So, it’s been months since my last post. I wasn’t lying then; I really have been in the wars. More so, lately – the day after I wrote that post, I came down with acute allergic conjunctivits, which has since turned into chronic allergic conjunctivitis. My opthalmologist is of little help. The gist is, I [...]

“You’ll have a guest lecturer in week five, from the School of Economics and Finance – he’s really cool.”

What’s wrong with this statement? ;)

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We’ve just been told that we can’t use laptops for our end-of-term Marketing exam, even though it’s an open-book exam. And even though we were told we were required to have access to a laptop for the course.

Sigh. My typing is about three times faster than my handwriting, and a lot more legible. Not to [...]

The last vestiges of resistance towards Switching have evaporated like morning dew.

First I upgrade my Powerbook, and discover that about 75% of the discomfort of my old Powerbook was because it was old and slow. The new machine is lovely.
Then my second PC packs it in – before I’ve even got the first one fixed.
Then [...]

Sitting in the middle of my Business Communications lecture, I notice that the time counter on my iPod (which was supposed to be busy recording the lecture) had stopped ticking over.

The wheel didn’t respond.

When I plugged it into the PowerBook, nothing happened.

Commence panic! This thing had all today’s recorded lectures on it, and I’ve come [...]

It is extremely intellectually frustrating when a lecturer stimulates discussion only to railroad it to make their own point. If they’re purporting to be interested in discussion, they need to allow it to progress dynamically and organically, giving people a chance to talk when an appropriate or interesting point occurs to them (within reason) – [...]

Being back at University has been an interesting experience. It’s the first time in years that I’ve been surrounded by so many people in close proximity. QUT has something like 40,000 students – although obviously not all 40,000 go to this campus – and ever since I left Uni in 97 my social world has [...]

Exams – too many or not enough?

That was the main theme of this afternoon’s (well, yesterday afternoon’s) hack on Triple J. The announcement earlier this week that the federal government wants to introduce national high school exams has naturally provoked a bout of analysis and discussion from education professionals everywhere.

(The Hack link above includes a [...]

My timetable for March-April. I’m pretty impressed…

Note that I only have to go to one lecture per class, although there are two timeslots. So, yeah. 1400-2100 on Monday and Tuesday, and no uni the rest of the week.

Given how late my classes go, I really need to get off my ass and get my driver’s [...]

Everything’s going pretty smoothly … so far.

For the first teaching period (six weeks starting March 7th) I’m enrolled in:

GSN401: Managing in the Global Business Environment GSN407: Business Communication GSN408: Fundamentals of Marketing Management GSN460: Creative Problem Solving
Four three-hour lectures a week, which probably means 2-5 and 6-9 on Mondays and Tuesdays. Then I just [...]

Looking through the course documentation, I see a note that all students will be required to have access to a laptop computer.

Not a problem, I think; I’m planning on upgrading my PowerBook anyway. (The plan: Buy a 12” iBook with a RAM upgrade for about $1700, and sell the PowerBook on eBay – it should [...]

I get home from the doctor’s this afternoon and finally, there’s the long-awaited Big Fat Envelope in my letterbox. I open it, and – yes! I got in!

In other words – four weeks from today, I start my first classes towards a Graduate Certificate of Business Administration. (It’s the first third of an MBA, basically, [...]