Firstly, I'm now 20.
If there's one thing that gets me annoyed enough to look down on someone and make that funny "Hmmmm" noise, that I learnt off my sister when I did something that embarrassed her (See: Previous 19 years of my existance.) , it's people who say "x years young" as if being that age is a bad thing. As I enter my 7,305th day on this planet it's made me realise that I've stuffed the majority of them up (I mean, the first several hundred I'm not proud of at all.). But that's the fantastic thing about age. The more you live. The more you see the more you know. I believe the word adults use is 'mature,' when humans use their prior knowledge to benefit their current situation. It's brilliant to be old. Okay, my heart may have only beat roughly 631,138519 times, so it's still pretty fit (And I've eaten a high fat diet, to make it strong by having to push round lots of cholesterol.), but I have experienced so little (What do you mean "That's not how a healthy heart works" ?).
Age = Experience. Be proud of how old you are. Whether you are 7, or 5.089*e*7, you should be proud that you know more than you did last birthday.
Oh I also hate when people say "Have a great day." Seriously. I have 364 other days to live until my next birthday. You're limiting me to ONE GOOD DAY in that time?!
"Damn, did as much work as I did on Wednesday."
"Yeah, but it's okay cause it's your birthday"
"Yeah, but there's still work to do"
"GTFO. You're doing nothing and that's final"
Brain Wins!
And now, onto today's topic, some assistance for new students.
Lecturer's. They're people too.
Take a look at this man.
Let us pretend, for arguments sake that he is a lecturer. And that he totally doesn't have a Facebook page. And that he's totally not going fail me next semester for using his face without his permission.
There we go, that's better.
Anyway, rudeness to the most awesome (and tolerant.) lecturer I've had so far at Murdoch aside, lecturers, lab technicians, tutors. All there to help you, each one is different so will like being contacted in different ways. Some will like being asked straight after a lecture or a lab
(But most will have another class to go to, in 99% of cases, the Tavern.),
some will like a face to face booking in their office
(Searching their name in the Murdoch search engine will normally bring back enough details to find them or telephone them. Searching for my name, however, brings up results on anatomy, algae and 'Sudden Death.' (I didn't know that my personal life was kept on Murdoch servers...))
Some will like an email though LMS.
(Learning Management System, which are a set of editable pages that each unit have access to, these include (but are selected by unit co-ordinators for what features actually are available for each unit.) Message Boards, Assessments (Usually used for online quizzes and sometimes exams. Both my Introduction to Networking and Wireless Networking, have had their exams through this system the year I participated in those units, they have since swapped back to traditional exams as far as I know. This is coincidence.), Assignments (for traditional assignment submission rather than needing to go to uni at midnight to find a pigeon hole, only to find yourself locked with 30 others who forgot to apply for after hours access.), various other tools for monitoring students behavior (Sadly, I'm serious, there are tools which monitor log ins for how often they access the LMS system, and what they do while they are on there.), an announcement system (A system to enable the unit co-ordinator/lecturer to yell at all the students at once "NO. ASSIGNMENT ONE HAS NOT BEEN MARKED YET. IT WAS DUE YESTERDAY."
And finally, a mail system. Which allows easy searching of all enrolled students, lecturers, lab assistance and unit co-ordinators for easy contact.
Do:
* Use this system rather than the email listed in the campus directory, 99% of the mail sent to the email addresses listed in the campus directory are filtered. i.e. No matter how many times you try they will not receive any emails from any lists you sign them up to. Well, at least it doesn't appear so cause I never got the referrers discount on... never mind.
* Make your email concise and to the point. e.g.
"I do not understand the term "" on slide 23 on the week three lecture"
OR
"Dear Sir/Madame,
FIRE EXCLAMATION MARK FIRE EXCLAMATION MARK HELP ME EXCLAMATION MARK
123 Careden Road
Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Maurece Moss"
DON'T:
* Ask one question an email when you have 3 questions. Over the space of five minutes.
* Do not expect a reply to your email 5 minutes after its sent. At Midnight. On Sunday of the study week. 24 Hours before the assessment is due.
*If there is a message board, don't ask a question that everybody is probably wanting to ask, such as 'Is there a week one tutorial'
*Check ALL announcements
And some lecturers like to be contacted by carrier pidgeon. On discovery this fact apply for an exemption from this unit. Or change out of your arts degree. ZING!
Your lecturers are underpaid to teach you. To pass you. Get your money's worth by making sure you understand a topic while you are learning it. Ask questions during lectures.
Oh and just as a side point, Do not apologise for interrupting their other duties in their life at the beginning of each email. They're lecturer's they have no lives. Well, actually it's just that they are suppose to read your email, so you aren't interrupting them from anything.
Side point 2: If you see your lecturer in public, do not use that as an excuse you should of asked in the tute.
