Two weeks after my internship started, I am finally beginning to get the hang of it and feel like I really belong. I show up on the Staff Directory (under Science Libraries – I don’t know where the phone attached to my name is, but I’m sure it’s in the…
Now that I’ve been to all of my classes once–and work a few times–I have some thoughts to post. First off, let me just say, for the sake of any engineers who come to this blog wanting to find out about switching into Library Science, it is wonderful to know,…
For this week, I’m commenting informally and responding to things as I read them. Not “First I will read the article, and then I will post my fully processed thoughts,” but “Hey, that sentence seems worth commenting on. Here’s what I think.” I see some benefit to both approaches, and…
In lecture, Dr. He mentioned that we should post the “Muddiest Point” from each of [at least ten of] his lectures. With 14 or so weeks of class, there is room for us not to post it each week. The first lecture seemed very accessible, and I found very little…
A word of warning: scattered in amongst my other posts will be some assignment-fulfilling text–responses to assigned readings and requests for clarifications of lecture material in my Digital Libraries course, LIS 2670. I’ll try to provide enough context that my normal readers aren’t lost and can find something interesting in…
I used to love the first day of school, as a kid. Not really the second day or onward, mind, but the first was always pretty fun. There I was, with some brand new school gear, meeting up with a bunch of people I hadn’t seen since the end of…
A month from today, I’ll be completing my first week of school. Assuming my schedule doesn’t change when I meet with my advisor, Thursday is going to be my roughest day–actually, you could say it’ll be my only regularly scheduled rough day–with six straight hours of class. This seems unavoidable,…