Tuesday October 28

So my blog is rather behind since I am slightly blonde and it took me a little while to figure out how exactly to write a blog. So I appologize that this blog is going to be extra long...that is because I am going to try to make up for the past couple weeks that I did not miss. OOPS :) Anywho...when you mentioned that it was a requirement to learn Access my heart I think stopped for quite a few seconds, maybe even a minute...just saying. I took a microsoft office class a few years ago and lets just say that I failed the test when it came to Access, so I was not excited for this class. Anyway I am not so scared anymore. I am definitely one of those people who learns from practice not simply from listening. Listening to a lecture, I will sometimes maintain the information that we are discussing in class...however, sometimes it will leave my brain about 5 seconds after I walk out of the classroom door. When you first showed us the access project that we were going to be creating I simply thought "I'm screwed." However, it is not as difficult and complex as it might look. Well maybe it is but at least I think I finally understand it and what we are doing. Doing the computer club and the hair salon ones in class really helped me to understand what to do. My only critique is that sometimes I think you should try to pause even just for like a minute to make sure that we are all caught up. Sometimes it is hard if we click one button wrong to get back up to where you are. An honestly, I messed up on the relationship part of my first access and I definitely missed when you went over relationships in class because I was trying to fix something that I had missed earlier on in the lecture. Anyway, that is my only complaint. I found it a lot easier to do the assignment after we had gone over one in class. I never even went back in to look at the example ones we did, I simply was able to just do the project. Practicing the other assignments in class really seemed to help. I do wish the projects were worth more than they are...I spend more time working on the projects for Access than I do studying for an exam and I feel that they should be worth a little bit more than they are. But that's just my opinion. I also really liked doing the second access assignment. Being able to form reports and what not, I knew that I would be able to apply this knowledge to other parts of my business career. I often go to this spa where they look up your name and do all this stuff in the computer and pull up reports that say all the types of products I use and the services that I usually receive. I always wondered how they were able to remember all of this information for each and every person at their spa. I also every birthday receive something in the mail offering me a special deal for my birthday. I thought to myself...wow this must take a long time having to go through each day and see whose birthday is going to be coming up soon. But now I understand they probably use somesort of a query to find out whos birthdays are coming up in February or some other period of time. I find this to be extremely fascinating. I recently went to the spa over the weekend and actually asked them what they are using as their database and what do you know...access. They have created their own database that they are able to input informatoin into. This is something that I can now do and honestly I feel somewhat powerful!