I don't want to whine about the whole "working from home" thing, as I know there are millions of people out there who'd love to have spent the last six months in their pyjamas, but really, there's only so many more days of pressing send & receive and scratching my arse that I can take.
But I finally start the MA in Film Production tomorrow, and it'll be a 7km cycle to college for a day packed with lectures and the student bar. I've been counting down the hours to this since forever, and yesterday I went out to shop for exciting things like pencil cases, and those little polo-shaped stickers that stop the paper tearing in your ring-binder. I love stationery shops, and I'm pretty sure they were what made me want to be a graphic designer when I was a kid: while everybody else dreamt of dull professions like the fire-service or NASA, I pictured myself sitting at a drawing board with a set-square and a pile of Letraset.
But this is 2007, am I really going to need all this paper shit? Doesn't everybody just take notes on their laptops these days? It's been six years since I was in college and I'm not sure what the protocol is. But I do know that if I get out my shiny white MacBook and everybody else gets out their retractable pencils, I'm just going to feel like an arse.
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Jesus Annie don't do it I fully understand the temptation as I found myself in that same position last year finishing my Masters at night but no people look at you like you’re a gimp. I took notes short hand, then made proper notes when I went home that evening, helped me to remember, I guess. Just wait to see what everyone else has first, I did a very traditional course maybe yours will be different besides do you not want one of those new Transformers notebooks!
ReplyDeleteWith you on the stationary! Although I don't tell many people. The stationary floor in Easons gives me palpitations. Though I can never find anything I actually need.
ReplyDeleteI was in college last year with a load of youngsters last year. A lot of people took notes by hand (including me), a lot of people took notes on laptops. A lot didn't bother at all.
Your biggest worry in the lecture hall is staying awake though. I found it impossible. I was like grandpa drolloing and snoring in front of the TV 10 minutes into every lecture.
Good luck!.
Thanks guys. I'm going to take my lappy with me just in case. But I'm such a loud typer (I kind of BANG the keys, with two fingers) that I'll probably "disrupt the class".
ReplyDeleteIt was Easons I went to for my Transformer pencil case, I love it there too. I might have seen you there, palpitating over the highlighter pens.
I study film theory and there's only one girl who has her lap top.. and, yep you can really hear her typing. Although, most of the notes are posted on the web, so you're not meant to need to take lots more notes, but they're handy keep everything in context (and to remember which points seem really important to the lecturers)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your first day, I can't wait to read about it!
Hiya, you are planning to actually turn up for lectures?! That will make you look a complete arse no matter if you take your notes down on a slate.
ReplyDeleteAt least that was how it was when I went to uni (mumble) years ago. Maybe it's all changed now and student bars throughout the land and still and empty as thousands of students bang out their lecture notes on their shiny new laptops. And if that's the case, you won't look like an arse with yours, AND they'll be no queues for a pint! Result.
Good luck with your first day, have you got an apple for your tutor?
I actually plan on going to every single lecture and being the student from hell. Everybody is going to hate me. I'm going to write my essays the night they're assigned and see all the films on the watch-list and read all the books etc. Pfft, it's costing enough money.
ReplyDeleteIt's still so wierd to see you as Emma "Williams". I had no idea who you were at first in my last post, especially when you said that you knew Bjarni. I was like, Bjarni knows somebody called "Williams"?!
ReplyDeleteHope married life is treating you well.
xxxx
Ye have a Transformers pencil case???
ReplyDeleteI be understandin' now why ye did nae want to show me yer day's plunder when I got home last night!
Wench!
The plank!
ReplyDeleteIn my experience about 40% laptop 60% pen/cil. Good luck.
"I love stationery shops"
ReplyDeleteLove them, love them, love them... even today!
Tsk. Bloody stuuuuudents.... (Very, very, envious, really.)
ReplyDeleteHave fun!
I can't think that getting a Macbook out in a lecture hall would make you look bad - unless perhaps it was full of linux uber-geeks.
ReplyDeleteLinux uber-geeks... I have one of those at home.
ReplyDeleteDon't take your laptop. You'll end up leaving it in a corner of the student bar and losing it.
ReplyDeleteYup, Im another stationery lover. I used to collect different types of paper as a child.
ReplyDeleteMoving swiftly on...
I love the start of the new school year cos I have an excuse to take the kids to buy new stationery.
Good Luck with the course Annie x
Try taking notes through osmosis: just sleep through class with the idea that the words of the lecturer will be imprinted into your brain waves.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember to lock yer bike up.
ReplyDeleteI start work as as Rekjavík's happiest gardener.
And i'm gonna be a dad.
Missed you x
p.s. Wait at least a few days before you start suggesting improvements to the lecturer's re: their techniques, content etc.
Oooh stationery!! I'm so jealous, now I need an excuse to buy stationery!
ReplyDelete"+s" = my cat typing. It's meant to be "Sarah".
ReplyDeleteMy M.Sc. was in them computering things and all lectures and labs took place in the same room which was kitted out with hardware. But every single lecturer banned the use of keyboards while they were speaking because a) the noise and b) the fact that students got distracted by new mails etc.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, enjoy today. Have a great time. And report back post haste.
When I went back to doing some proper journalisty stuff a few months ago, I made notes in a funky little looseleaf book (with a quote by Mao on the front). Everybody said it made a nice change from bloody Dictaphones, which whir annoyingly in the background.
ReplyDeleteSo write it down. But write it down in something nice.
Going back to school is so exciting! Watching so many people around me going back or starting anew starts the blood pumping and then I wish I was doing it, too! Have a great 1st day, Annie!
ReplyDeleteOooh, I'm so jealous, Annie. You're going to have a ball.
ReplyDeleteI think that writing things down actually helps you to remember them. Or something.
Maybe take the pencils for the first week.
Looking forward to reading your blogs on uni. It seems there are a lot of us nostalgic for it, maybe you'll help dispell that...or encourage mass 'mature student' applications next september. best of luck.
ReplyDeleteI too love stationery stores, though I'm always surprised how much all those tempting little notebooks cost. I think I got it ingrained in my mind as a child that paper products should be essentially free. So whenever I go into one of those boutiquey places with all the gorgeous stuff (that I'd probably not use much anyway, as I'm not in school) I just about faint at the cost. I usually end up buying a plain ugly notebook at the drugstore. But I still love poking around anyway.
ReplyDeleteThanks all for your words of wisdom and support. I didn't take my lap top in the end, and didn't need it.
ReplyDeleteIt was such a great day, and I am SO happy that I made this decision. Huzzah.
Office supple shopping is my favorite part of back to school as well. Staples is like my crack house. Surprisingly though, even in this day of nano technology, few people at my undergraduate/graduate college take notes on laptops. Most bust out a trusty notebook and regular blue pens. I feel like those with laptops are judged too... dorky, overly ambitious, pompous... you know.
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