The semester's winding down
Dec. 7th, 2006 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshAha! One more assignment done and that much closer to the end of the semester! Aside from the Archives class, with the big paper that makes up pretty much the entire grade for the semester, I'm feeling pretty good. I think there's a decent chance of actually getting As in at least a few of the classes, so yay! Having said that, I will just be happy if I get acceptable Bs in all of the classes - anything lower and I'll have to take the class over again and that would not be good.
Today's class was cancelled, which I only found out about after braving the wintry weather - driving snow with a windchill somewhere around 6F (way cold). Not exactly what my cold needed but I would have had to go onto campus anyway. Tomorrow is the last day to register without paying a late fee, and I wouldn't be me if I hadn't procrastinated. I was feeling pretty lame about being so late until I saw the stack of other registration forms on the desk. So now I'm all registered for the spring. All of my spring classes are specific to the Archives track, no general library classes at all. Two with Richard Cox and two with Karen Gracy. I was very relieved, earlier this week, to learn that neither of the Cox classes will have the One Paper to Rule Them All to base our grades on. It's just too much stress and way too much chance to blow it big time.
Tonight I need to learn how to make a chart so that I can send it off to my partner for the poster presentation we have due this coming Monday. Then I have to come up with a handout to go with the poster (which my partner is putting together). After that, all I have left is a kind of silly activity in Preservation and my final in IT.
The silly thing in Preservation is a group project. Yesterday we were split into groups and told that we needed to make a Preservation Plan for some organization or institution that we also needed to make up (complete with a well-described collection). We had 45 minutes to create the institution, it's mission statement, describe the size, condition, and insurance value of the collection (which we had to do off the tops of our heads) and then come up with some sort of preservation plan for this organization/collection. Then each group had to present their Plan to a 'board,' the members of which were one of the other groups. That board then had to decide whether to approve the plan or not.
We were told last week that we shouldn't worry about this group project, that as long as we participated we'd get full credit for it, and that it was just about as much fun as you could have while in school. Clearly, Preservation Lady has a strange idea of fun because I don't think anyone in the class got any sort of enjoyment out of the stress of having to come up with such a massive thing in 45 minutes and then be forced to go in front of the entire class knowing you were ill-prepared. *sigh*
Our presentation went okay. We were a little unfocused in what our goals were and so we ended up having two different things mashed together, which our board called us on, but they did approve at least part of our plan, so we came out ahead. We ran out of time before it was our turn to be the board for another group. That's the part that I'm stressing out about more. Each member of the board has to come up with at least one question for the group doing the presenting and I'm not one for coming up with questions on the spot. So I'm a little bit afraid that when the time comes I won't have anything. Oh well, I'm not going to give it much thought between now and then, since I can't do anything about it.
That turned out to be rather more blather than I was expecting so I've spared you all by hiding it away.
We didn't get the two inches the weather people were calling for, but we got enough that the ground is white and it looked very pretty, indeed, before it got too dark out to see anything.
Edit: I've just pre-ordered Stargate: Atlantis season two on DVD. *g* It should arrive just in time to be a slightly belated birthday present to myself. It's ridiculous that they made us wait so long for it, since they've been releasing it a volume at a time in the U.K. since April, but I'll take what I can get.
Today's class was cancelled, which I only found out about after braving the wintry weather - driving snow with a windchill somewhere around 6F (way cold). Not exactly what my cold needed but I would have had to go onto campus anyway. Tomorrow is the last day to register without paying a late fee, and I wouldn't be me if I hadn't procrastinated. I was feeling pretty lame about being so late until I saw the stack of other registration forms on the desk. So now I'm all registered for the spring. All of my spring classes are specific to the Archives track, no general library classes at all. Two with Richard Cox and two with Karen Gracy. I was very relieved, earlier this week, to learn that neither of the Cox classes will have the One Paper to Rule Them All to base our grades on. It's just too much stress and way too much chance to blow it big time.
Tonight I need to learn how to make a chart so that I can send it off to my partner for the poster presentation we have due this coming Monday. Then I have to come up with a handout to go with the poster (which my partner is putting together). After that, all I have left is a kind of silly activity in Preservation and my final in IT.
The silly thing in Preservation is a group project. Yesterday we were split into groups and told that we needed to make a Preservation Plan for some organization or institution that we also needed to make up (complete with a well-described collection). We had 45 minutes to create the institution, it's mission statement, describe the size, condition, and insurance value of the collection (which we had to do off the tops of our heads) and then come up with some sort of preservation plan for this organization/collection. Then each group had to present their Plan to a 'board,' the members of which were one of the other groups. That board then had to decide whether to approve the plan or not.
We were told last week that we shouldn't worry about this group project, that as long as we participated we'd get full credit for it, and that it was just about as much fun as you could have while in school. Clearly, Preservation Lady has a strange idea of fun because I don't think anyone in the class got any sort of enjoyment out of the stress of having to come up with such a massive thing in 45 minutes and then be forced to go in front of the entire class knowing you were ill-prepared. *sigh*
Our presentation went okay. We were a little unfocused in what our goals were and so we ended up having two different things mashed together, which our board called us on, but they did approve at least part of our plan, so we came out ahead. We ran out of time before it was our turn to be the board for another group. That's the part that I'm stressing out about more. Each member of the board has to come up with at least one question for the group doing the presenting and I'm not one for coming up with questions on the spot. So I'm a little bit afraid that when the time comes I won't have anything. Oh well, I'm not going to give it much thought between now and then, since I can't do anything about it.
That turned out to be rather more blather than I was expecting so I've spared you all by hiding it away.
We didn't get the two inches the weather people were calling for, but we got enough that the ground is white and it looked very pretty, indeed, before it got too dark out to see anything.
Edit: I've just pre-ordered Stargate: Atlantis season two on DVD. *g* It should arrive just in time to be a slightly belated birthday present to myself. It's ridiculous that they made us wait so long for it, since they've been releasing it a volume at a time in the U.K. since April, but I'll take what I can get.
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Date: 2006-12-07 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 04:15 pm (UTC)Is your group doing a power point poster? If so, one way to make a simple handout is to print it out as a single slide. This makes for a handout that only people who can read very tiny print or who have a magnifying glass can read. But it is a handout!