This week my review on one of my favorite songs was due and it turned out to be much harder to do than I initially thought itd be. The main reason for that was the increased challenge to write about the song objectively, listening to the song for almost a year and a half now its gonna be very hard to change your objective from "This is an extremely poetic and intense song one of the best I've ever heard" to having to read it from the point of view of people who disagree with me and read it as a "BAD" song. Because of that it took me much longer than I thought and I didnt have the time to proofread that I thought I would. Additionally this week I thought I had registered for an exam on examity, partly because the website that I was on "examity" told me that I had registered for an exam on examity.. So Im forced to use the drop that I get this semester in mis on a test I didnt get to take. Morever its been very hard to balance work and social life and I really have to work on that adjustment or I am really gonna regret it.

Life on campus has been pretty hectic thus far. Ive been able to manage mostly through the ability to just text the people I know from back home, but that strategy has been kind of hurting me as soon as its around 10 pm or so here because they get kinda mad at me texting them so late. I didnt really do anything this week and I kind of hate myself for being so boring but also really respect the fact that i put school first and worked on my MIS lab the entire week, and unbeknownst to me i turned it in a day early, when i found out about this and the fact that I could have had about 2 more days to work on it i was pretty pissed off to be honest, and then i remembered the extra credit that came with it and it eased the pain. Coming from the east coast I was at least excited about the first few weeks when I would be able to get a decent amount of sleep and not wake up at 2 pm every day, unfortunately that did not last the first few weeks, two times now i have almost missed my 11:00 am MIS class simply due to a terrible sleep schedule, I understand that thems the breaks when ur living in college and the hardest part is balancing the lifestyles but I thought itd be a longer adjustment. This is my first ever blog post so imma just abruptly stop it right there, I honestly just hope that the teacher can see this cause im not sure where im posting it or if i told him the right address, but if I did and You do see this, thanks for reading i guess.

Why I chose my format of note taking

Im not too particular about the branding or the style of my notes, I feel that if I write things as I would say them then it is much easier for me to memorize the things im writing. The only exception to this is when im copying a definition then I prefer to write exactly as the instructor has it posted as to avoid confusion and to avoid any miscommunications. However, as I do find that it makes it easier to memorize I will add my own twist to the definitions in post, I will ask questions in my own voice I will explain further in my own voice, these are just things I do to remind me of both the topic and the fact that I wrote the notes myself and not just the fact that they are not in my own words. Then during a lecture i like to listen to an entire section of what is said, and usually I just summarize the entire lecture on my own, this is more easily done than copying definitions because through the lecture i find myself better understanding the notes and the things that i need to be listening to in order to process the information. Finally I like to directly copy the professors answers to the questions asked by students and in the example this is a 600 person class so with so many students you are bound to get some redundancies so when i found a question asked was unimportant i would just add on to where it had already been answered.

TYPES OF NOTES

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MIS 111 08/28

Phishing- the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

Spear Phishing-the fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted individuals to reveal confidential information.

Smishing- is a type of phishing attack where mobile phone users receive text messages containing a Web site hyperlink, which, if clicked would download a Trojan horse to the mobile phone.

The excel is the same thing as the e textbook

We are using the e textbook for the lab if the e textbook is invisible you have to allow cookies

The terms and conditions are on D2L not uaccess you have to do them both on the lecture and the regular class

You should have a dif password for everything and use a random password service that he pays for because ppl are tryna steal ur stuff.

They post a rubric to d2l and there is a rubric and if there is an error and that is because you submitted a word document,,, dont call him in a panic just go through the process

If you didnt submit it at all there are partial credit links for 60% of ur original grade

Only accept thru d2l because you can change it but if you dont know how to change it ppl on youtube do so you cant do it because they would tell you nad then youd find out