Volume 2
Issue 1
Jan.15,2001
In this Issue:
Reflections on Life As a Graduate Student
New Directions in Instructional Systems and Performance Technology
Conference in Honor of Kent Gustafson
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as a Graduate Student...
…And Some Ways to Make
the Most of It
Marcy P. Driscoll
There is no question that graduate school today is different than when I was a student (I won't say how long ago that was; you can do the math as well as I can!). However, I write this not only from my own experience as a graduate student, but as someone who has observed students for many years and offered them advice from time to time. Although it was advertised that I would write about changes in the Instructional Systems program, as department chair, I'm not as close to the program as I once was. So I am exercising my prerogative and writing about another topic that is near and dear to my heart.
FULL STORYHardly!
Abbas Darabi
When I received an e-mail reminding me of the deadline for this writing, I was on the last leg of my rigorous effort to have ACNS mount and read a magnetic tape for some data analysis purposes. For the PC generation, these are the magnetic reel-to-reel round tapes that a display of their intermittent movement on a tape drive was once an impressive show of digital power on numerous television shows. However, when the help desk operators passed me on to a wiser voice, I was told that they no longer handled tapes like that. Surprised by my persistence that the tape was produced on FSU's mainframe computer and there was no reason for them not to be able to read it, the wiser voice asked me when the tape was produced. Looking at the date on the cover of the tape, I realized that it has been a long time since I worked at FSU.
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