Well, ok, not always.  But I haven't done it in a while and today was my first real shift doing online reference.  Kinda cool to get paid to learn how matches were invented and other stuff like that.

aaaaaaaaaand...so much better than writing schedules :)

Bonus Material:  anybody wishing to read my first essay...
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You know, my homework wouldn't take me forever to do if I wouldn't go out of my way to make it more interesting.

But then, if I chose easy and banal over interesting and hard, it would feel like it was taking forever to do.

:)

In other news, I got a 25 out of 25 on the paper that I had convinced myself completely sucked.  Not because I deserved it, ( Read more... )

So...if my prof wants our first paper to be 500-750 words, how bad is it that mine is currently at 1050, plus illustrations?

Also, only 500-750 words to argue "what are the fundamental problems of Information Retrieval?"  Seriously?  O_o

And yet...we should have will need more sources than just our readings?  Which total 2 and a quarter books? And ( Read more... )