Notes and such, Week of 01-25-10

Posted by J. on Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Notes and such, Week of 01-18-10

Posted by J. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Notes and such, Week of 01-11-10

Posted by J. on Tuesday, January 12, 2010

New discovery this week; a program called ScrnSpltr for the ipod touch that allows you to use the Ipod screen and an external TV simultaneously, for any application. Unfortunately, it's not officially sanctioned by Apple, so you'll need a jailbroken ipod to download it from Cydia. Apple, if you're listening, this is the primary reason you have so many jailbroken ipods - simply to use the technology we've bought the way we want. After having thrown $170 at you for the Ipod itself and $48 for the dang cable (since you've intentionally broken offbrand AV cables, for no particular reason other than greed), as well as the blessedly reasonable $3 to Mental Case and $20 to Flashcard Exchange, I should darn well be able to do what I want with it. In any case, I anticipate that this will lead to far less time trying to crowd around one screen with the girls while trying to study.

BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-11-10
BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-13-10
BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-15-10
BIO 232 A&P Lecture - Chapter 12 - The Central Nervous System
BIO 232 A&P Lab 2 Flashcards
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Notes, 01-11-10
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Notes, 01-13-10
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Chapter 3 Flashcards

Notes and such, Week of 01-04-10

Posted by J. on Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Time for a new tradition, I think. This term I'm going to try to post notes and links to appropriate flashcards here. A placeholder post will go up on Mondays and will be revised as materials are generated. Just taking advantage of the fact that I seem to work better with accountability, and of course now I'll just be able to pass a link to the blog as a whole whenever I find a new victim that might like to take advantage of these resources.

BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-04-10
BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-06-10
BIO 232 A&P Notes, 01-08-10
BIO 232 A&P Lab 1 Flashcards
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Notes, 01-04-10
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Notes, 01-06-10
BIO 200 Medical Terminology Flashcards, Chapter 1 and 2

Fall finished

Posted by J. on

20091023IMG_7376Just a typical college kid


Fall term has been over for a while now, winter term actually started two days ago and things are back in swing here at OIT. Final grades for the term actually landed slightly above my expectations, two As and two Bs, for a final weighted GPA of 3.46, which actually put me on the dean's list for the term.

Funny thing about that - the day after I got my grades, I got a note that I had been put on academic suspension. Turns out the automated system that minds the store for the financial aid department decided that I was a lazy bum, based on the records it could see. There's a policy in place that students in the pre-MIT category, which I am, have to complete all requirements for acceptance to the program within 6 terms. Pretty generous, actually, as it only takes 3 terms to make up an academic year and it's more than reasonable to kill off the classes within that time. Trouble is, when you're talking about a transfer student (which I also am, since I want credit for all of the stuff I did for my previous degree), the system takes every term you've ever done into consideration for this equation, so I end up looking like I've spent 15 terms dinking around trying to get accepted to the program, instead of only being one term into the effort here at OIT.

Fortunately, this was pretty easy to address once I brought it to the attention of a helpful human. In theory, she has told the system to ignore me in that respect until next fall. I'll be formally applying to the program in late spring, so that should be enough.

Christmas vacation was interesting this year. With Eden in full on market mode for a good portion of the visit, I actually felt a bit impatient after the first week or so, being a bit bored and eager to make more progress towards getting this thing done. Idle fantasy prompts me to wish for a less structured approach that would allow me to put some of my insomnia hours to use. Distance learning would give some of this, but isn't terribly applicable to the current degree. Ah well, guess I'll just have to approach things at a more measured pace.

Once Eden finished with market, I got the chance to drag her to Minnesota to meet nearly all of my relatives, which landed as much more relaxing, since we were at the mercy of everyone else's schedule. Not having to make choices (for a little while) was actually quite nice. I would have preferred a break that landed later in December so that I'd have more free time with her, but it worked out ok.

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