)The course selection meeting was this afternoon and even though I'm finished the program in a couple weeks, I thought about going just to hear what the profs said and hang out with some of the students. Then I realised this was sort of an O'Bannion move (that's the guy in Dazed and Confused who graduates high school but still hangs around) so decided not to. Also I fell asleep.
But anyhow, I thought I'd do some more hypothetical reality (I'm really getting to like that phrase!) and pick the courses I would take if I were still here.
570 - Instructional Strategies - J Noon. (Monday afternoon)
650 - Information Entrepreneurship - L. McKinnon (Wed evening)
OR
762 - Enterprise Content Management - M. Debicki (Wed evening)
756 - History of the Book - B. MacDonald (distance)
758 - Publishing, Media & Librarianship - T. Oliphant (Fri morning)
760 - Communication Technologies and Connectivity: Current Trends and Researches - A. Quan-Haase (Monday morning)
So what's that give me - Monday morning, Wed afternoon, Wed evening, Friday morning and a distance course. Yikes! That's a pretty bad schedule to be honest.
I'd probably try to massage things a bit - maybe pick a different class that interests me equally to a couple of these (Advanced Info Sources, Services for Children and Young Adults, Information Policy, Managing Vendor Relations, maybe I'd even take the plunge and take that one course that I know I should take but which I avoided all year - government documents.) Maybe do another independent study or a research proposal.
Hmm, on second thought I'm glad I don't have to pick. My last two semesters things worked out really well, both in terms of classes I got into and when they were scheduled. I only got bumped once (into Genealogy this term) which sounded good and useful but turned out to be not as good or useful as I hoped. (At this very minute, I'm finishing up a presentation AND a paper that are due tomorrow and isn't that like illegal or something? Probably the most work I've done for 25% in this entire program!)
