Monday, January 26, 2015

Preparing for semester 2. Again

I've organized my courses before, back when I just started year two. Now at the beginning of the second semester of year three, I need to revisit my plan. I've spent the last six hours making PERT diagrams, listing courses and their prerequisites, marking ones I've already done, marking the semesters they are offered, and weighing the workload of a particular course. At the end of it all, I'm happy to say I can still finish university on time, hopefully with what's left of sanity still in tact.

I have everything listed in an Excel document and colour-coded according to semester. I've marked in red, the prerequisite that are still outstanding. Now I can finally chooses for my courses for this semester without worrying about whether I'll have done enough of the prerequisite courses to .
To be sure I have updated information I had to split my screen between my excel page and the university site. And to stay awake and have some amount of entertainment, I'm watching Leigh-Ann's weekend vlogs. This girl is awesome.

My Excel sheet, University course guide, and watching Leighannsays. Multi-tasking at its best!



The final product. Its good to have a plan (If you follow it!).

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Week 2-get a grip

I'm still tying to get a grip on studying while constantly moving from house to house. Because of the constant movement I haven't really made a timetable although I probably should.
Still, I'm behind by just one week. Its the first week so there's not much to 'catch up' on.  I've been up since 3:00 am so I'm working on going through the orientation and starting the readings for week two.
I don't travel with my laptop so I've been using my cell phone to read my course notes from One Drive. It works well enough but it is a cell phone so the screen is small, which means I'm constantly scrolling as I read. That sound like no big deal but it gets old fast.

I have the pone on my cell tripod with my notebook and a pen. I wanted to print all my notes but I am in no way prepared to spend a small fortune on printing so I have stuck with digital works and a notebook for..., well, notes.

Here's my set up for now
My Temporary Setup
I have my cell phone, notebook and pen on our trusty old desk.