BCIT maybe-difficulties, etc
Oct. 6th, 2023 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishMapping is in fact getting more complicated; this week was calculating traverses. "Here's a known point; here's an angle and distance to a second, and from there to a third, etc etc; calculate the xy coordinates of all those points." It's, again, just plugging in numbers, but there's some amount of knowing which numbers to plug in where to get your angles pointed the right way. Plus it's in degrees/minutes/seconds which are just annoying to calculate with.
I am somewhat nervous about it. Partly this is just because the instructor does homework in the form of a "quiz" for easier grading, so it feels heavier. Partly it's because while I think I got it right I don't know, and the angle-finding process was complicated enough that I may have messed up something fundamental.
Learning experience, I guess.
The lecture plus homework took me probably six hours, with some breaks in there for lunch and to reset my brain and such. A little unreasonable, I guess, but not much. Does mean that taking classes while working fulltime is in fact gonna be a big lift.
Which might be a problem because I emailed BCIT saying "i see that registration opens up in a few weeks, these are the classes i'm looking to take, anything i need to do and how do i sort out payment if i'm getting student loans" and got back "all these classes have prereqs that you haven't passed yet, i'll have to talk to someone else to see what we can do." I've not passed them for the good reason that I'm currently taking them. It did not occur to me that they would block registration if the prereqs weren't completed, and in fact their "suggested schedule" implies that they won't, it "suggests" doing exactly that. Here's hoping that the "Interim Program Assistant" who replied to me just doesn't know what she's doing. Annoyingly I won't find out until Tuesday at the earliest, so I get to worry about it through the weekend.
I might soon have a primary care physician for the first time in years? I put myself on a waiting list when I moved here, and an opening has appeared. It's for a nurse practitioner rather than an MD; I have no idea how much difference that makes. But it's certainly better than not having a PCP. Especially since I am approaching the Maintenance Phase of my lifespan.
The Dessa concert in Seattle that was supposed to be last night got cancelled due to illness (hers). So I'm planning to go down to Bellingham tomorrow instead. I need to do some grocery shopping (it's pumpkin season), and it's supposed to be a glorious fall day out there.
I'm doing a little better, but not as much so as I'd like. Will see how I do this coming week.
I am somewhat nervous about it. Partly this is just because the instructor does homework in the form of a "quiz" for easier grading, so it feels heavier. Partly it's because while I think I got it right I don't know, and the angle-finding process was complicated enough that I may have messed up something fundamental.
Learning experience, I guess.
The lecture plus homework took me probably six hours, with some breaks in there for lunch and to reset my brain and such. A little unreasonable, I guess, but not much. Does mean that taking classes while working fulltime is in fact gonna be a big lift.
Which might be a problem because I emailed BCIT saying "i see that registration opens up in a few weeks, these are the classes i'm looking to take, anything i need to do and how do i sort out payment if i'm getting student loans" and got back "all these classes have prereqs that you haven't passed yet, i'll have to talk to someone else to see what we can do." I've not passed them for the good reason that I'm currently taking them. It did not occur to me that they would block registration if the prereqs weren't completed, and in fact their "suggested schedule" implies that they won't, it "suggests" doing exactly that. Here's hoping that the "Interim Program Assistant" who replied to me just doesn't know what she's doing. Annoyingly I won't find out until Tuesday at the earliest, so I get to worry about it through the weekend.
I might soon have a primary care physician for the first time in years? I put myself on a waiting list when I moved here, and an opening has appeared. It's for a nurse practitioner rather than an MD; I have no idea how much difference that makes. But it's certainly better than not having a PCP. Especially since I am approaching the Maintenance Phase of my lifespan.
The Dessa concert in Seattle that was supposed to be last night got cancelled due to illness (hers). So I'm planning to go down to Bellingham tomorrow instead. I need to do some grocery shopping (it's pumpkin season), and it's supposed to be a glorious fall day out there.
I'm doing a little better, but not as much so as I'd like. Will see how I do this coming week.