Yussss, extensions galore! Had my final reading response for global politics extended a week, so I won't have to do a rush job on it. As if that wasn't enough, I got a 2-week extension for my horrible 15-page historiography paper. It turns out the prof for that class only gave us the deadline as motivation to hand it in early, and we can get it to him as late as the end of the exam period. The only downside is we won't have the chance to re-write it in that case, of course.
I'm also just about done my essay on Nixon(just have to do all the citations), and for once it's actually within the allotted space! I am just killing at this whole university thing. :P
ozoneocean wrote:
Hippie, if you do get money for a device, a Nexus branded tablet is a good choice- generally nice simple design, a customisable frequently updated OS that's secure and yet doen't lock you in to one *brand ecosystem, and they're very affordably priced compared to their power and build quality.
*Apple are good but tend to lock you in to ONLY buying Apple, so you haven't got any choice when it comes to shopping for different features or prices. The main benifit of Apple is standardisation and easy servicing (because of all the Apple shops). Nexus tablets are good in that way in that they're the standard model for Andorid and Google itself will service them- still not as simple as going to an apple store though.
Yeah, I love my iPhone but I would want something a little bit more open for a tablet. And something I could draw on, ideally. :)
I have never found going to an Apple store simple, btw…they're almost always like “Yep, can't be fixed and it's your fault. It will cost 17 gajillion dollars for a new one, but we can give you 10% off.”
ozoneocean wrote:
Ahhh, such an anoying company to deal with… they're a big goldmining group and they're very anal with their stupid logo, with a big document hat says you HVAE to only use it according to its rules… But for the things they want it used on the rules ALWAYS have to be broken. So every second fucking job from these idiots involves some dance about the rules VS the actual usuage of their stupid logo.
Idiotically enough, even the masive golden sign on the front of their coprorate head office violates their logo guidelines!
Haha, that sounds awful! It seems like just about every organization goes nuts when they get big enough. I dealt with something kind of similar at my summer job last year. As the office monkey it was often my job to make certificates, memos, etc., which would have been simple enough except that the government department I worked for had “re-branded” seemingly a couple times recently. No one knew which logo/letterhead was the right one, but everyone made certain to tell me that I had to use the “new one.”
kawaii wrote:
As far as computers go, portability and multiple machines is a must. I am currently away from my desktop PC and have been for a few months. I have had to learn to adapt, but oh how do I miss photoshop and my flatbed scanner.
I am super curious now - what program/method do you use to make all the lovely newspost graphics without a scanner or photoshop?