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Sometimes distance ed can be tough. Your prof wants an assignment; your dog wants a walk; your boss wants a project; you find it easier to unload the dishwasher than to determine the value of X and Y. We know this. We also know that not every student is fresh out of high school, living in a dorm and counting the days to reading break. For you, a blog. Tell us what you'd like to see here.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Paper Problems
You can find a hero for any vice. Take Albert Einstien. Turns out the Nobel-prize winning physics guru was also an advocate for messy desks. You’ve heard the maxim, “A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind”? Well, apparently Einstein countered, “If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” Ouch. There is no end to the arguments about the best way to work and study to achieve maximum productivity. Some say that absolute silence, at a desk, is required; others would rather listen to the Motley Crue while lounging on the couch. … Continue reading
Posted in Get Organized
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Overdue
My first serious case of procrastinatus occurred when the frog showed up in my mailbox. I was taking a biology course through distance ed when, along with a heavy textbook and a CD, I received a plastic jar the size of a basketball. It was filled with a murky solution of formaldehyde, and to see what was inside, you had to tilt the jar to the light, revealing a bit of clam shell, a flash of anemic sea worm, a spindly webbed foot. I was struck by the strangeness of this. Whose job it was to pack dead things into jars … Continue reading
Posted in Odd Bits
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