Can you say drivel?1 I totally didn’t say anything I meant here, but I had to fulfill the stupid requirements for the assignments. I really just didn’t care, so I spit out these generic, lame assignments and expect a mediocre grade.
Well, classes started back up at the beginning of this week on Monday, but I’m just now getting into the one class I’m taking this semester because of some tardy enrollment paperwork and fees I didn’t know about.
This semester, I’ll only be taking two classes due to the impending arrival of Daughter #2 early next month. I didn’t want to be swamped with homework when she was born, so I decided to cut my course load. The way AIO divides its semesters, this schedule means only one class at a time, which is easily manageable.
So, I’m taking IMD 121. I can’t remember offhand what the course for the next half of this semester is, but I’ll inevitably post it here eventually. It’ll even have its own category.
Anyway, assignments to follow.
Well, finals are over. I have the next few weeks off before the winter ‘07 semester begins. I survived the first semester, and actually managed to get pretty good grades.
In Strategies for Online Learning—which was, I think, the dumbest class I’ve ever taken—I received a 91.84%, a solid A minus, with 349 of a possible 380 points. I can’t remember dreading homework as much as in this class. I think I even enjoyed high school biology more (and I didn’t like high school biology at all).
I fared slightly better in History of Popular Culture, with a 94.27%—329 of 349 possible points. I think I should actually have 10 points more than that, and I am contesting my grade. The instructor graded the final assignments before the end of the 24-hour school day and before I turned my assignment in. She gave me a zero for the 10-point assignment. So, if I were given full credit for that assignment, my final grade in the class would be 97.13%, with 339 of 349 possible points.
After noticing that a few of my headlines on this site were inconsistent with others, I decided to use exclusively glossary.html">downstyle headlines, “[a] headline style that capitalizes only the first word and proper nouns.”
This style makes sense to me. While it may not be as sensational, it is clearer and more easily understood.
Downstyle contrasts capitalizing every word in a headline, not just the first word and proper nouns. An example of this can be seen on the News-Miner’s Web site in the “Associated Press national headlines” box in the right sidebar.
I’ve made a few more changes to this site, all in the sidebar:
I’ve installed the Ubernyms plugin, written by Joel Bennett. Its addition to the blog will make posts more readable, both to humans and computers.
The purpose of ubernyms is to allow you configure a set of frequently used abbreviations that will be automatically encoded nicely whenever you use them. The goal is to make them visible in a way that is literate for both humans and computers. In other words: we tag them appropriately for your computer, and expand them as necessary for humans.
I’ve only added two custom acronyms: AIO, for the art school I am attending; UAF, where I attended previously. I’ll probably add more as I use them. If you hover your cursor over the acronyms, you will get more information about them. If I set it up, you can even click on certain ones, such as the two above.
It can do more than just acronyms, but I think that’s all I will use it for.
I’ve increased the size of the main column font. I think it’s easier to read this way. Thoughts? Anyone?
I just installed a footnotes plugin1. With some practice using it, I think it will be a useful addition to my schoolwork. There should be a footnote at the bottom of this post.
I originally reported that my degree required 150 credits. I was wrong. I found out yesterday that it is 180! That’s a whole ‘nother year! Uggh.
My financial plan shows me taking classes through the spring semester of 2010. It won’t take that long because I have some transfer credits and will hopefully be able to get 45 “life” credits from all the work I’ve done over the past few years at the News-Miner.
So, with 24 credits transfered from UAF and 45 life credits from past experience, that totals 69 credits before I start taking classes. Let’s see, 180 credits for the whole program minus the 69 credits I could potentially start with equals 111 credits remaining. I can also subtract this semester’s 7 credits. So that gets me to 104 credits after this semester is over. At 13 credits per semester, I could knock out 104 credits in exactly 8 semesters.
AIO offers four semesters annually: fall, winter, spring, and summer. So, since I’ve discounted this semester and will start those 8 semesters next semester, I’ll have to attend classes:
Realistically, I probably won’t qualify for all 45 potential life credits available, so I might have to take another semester. That would mean I would graduate sometime in the winter semester—January or February—of 2009. That sure seems a long way off, but really it’s only two years for a four-year degree.
Because I was able to transfer 24 credits from UAF, 16% of my 150-credit degree is already completed. Combine that with up to 25% of my degree for life credit, and 41% of my degree will have been completed.
If these assumptions are correct, I should complete my degree during the spring semester of 2009.
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