Post for Week of 9/1

Hello everyone.

This is a late post for last week, the second week of this blog.

Class last week was a little different from usual because we only met once in CAP and we did... unconventional... things when we were there. I'm glad that there were activities to expound upon the reading about networking. While I understood the excerpt and why it was written in the style in which it was written, I didn't really feel like the material sunk in until we delved into it in class. The activity with the bowling pins was really interesting and remarkably fun (I'm a nerd... what can I say?). I liked how it felt to get the hang of it, especially after struggling at the beginning. It's cool that something as complex as computers can boil down to something resembling a children's game. I was not as successful with the colored paper activity, though I'm sure I could get the hang of it with practice.

Thursdays class was extremely helpful, and has gotten me pretty excited for our annotated bibliography projects. I used to help in the library at the school where my mom taught and am always amazed by the resources available in libraries. I expect to feel much more confident doing research in general after our special class and look forward to using the library in the next four years.

Until next time,
Z