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2nd August 2008

Quick Blogs for 2008-08-02

  • Heading to Owen’s soccer game. Once again it is pouring with rain in Perth today… #
  • At my nephew Tobias’ first birthday party #
  • Chinese dinner for the family at the Treasure Inn tonight. #



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2nd August 2008

Study advice?

Ok time for me to knuckle down and get started studying, before I get too far behind. This is challenging for me in a number of ways :

 

  • never done serious university study whilst working full time and having a family before
  • never studied externally before - seems harder to find out just exactly what I am required to do. There has been little information forthcoming from the uni thus far
  • it’s over 8 years since I’ve been at Uni and the technological landscape has changed considerably. Over the course of my 6 year medical degree in the 90s the internet gradually emerged from being completely non-existent to being a useful, but still quite peripheral, adjunct to our studies. Few students had laptops and they were rarely seen in class.
So in view of the third point especially, does anyone have any advice for me? I sat down this morning to start reading and taking some notes and then wondered if I should actually be putting these notes into my laptop instead of my awful handwriting. Should I be using a simple word processor (eg Word, Pages etc) or is there other software out there which is better suited to study and note taking?? (only Mac software please!)
Of course before I can start I have a crying baby to put to bed, and then I’ll have to prise the boys away from playing games on my MacBook Pro so I can use it (in the next few months I’ll be getting a MacBook Air for study/travel purposes hopefully which will eliminate that issue - so tempted just to order it right now…) Anyway better go - Mia is getting louder - but I’d love to hear anyone’s tips…

 

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