School..

Posted by Pamala on Sep 16th, 2009 in School | Comments Off

I’ve been thinking about perhaps completing a Bachelors degree. I’m not sure what I would do it in though. It would have to be a worthwhile degree and I’m not even sure where I would go to get this degree, either CSUN or CSCI. Then I would have to do it at night unless I put off my job search. And where would I get the money? Do I want to really want to rack up more Student Loan debt?

I have a ASIS in Early Childhood Education and Development and I was thinking of going ahead with getting a Bachelors, once again I’m not sure in what I would have to get it, and then getting a teaching credential. I always wanted to be a teacher, not of Jr. High or High Schoolers though. So I guess I have some research to do and then determine if I want to spend the next 3 to 4 years doing school again.

So it helps to speak up…

Posted by Pamala on Jan 16th, 2009 in School | Comments Off

: Image by Ana Santos via Flickr

So remember I wrote about how one of my professors marked me down for not having a cover page on my project as stated in Unit 1. And I emailed expressing my confusion over the directions and my points deduction. She changed my grade to 195/195 and said she was sorry for her mistake. Kick ass. So I got a 98.4% in the course! WOOHOO!!

The Ghost Blog

Posted by Pamala on Jan 16th, 2009 in Everyday Life, School | Comments Off

: Image via Wikipedia

I have to wonder what makes a person just stop writing in their blog? I use Stumble Upon to just randomly throw me around to blogs on the internet. It’s really hit and miss. People either don’t update regularly or they just up and stopped one day. It’s like running across a ghost town. And I have to wonder what exactly happens? What makes them not say goodbye? Why do they leave the site up? I mean if you don’t want to do the blog anymore, why leave your information up? One has to wonder, did they pass away? If so why hasn’t the family removed the blog? Perhaps they don’t know of it’s exsistance and now it’s just sitting there, collecting internet dust.

I mean some of the sites I’ve Stumbled upon are as old as 2005. Some on their own domains, meaning someone bought a URL and is maintaining a server somewhere for this blog but it’s sitting doing nothing. Sometimes I’ll see blogs that say they’ve moved just to find that the blog they moved to is dead too.

I should start a list of Ghost Blogs (apparently this has a definition totally unrelated to how I’m using it). Maybe it will prove interesting to try and find what may or may not have happened with the person who wrote the blog.

So get this…

Posted by Pamala on Jan 16th, 2009 in School | Comments Off

: Image by harold.lloyd (bigging up the bliss) via Flickr

I’m so glad school is over because I’m tired of requirements being applied to projects that were no where to be found in he directions or on the syllabus. I turned in my final project and should have gotten 100% on it. Instead I get 90% on it because the professor says I forgot to put a cover page on it like the unit 1 directions say. I check unit 1 becuase I don’t remember that at all and believe me I looked and it says “Use this checklist as your cover page.” So now I’m throughly confused because that’s what I did. I check the syllabus it says the same thing. I check the Unit 9 directions and it says the same thing as well. So what am I missing? Apparently some unwritten requirement of her’s although she seems to think it was written down.

So I couldn’t let it pass because that just bothers me when this happens. I copied and pasted all the directions to her and asked her to point out where it said what she thinks it said and to clarify it to me. Me thinks she’s not going to respond. Whatever.

In my Special Needs course I got a 98.9% and in my Career Development course I got a 97.9% (this should have been a 98% as well but not for the fact of that stupid final unspoken requirement).