I have now completed 3 weeks of my sophomore year so I figured I'd give you all an update on how the technology failures of the first week have shaped up.
My Economics eBook finally got working at the end of the second week, but not with the original options promised. The original options were to buy both the eBook and the homework or just the homework. But now they tell us they can't give us just the book. My professor is not pleased, as she said, "You would think they have some incentive to give me what I want with all the revenue from the 400+ students I have paying them each year, but apparently not." I didn't mind, as I was planning on buying the eBook and homework package all along, but nonetheless it was very mishandled technology.
My Aero design course has been slightly more successful. While the system does still crash at least once a class period, it is working on most people's home computers now (except for those silly enough to bring a mac to engineering school),
and the lag has decreased significantly. We now have better options for interacting with our virtual world, including an option that centers your view on the screen you are standing in front of to better read it. Instead of having to right-click and drag your view around to get a so-so look at the screen, you can now look straight at it no matter how close you are to it (see picture). Also, when you customize your avatar it is supposed to stay the same when you log out, but I haven't tested this facet yet. The program still refuses to encrypt my password and the tab key doesn't work, but each class we get a new update, so hopefully in another couple weeks most of the bugs will be worked out. Unfortunately I feel like until then we spend more time trying to work the program than we do learning the material, which is a problem as our first exam is coming up this Friday.That's all for now, I'll be back in another week or two.
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