The class really seemed to drag today and it was probably more me than you as the cause. I started to get a sore throat later in the afternoon and have been a bit sleep deprived ahead of time because of my shoulder. I hope the sore throat and sleeplessness will pass and that my energy level is higher on Wednesday.
This is the link to the Arthur Okun essay I mentioned. On campus, it should just work, off campus you need to use VPN for access. I think it is an excellent read and it might help you out now, although it dates from 1980. Many of you are going on the job market in the not too distant future and you will start to ask yourself what it is that you want in the job, apart from the salary. Thinking of the job as an implicit contract might help you to frame what you should be asking during the interviews (and what answers you should be providing to the recruiter's questions.) It might also help you to reflect on whether you are ready to make a long term commitment to a job. (Perhaps you aren't. I definitely wasn't when I graduated, which was a big reason for going to grad school.) In any event, I like that essay a lot, so perhaps you will like it too.
Let me switch gears and talk about technology. One of the disadvantages with the approach I'm taking is that I don't have a campus Google account (they haven't given those to faculty yet) so I can't try things from the perspective of somebody who has one. The prof.arvan account is a regular gmail account, not affiliated with the university. If you use a private gmail I don't believe you should run into any technical problems. (I do believe in Murphy's Law and The Jinx, so I probably shouldn't have written that prior sentence.) I also believe in learning by doing and in passing along work-arounds to problems. So if you have some technology glitch and solve it, please post about it, either on your own blog or as a comment here. Think of doing so as providing a favor to me and your classmates.
I downloaded the new excel, and I read your post on the class website about how to download the file. Still, somehow, I can't manage to figure it out. I don't know if I'm missing something obvious or if something is actually wrong! Every time I try to click on the link it says I don't have access. I know you posted about that, but I simply cannot click on the file without it taking me to a sign-in page, and if I sign it I'm not allowed. If i dont click on the actual file link, I still cannot find anything in the file menu that says download. I will keep trying until 11pm and I will come in early or stay after class tomorrow if I still cannot figure it out.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the inconvenience.
Kelly Bishop