Wow, that ePrints assignment was sorta rough. I'm glad that's finished. I don't have much to report otherwise. Started reading "Linked" and I'm finding it pretty interesting. That's all for now!

I'm bummed I missed the video chat yesterday. I attended one and it was pretty helpful. Also, it looks like this eprints business is giving everyone a difficult time. That's very disappointing.

I still don't have grades for MLIS 2600. :( I'm starting to kind of panic a little. Has Dr. Tomer not been receiving my assignments? Do they not merit a grade?

I'm sure an email or two will clear it all up.

I'm extremely nervous about the HTML stuff we'll be doing next. I never quite got the hang of it. Oh well, guess there's no time like the present!

Admittedly, I didn't fully understand the article about the semantic web. It seems that as the course progresses, things are getting more difficult for me to comprehend, which is arguably the way it should be since it is a master's program and I'm studying things I've never studied before. I just hope that I'll be successful in the completion of this program. I know I'm probably getting ahead of myself and I should just worry about the courses that I'm in right now, but it is my nature to worry.

1500 words doesn't seem like much, but let me tell you... that was probably one of the more difficult papers I've had to write. I feel like I didn't fully understand the texts. I have had to write a 10 pager on the economics of the hybrid car industry but that seemed to be a breeze by comparison.

Oh well. As my friends keep telling me, "It is what it is." I'm not saying that I'm slacking off or that I'm not giving 100% of my efforts. However I've decided that I'm going to stop worrying about things so much and just let things happen as they happen.

At least that paper is good and done and now I can relax and crochet a little! :)

I'm having one heck of a time thinking of ideas for this paper. I guess I'm just struggling to figure out what I want to say and how to best go about my ideas. I have some notes that I always type out as a guideline to get me started, but I always seem to find them out of order. Maybe I just need a more focused train of thought.

After much playing (for about 3 hours) that's the best size I can get my presentation at. :( I'm not really satisfied with it, but I don't really know how much more I can shrink 'er down. I hope that it's okay.

Zotero/Jing

Here goes nothing!

I do not like the book Scholarship in the Digital Age. The topic itself isn't too bad. However the extensive citations in every paragraph made it difficult for me to get into a reading 'groove' because I constantly had to skip over them.

I don't really have much else to report at the moment. In the process of finishing my Jing project so that should be posted by tomorrow.

It was really neat to have that chat session with Dr. Tomer on Sunday. It helped clarify quite a bit of things that I had questions about. I hope to be able to finish all my readings and my Jing assignment by Friday. I'm quite ambitious but I think that if I really stick to my guns it could happen.

I am really feeling I'm getting the hang of school online. I've been taking things a week at a time and I don't feel nearly as overwhelmed as I did in the beginning. However, this next week will prove to be a bit challenging as we have 3 books to read and a 1500 word paper to write by next Sunday. I'd better go get started!

2600 grades?

I have not received any grades yet for MLIS 2600. I read on the dB that some people haven't received their grades for the first two assignments, but I haven't gotten any at all so I'm beginning to worry. I hope that Dr. Tomer got my work. I'll probably be spending the rest of the evening reading Scholarship in the Digital Age. I've gotten to page 7 so far. I hope to finish it tomorrow so I can start on Glut.

I finished my WorldCat assignment today, which was surprisingly easy. The only thing left to do this week is finish my Double Fold paper, which I will have all day to finish tomorrow. I may begin to work on it tonight... after the Penguins game.

Aside from some homework that needs done, it's been a lovely day. Even though this is a MLIS blog, I just wanted to share that I went to the zoo today and had a lot of fun! :)

On another note, I'm not looking forward to the next larger writing assignment on the three books. I don't think I can read that fast! I hope that I'll be able to put a sizable dent in them this week.

Well I finished Double Fold the other day. It seems to get a little repetitive after about the first half of the book but that's alright. Gonna finish up my homework tonight and get it posted by tomorrow. :)

I've been slacking a little this week. Homework that I've been meaning to get done has given way to sleep. I supposed I needed the sleep, but I sort of feel bad for putting off my assignments for it. However, today is my day off so I hope to at least finish Double Fold and watch the rest of the lectures for this week. Tomorrow I'd like to finish my WorldCat assignment and then start the Double Fold paper.

Back to reading!