Yup. I'm feeling all of these at the moment. I know it's been almost a month since the last time I posted, so I'm sure you want to read about how glorious my senior year started, or the latest gossip on who knows what, but no. I'm posting about my anger toward this stupid online class.
Somewhere deep in my brain last year, i thought "hey, I'm smart. Let me take this online class about web design, cause I know nothing about the web and I really don't care that much about it." Stupid junior brain. It got me to believe this was what I really wanted. Well I started the class and right away hated it. There are so many stupid acronyms about stupid stuff that only stupid people would care about probably. And then the designing came.
Now I didn't have a problem with the designing part of it. It's time consuming, but actually kinda brainless once you get the hang of things. But then my stupid textbook told me to go onto the stupid internet and try out my stupid little website I made. And the stupid thing didn't work. I wasn't worried at first about it. I e-mailed my instructor and she told me what to do. Unfortunately THAT didn't work either, so I had to turn in my first assignment, blind to what it really looks like cause I'm not smart enough to figure it out on my own. Needless to say, this is my least favorite class at the moment cause it's causing me stress and I'm losing sleep because of it (and I like sleep...a lot.) So here I am, at 12:03 writing in my blog because my boyfriend already went to bed....and so did everyone else whose not struggling with this stupid class and I'm sitting here going, well I got it done, now she's going to give me an F on the stupid thing cause it's stupid. (Sorry about the amount of stupid in this post. I'm really lacking any kind of creativeness tonight, cause I just don't care right now.)
But anyway, I'm ready for this crap to be over. And that was only the first assignment. Lesson learned. No more online classes if that can be helped.
Have you tried shaking it?
ReplyDeleteAre you learning html or what? I have some experience with html and web design, so I might be able to give you a hand if you need it. Just Facebook me or something.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd suggest, though, is poking around your high school for someone who knows web design. In most high schools there are a few easily accessible techies who keep things up and running. If you can find a teacher who teaches technology or computer classes or anything like that, he might be a valuable resource to go to when you're stuck and confused.
Stick with it, though. I've been frustrated before when I've dived into new subjects, but they usually get better as you familiarize yourself with the lingo and such.
I shook the living crap outta it!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes it's an intro to XHTML class. So web design stuff. And I did get in figured out in the end. Turns out my defaults were set up wrong by the school techie who was supposed to be helping me. But I got it all figured out for now so hopefully I won't need help for a while. I'm getting into the swing of things and actually finding it kinda fun now. But I'll definitely shoot you a message or text if I'm completely lost :)
Everyone struggles with feelings of inadequacy at the beginning of classes. From middle school to grad school. You are entirely smart enough to figure out how to jam some stuff in HTML. Trust me.
ReplyDeleteYou can also hit me up for technical advice. I'm a 53, we know this stuff.