School Me Saturday 12/23/23-where I’ve been and new tool for school

Good morning!

I know, I know. I’ve been very light on posts this week. I blame the December schedule and the hours I picked up to help out. I also blame my old computer which had been limping since I received it in November 2022. It was bought new then to replace the older computer that saw me through the MSN. The computer I used for my BSN had completely fried one day, after the BSN but before I started the MSN. My husband says that although the PhD computer had had good reviews when he bought it there were files that were missing in its programming and after about December there were a lot of bad reviews.

I don’t think I am too hard on my computers. If I were, the computers would die from the same ailments, not different ones each time.

I think it is more that they fail me.

The one this computer replaced, the one I had had barely 12 months, started forgetting all my settings and would routinely dump all my information. This meant I was starting from scratch, with a computer that had to be retaught who I was and how to work best for me.

I admit, it was frustrating.

But having lived through my BSN computer dying and losing aaaaaaallllllllllllllll that work on the hard drive I was more strategic about where I saved my work. Once Microsoft 365 came along and made it easier to save on the cloud, and the computers began to be able to sync to others, recreating my school life, and my work life, and my writing life became a lot easier. This meant that I stopped losing school assignments, personal writing projects, and work writing projects each time the computer either died or had a seizure that made it forget me.

Which is the lesson for this School Me Saturday.

Starting over from scratch on a weekly basis is eminently frustrating. And, frankly, a waste of my time.

The lesson for this week is to have to right tools for the job at hand.

This will look different, depending on the job.

Right now this is a computer that can handle my hours and hours that I spend each week reading and making notes on the class readings. Or the hours and hours I spend each week on assignments.

This new computer is trial. Let us see if it will last through my dissertation.

I hope, I hope it does.

Although everything is in the cloud it is still annoying to bring the computer up to speed every time it decides to dump any knowledge I’ve gathered.

Fingers crossed.