Side point 3:
Dear Student, You have been successfully enrolled as a student in the Class named: ICT362/672 S1 2010
Welcome! Mike Dixon
And now, onto today's topic, some assistance for new students.
Lecturer's. They're people too.
Take a look at this man.
Let us pretend, for arguments sake that he is a lecturer. And that he totally doesn't have a Facebook page. And that he's totally not going fail me next semester for using his face without his permission.
Anyway, rudeness to the most awesome (and tolerant.) lecturer I've had so far at Murdoch aside, lecturers, lab technicians, tutors. All there to help you, each one is different so will like being contacted in different ways. Some will like being asked straight after a lecture or a lab
(But most will have another class to go to, in 99% of cases, the Tavern.),
some will like a face to face booking in their office
(Searching their name in the Murdoch search engine will normally bring back enough details to find them or telephone them. Searching for my name, however, brings up results on anatomy, algae and 'Sudden Death.' (I didn't know that my personal life was kept on Murdoch servers...))
Some will like an email though LMS.
(Learning Management System, which are a set of editable pages that each unit have access to, these include (but are selected by unit co-ordinators for what features actually are available for each unit.) Message Boards, Assessments (Usually used for online quizzes and sometimes exams. Both my Introduction to Networking and Wireless Networking, have had their exams through this system the year I participated in those units, they have since swapped back to traditional exams as far as I know. This is coincidence.), Assignments (for traditional assignment submission rather than needing to go to uni at midnight to find a pigeon hole, only to find yourself locked with 30 others who forgot to apply for after hours access.), various other tools for monitoring students behavior (Sadly, I'm serious, there are tools which monitor log ins for how often they access the LMS system, and what they do while they are on there.), an announcement system (A system to enable the unit co-ordinator/lecturer to yell at all the students at once "NO. ASSIGNMENT ONE HAS NOT BEEN MARKED YET. IT WAS DUE YESTERDAY."
And finally, a mail system. Which allows easy searching of all enrolled students, lecturers, lab assistance and unit co-ordinators for easy contact.
Do:
* Use this system rather than the email listed in the campus directory, 99% of the mail sent to the email addresses listed in the campus directory are filtered. i.e. No matter how many times you try they will not receive any emails from any lists you sign them up to. Well, at least it doesn't appear so cause I never got the referrers discount on... never mind.
* Make your email concise and to the point. e.g.
"I do not understand the term "" on slide 23 on the week three lecture"
OR
"Dear Sir/Madame,
FIRE EXCLAMATION MARK FIRE EXCLAMATION MARK HELP ME EXCLAMATION MARK
123 Careden Road
Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Maurece Moss"
DON'T:
* Ask one question an email when you have 3 questions. Over the space of five minutes.
* Do not expect a reply to your email 5 minutes after its sent. At Midnight. On Sunday of the study week. 24 Hours before the assessment is due.
*If there is a message board, don't ask a question that everybody is probably wanting to ask, such as 'Is there a week one tutorial'
*Check ALL announcements
And some lecturers like to be contacted by carrier pidgeon. On discovery this fact apply for an exemption from this unit. Or change out of your arts degree. ZING!
Your lecturers are underpaid to teach you. To pass you. Get your money's worth by making sure you understand a topic while you are learning it. Ask questions during lectures.
Oh and just as a side point, Do not apologise for interrupting their other duties in their life at the beginning of each email. They're lecturer's they have no lives. Well, actually it's just that they are suppose to read your email, so you aren't interrupting them from anything.
Side point 2: If you see your lecturer in public, do not use that as an excuse you should of asked in the tute.
Side point 3:
Dear Student, You have been successfully enrolled as a student in the Class named: ICT362/672 S1 2010
Welcome! Mike Dixon
Side Point 4: If you do ever find out the 'email all' email, please forward to me, this blog needs more readers
Side Point 5: MITS Lan 12th March (Sean, I've got the idea for the next event, the universities largest simultaneous barrel roll.)
THIRDLY. As an endorsed blogger, assignments are back, next blog "Things I'd Wish I'd Known When I Started Uni" - Expect lots of copy paste.
FOURTHLY
Dear Murdoch Promotions Commitee,
Mr Payne is awesome. Very, VERY awesome.
From, The collective students of ICT102 S1 2008.
FIVETHLY Do you like seakips?
SIXITHLY. Oh WILL YOU JUST HURRY UP AND FINISH.
Eventually. I'm getting to it, see we're up to Graffiti of the Week?
Again, I don't have anything good, so here is a picture of sherbet that I find quite interesting. Send me some people!
Until banned from the network, or removed from Christian Payne's friends list,
Good Bye.
1 comment:
Hey Oldy McOldstein. You write goodly. :)
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