As week three has come along so fast and the college time for this week is over, I seem to be coming to a stop with my work and not getting as much done as I’d hoped to. Even though I’m not behind (or hope I’m not!) I still feel I didn’t do the amount of work I should have done at college. Especially after the amount of work I did in self-study at the week end, which I’m not saying I couldn’t have done more, but the fact is I feel my work has progressed a lot more over the week end than it has done over these two days at college. Saying that, now in self-study I can start my work moving again, as I’ve found out what to do in the areas I was stuck in and I suppose this means I didn’t waste as much time at college than I’d thought.
Now where into the third week I’m starting to get the hang of filling in the time sheets and finding them a very useful way of planning out my day’s work, but still I need to improve on the times I set myself to do the work in. The time sheets have pointed out one thing to me though, and that is that it takes a lot longer than I’d realised to research on the internet.
The first tutorial meeting I had with Steve, went very well and it helped me understand the work I was unsure about, this was because I had the chance to get some of Steve’s time to myself and ask all the questions I needed to, so I could get back on the right track and continue with the work.
With the test emails Steve sent out on Friday, I ended up wasting a nights worth of planned assignment work on trying to reply to his email. This is because I sent a test email to myself and the “From Tag” was not properly formatted. Even though I had previously changed it, it then took me most of the night to figure out why it hadn’t worked, but in the end I had to surrender and send the email as it was.
When Monday came and Steve said he was disappointed with the email reply’s he’d received, I was anxious at what he might say to me, but in the tutorial meeting we looked at the email and he said it was fine with the “From Tag” properly formatted, I was so relieved. This left me wondering how bad is AOL (America Online) really? Since I was sending it to my AOL email address.
The main problems I’m having at the moment are how to write out the delivery requirements; I know how to format it but actually writing it down bewilders me. Especially the technological side, as I’m still not sure about which scripting versions are needed. I’ve made a start on them and should hopefully have it done before next lesson, but whether it’s right or not is a different matter.
AOL is very bad, very very bad!
Well as I don’t pay for the Internet connection, it looks like I’m stuck with AOL for a while!
Better than nothing, nice to see that people seem to be having the same trouble getting work done in the time in college, i have recantly descovered my self that i seam to get more done in home study, however at home i dont have the freedom to ask questions if im stuck.