Hoodies & style guides
Three hours 'til Miller's Crossing! :D (I totally haven't been counting down the hours all day. Nope. Not at all. *shifty eyes*) Seriously, the promise of boys in civvies, Rodney in a hoodie with awful pants, double the Hewletty awesomeness, and John hanging out with Madison has carried me through this week. While struggling with the vagaries of APA style citation, boring articles, and a tedious search quiz, I would just think, Miller's Crossing on Friday! I can totally make it 'til then!
So, yah, boring week as I entered round one of finals. I had a search quiz in 650 on Tuesday with 30 questions (and the prof used my "sartorially" question! and, as promised, I giggled :P) to be answered in an hour. I answered 20. No one else seemed to have finished either, and the prof promised a curve since he didn't actually expect us to finish the whole thing. It was open notes and open internet since the questions were based off our group presentations earlier this month, but as it turned out most of the groups gave us handouts that were quite useless when we actually needed to go back to them. So that was rather annoying.
Then I spent the rest of the week fretting over writing a paper using APA style. MLA is, of course, used for most humanities divisions, while APA is used for most of the social sciences (and science?). Since Library & Information Science is a social science, we're supposed to use APA. Actually, I think they use both, but my group figured we'd give APA a stab for future reference. Now, I will freely admit to being an MLA girl, and yeah that's the default in school when you're growing up, but even when I tried to look at APA style objectively it still made NO SENSE to me. MLA is useful, the formatting all makes sense. APA is unnecessarily tedious and seems to take delight in making everything longer than it needs to be. Also, APA requires an in-text parenthetical citation for "personal communications", but wants nothing to do with said personal communications in the list of references at the end of the paper. Um, what? It's a social sciences style, aren't they all about interviews and such? Even MLA includes personal communications in the works cited list. Oh, MLA style, I have much love for your formats and rules that make sense. ♥
Hmm, what to do with myself for the next three hours 'til Miller's Crossing? Well, there is Avatar at 8pm. I feel like I should be more excited about that, since it's the big battle and all, but I'm not. Instead, all my giddy excitement is devoted to hoodies and suits. I've even donned my own hoodie for the occasion. Hee! :)
So, yah, boring week as I entered round one of finals. I had a search quiz in 650 on Tuesday with 30 questions (and the prof used my "sartorially" question! and, as promised, I giggled :P) to be answered in an hour. I answered 20. No one else seemed to have finished either, and the prof promised a curve since he didn't actually expect us to finish the whole thing. It was open notes and open internet since the questions were based off our group presentations earlier this month, but as it turned out most of the groups gave us handouts that were quite useless when we actually needed to go back to them. So that was rather annoying.
Then I spent the rest of the week fretting over writing a paper using APA style. MLA is, of course, used for most humanities divisions, while APA is used for most of the social sciences (and science?). Since Library & Information Science is a social science, we're supposed to use APA. Actually, I think they use both, but my group figured we'd give APA a stab for future reference. Now, I will freely admit to being an MLA girl, and yeah that's the default in school when you're growing up, but even when I tried to look at APA style objectively it still made NO SENSE to me. MLA is useful, the formatting all makes sense. APA is unnecessarily tedious and seems to take delight in making everything longer than it needs to be. Also, APA requires an in-text parenthetical citation for "personal communications", but wants nothing to do with said personal communications in the list of references at the end of the paper. Um, what? It's a social sciences style, aren't they all about interviews and such? Even MLA includes personal communications in the works cited list. Oh, MLA style, I have much love for your formats and rules that make sense. ♥
Hmm, what to do with myself for the next three hours 'til Miller's Crossing? Well, there is Avatar at 8pm. I feel like I should be more excited about that, since it's the big battle and all, but I'm not. Instead, all my giddy excitement is devoted to hoodies and suits. I've even donned my own hoodie for the occasion. Hee! :)