Oh ya, about yesterday
My battery pack on my lap top decided it didn't want to play fair anymore and so my laptop only sometimes was charging which was very, very alarming. But I went to Future Shop today and they are ordering me a new one. Excellent...hope I get it before I leave or I am in poo.
Administrations....hmmm....throbbing brain can't remember this one...but I think it was important...hmmmmm....oh wait...it's coming back. The course I'm TAing for. This goes hand in hand with the evils of email. The stupid, annoying, though very nice admin peopled didn't send out our welcome letters until two days after we sent them....LATE ON THE DAY STUDENTS HAD TO HAND IN ASSINGMENTS TO THIER TAS....I am so sick of receiving emails to my personal email account from concerned students that I want to throw my computer at the administration at the correspondence office. I mean really, they knew it was a short term. All they had to do was post a message saying not to worry if they didn't get their TAs name and email address until late. Yeesh.....now, that said, on to the next annoyance...the prof of the course put my and the other TAs PERSONAL addresses on the course outline. They shouldn't have even had those. So it's pretty much his fault. ASSHOLE....and when we mentioned it in our meeting he said..."well, students should have your personal email address". WHAT THE ^&^&&*^(*^&*^& for I ask you? Seriously, I could have thrown my computer at him right then and there. That jerk. Uhm....privacy. Uhm major inconvenience..uhm absolutely NO benefit to the student..uhm, absolutely positively a dumb dumb idea.
Ok, done ranting. But seriously, I'm so mad. He probably has this dumb idea that we can't check our course email address as easily as our personal address...which isn't true. And if that's not it, I can't fathom the reasoning at all. Ok, really, done.
This week I started running an eyetracking study and I'm starting to get the hang of it. Felt good. And I realized something neat: I was enjoying running subjects. That never happens to me. But the challenge of setting up the eyetracker properly really got me going. Sweet.
Cellphones..cellphones...memory failure....ah well, until tommorrow.
Administrations....hmmm....throbbing brain can't remember this one...but I think it was important...hmmmmm....oh wait...it's coming back. The course I'm TAing for. This goes hand in hand with the evils of email. The stupid, annoying, though very nice admin peopled didn't send out our welcome letters until two days after we sent them....LATE ON THE DAY STUDENTS HAD TO HAND IN ASSINGMENTS TO THIER TAS....I am so sick of receiving emails to my personal email account from concerned students that I want to throw my computer at the administration at the correspondence office. I mean really, they knew it was a short term. All they had to do was post a message saying not to worry if they didn't get their TAs name and email address until late. Yeesh.....now, that said, on to the next annoyance...the prof of the course put my and the other TAs PERSONAL addresses on the course outline. They shouldn't have even had those. So it's pretty much his fault. ASSHOLE....and when we mentioned it in our meeting he said..."well, students should have your personal email address". WHAT THE ^&^&&*^(*^&*^& for I ask you? Seriously, I could have thrown my computer at him right then and there. That jerk. Uhm....privacy. Uhm major inconvenience..uhm absolutely NO benefit to the student..uhm, absolutely positively a dumb dumb idea.
Ok, done ranting. But seriously, I'm so mad. He probably has this dumb idea that we can't check our course email address as easily as our personal address...which isn't true. And if that's not it, I can't fathom the reasoning at all. Ok, really, done.
This week I started running an eyetracking study and I'm starting to get the hang of it. Felt good. And I realized something neat: I was enjoying running subjects. That never happens to me. But the challenge of setting up the eyetracker properly really got me going. Sweet.
Cellphones..cellphones...memory failure....ah well, until tommorrow.
posted by Camel at 1:23 a.m.
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I'd love to talk all about my research!
Eyetracking is the technology of the minute for psychology, cog psyc., lots of things. It's got some issues, but those are fun too.
Anyway, see my next post....
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