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So, today was my first day of becoming a studenty type again. Whee!
And here are the challenges that faced me today...
We start with the merging of two unrelated concepts. The first is 7:43am, which I've heard of a few times but have seen little actual evidence of. The second is a bus. When you put them together, bad things happen - those bad things being that I'm sleepy and unimpressed for half the morning.
7:30/bus? OTP
Then, we come to my next puzzle for the day: A door that refuses to open. I try pushing on it. I try pulling it toward me. Someone inside has a shot at helping with it, but no dice. So, I find a way around and get inside.
About a minute later, someone else comes along and hey, presto, pulls the door open without any kind of problem.
Problem the third was that these people seem to think tea can be made in a foam cup. I'm fairly sure no further commentary is needed there.
And then things went well. There was an informationy-orientation-thingy, which must've been good because I remember there being lots of Powerpoint slides.
So, yey. Actual learning starts on Monday.
And here are the challenges that faced me today...
We start with the merging of two unrelated concepts. The first is 7:43am, which I've heard of a few times but have seen little actual evidence of. The second is a bus. When you put them together, bad things happen - those bad things being that I'm sleepy and unimpressed for half the morning.
7:30/bus? OTP
Then, we come to my next puzzle for the day: A door that refuses to open. I try pushing on it. I try pulling it toward me. Someone inside has a shot at helping with it, but no dice. So, I find a way around and get inside.
About a minute later, someone else comes along and hey, presto, pulls the door open without any kind of problem.
Problem the third was that these people seem to think tea can be made in a foam cup. I'm fairly sure no further commentary is needed there.
And then things went well. There was an informationy-orientation-thingy, which must've been good because I remember there being lots of Powerpoint slides.
So, yey. Actual learning starts on Monday.
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Date: 2006-02-10 04:58 am (UTC)The majority of my lectures were on fancy computer projection Powerpoint thingys on Macs. The Psychology lecturers were the least technologically-capable. The other lectures used transparencies on a slide projector. One lecture used a lecturer who liked to dress up as Indiana Jones and dance on tables to songs by Hunters and Collectors, not necessarily at the same time.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:09 am (UTC)My favourite lecturer was our robotics lecturer, who was actually a judge on Robot Wars. His example of using feedback from dual sensors was a robot that he originally made to chase his children around the house if they got up and moved from where he'd left them. Very strange man.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:11 am (UTC)That's not exactly a good quality in a comp sci teacher at all!
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-10 05:15 am (UTC)I remember my lectures from the degrees I failed reasonably well. The IT department obsessibely used OpenOffice.org Impress for their slideshows, to show exactly how Linuxy and open-source they were.
Except one. He used a Mac. I didn't like him much.
My classics lectures had a single overhead each - one page of technical terms and spellings, so that everyone knew how to spell things.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:16 am (UTC)