Everyone has one, they all stink to everyone else, and we should all keep them under wraps."
Tune in next time for more...
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