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Aug. 20th, 2014 03:18 pm( Gaeilge )
I think mostly I just need to keep making sentences, there.
Studying Immunology on EdX, and apart from being kind of startled that I already know most of the intro stuff we're going through right now (civil engineering, basic techniques to avoid illness or communicating it, the last two clips had things I didn't know in those particular terms so that wasn't bad) and all I can think is, this is why the new strain of ebola is dangerous. Because it does allow people to get up and move around long enough to transfer it, whereas previously most outbreaks burned themselves out by killing their host/victim within a couple of days. No mobile victim/host, no moving the disease around, not much spread. Now? Hoo boy.
But, okay, apparently it's just the first lesson which is basic immunology stuff that you can learn from common fucking sense. Being sick saps your energy. Wash your goddamn hands. Vaccinations are a good thing, people. Okay, that last might cause a number of people who believe in some whackadoo things to flunk, but you know. Those of us who believe in science as well as other stuff, even if some of those other stuff are pretty whackadoo, will get it. (Look, science hasn't disproved ghosts, either, just that lots of things were not ghosts.)
Still don't know what to do about the CS course other than stick it out and then chew through a couple books and hope it makes sense. Unless I get any less bad at retaining the concepts, or unless my apparent inability to retain the concepts actually was at least partly due to the quizzes being borked. Which may have happened! Between that and my inability to properly input things into a compiler (apparently? I'm not sure, really, we haven't directly been given anything to compile so it may be that compiler doesn't come with the right underpinnings and libraries, and we might have to write those as part of a later lesson, but, argh) I am rapidly starting to lose confidence in this plan. Ugh.
In lieu of any of the other horrible things going on this week and the pervasive feeling that things just are not going to fucking get better because the people with any degree of power whatsoever are all assholes (and this is why Jag isn't allowed to look at the news today) I give you really fucking old music and space plankton. I'm not kidding. About either of them, that piece of music was apparently composed at least 3400 years ago, and there are plankton living on the ISS. Not on as in inside, on as in on the surface, in space, of the ISS.
Does this mean we'll eventually get space whales too? 'cause that would be hilarious.
I think mostly I just need to keep making sentences, there.
Studying Immunology on EdX, and apart from being kind of startled that I already know most of the intro stuff we're going through right now (civil engineering, basic techniques to avoid illness or communicating it, the last two clips had things I didn't know in those particular terms so that wasn't bad) and all I can think is, this is why the new strain of ebola is dangerous. Because it does allow people to get up and move around long enough to transfer it, whereas previously most outbreaks burned themselves out by killing their host/victim within a couple of days. No mobile victim/host, no moving the disease around, not much spread. Now? Hoo boy.
But, okay, apparently it's just the first lesson which is basic immunology stuff that you can learn from common fucking sense. Being sick saps your energy. Wash your goddamn hands. Vaccinations are a good thing, people. Okay, that last might cause a number of people who believe in some whackadoo things to flunk, but you know. Those of us who believe in science as well as other stuff, even if some of those other stuff are pretty whackadoo, will get it. (Look, science hasn't disproved ghosts, either, just that lots of things were not ghosts.)
Still don't know what to do about the CS course other than stick it out and then chew through a couple books and hope it makes sense. Unless I get any less bad at retaining the concepts, or unless my apparent inability to retain the concepts actually was at least partly due to the quizzes being borked. Which may have happened! Between that and my inability to properly input things into a compiler (apparently? I'm not sure, really, we haven't directly been given anything to compile so it may be that compiler doesn't come with the right underpinnings and libraries, and we might have to write those as part of a later lesson, but, argh) I am rapidly starting to lose confidence in this plan. Ugh.
In lieu of any of the other horrible things going on this week and the pervasive feeling that things just are not going to fucking get better because the people with any degree of power whatsoever are all assholes (and this is why Jag isn't allowed to look at the news today) I give you really fucking old music and space plankton. I'm not kidding. About either of them, that piece of music was apparently composed at least 3400 years ago, and there are plankton living on the ISS. Not on as in inside, on as in on the surface, in space, of the ISS.
Does this mean we'll eventually get space whales too? 'cause that would be hilarious.