Where’s the ‘fun’ in Honours?
As far as the libraries are concerned, Honours students have it good. We have loan allowances of 28 days, compared to 14 days for other students, and we’re allowed 15 books at a time, when a year previously we would only be allowed 10. Although I never used up the quota of 10, so 15 is just overkill to me. I don’t have space for 15 books!
Yes, life takes a turn for the worse when you become an Honours student. Just look at what passes for leisure reading:
They’re all psychology books. I got some of them as background research for a term paper, but the rest are for fun. “Psychologists in Word and Image”: that’s basically an illustrated primer to psychologists of the past and present. Whee! Honours students - we’re basically geeks of our chosen field. Thanks!
Change of topic after the jump.
I just got Yahoo!Widgets on Sunday. I have to admit, those things are addictive! My most-used widget is miniPlayer, a little media player that I set to randomly play my MP3s. Of course I could do the same with Windows Media Player, but then I would lose taskbar space. Widgets don’t take up precious space on that slice of screen real estate which I reserve for “proper” applications like Firefox and productivity software. (It’s term-paper season again.)
I also downloaded the PostIt widget, which is a visual improvement on my previous Post-It Notes software. It’s just cuter, that’s all. And just for fun, I have Picture Frame to cycle through my many photos, and Hangman to play when my brain is fried. I’d really like a Facebook widget, but that might affect productivity rather than help improve it. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with the user experience so far. Once you get used to the interface, it’s happy days all around.
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