I went to this sports night last night with PULSE a church youth group. They are pretty nice people although I wasn't even there 10mins before God was brought up. Apparently, the person who had corned me at clubs day was a minister. My answers were No I don't believe in God so the following questions (how important is his plan for your life and something else) are irrelevant. I hope they don't mind me being Buddhist. There was a girl called Liz who was wearing a 2004 Wanganui High School leavers shirt so I asked if she knew Emma Crawford and she asked which one Emma M Crawford and I said yeah that one (Emma had told me previously that there were 2 emma crawfords at her school) and she said yes. So I though that was quite amusing. Even if I haven't seen neither hide nor hair of Emma in 3years.

Mums computer sucks. Not only had adobe PDF reader fucked up and won't let me view PDFs in a browser but they STILL have dial-up making it very difficult to do stuff on mastering biology (it's this neat website that comes with the textbook). I have an exam next week worth like 25% so it would be really helpfull if I could access it. I would go into Massey today but mum has taken the car. I love science but sometimes I wish there were more assignments and less 25% exams.

Yesterday for my communication tutorial we talked about what needed to be submitted for our assignment. It's not only the essay its self, but also an i-map (this documents thought processes whilst writing an assignment. I think it's is a great idea even if it's a little bit more work) and 2 exercises about evaluating source material. For my website I'm going to evaluate www.alz.org (I've actually refrenced this in my assignment) and for my journal I'm going to evaluate the journal of the amercian medical associatiion (I've also referenced a couple of articles from there). I'm trying to aim for an A.

I am feeling very studious today. If herb wasn't asking me to do this, that and the other thing.

cross-posted to livejournal

I'm still in Wellington (and if you read my LJ you would know why) but marketing assignment results have came out and I got a...

It is never ending!! I've just recieved today my second 103 assignment. It's oral and done it pairs. My half dosn't even like marketing!! We are given a sheet with 8 questions to research so we split it in half. I'm doing:

1. "Subcultures are often studied to give researchers an insight into consumption practises - why are the useful examples of the role of consumption in consumers lives?"
2. "Atmospherics are of vital importance in any servicescape. How might atompsheric elements be used to manipulate consumption in the retail setting?"
3. "Explain why we study perceptions in consumption behaviour and provide examples of how top-down processing is used in marketing?"
4. "Evaluate the use of demographic segmentation, particulary the limitations compared to psychographic segmentation"

An idea that struck me when reading number 2 was a story that Keely told me about how she went to work one day and decided to have popcorn for dinner so she cooked it and put it underneath the counter till her break. They almost sold all their popcorn that night. She works at a video store by the way, I don't know why they wouldn't do that all the time. It would invoke peoples feelings of cuddling up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn with a good movie. That idea well and truly has been sold to us consumers. Since her boss is in financial doo doo it might help.

However, since I'm not going to be here these holidays (my flight leaves before 10am on Saturday morning and returns after 5pm the following Sunday) it's going to make it very aquward meeting up with my half to discuss the answers. Since my mark partly depends on her she had better do a good job! Lol I don't do team work very well, I'm going to be well annoyed if she dosn't do a good job. We are presenting it the first Monday after the break and our pair is at 2.20pm.

I've a tonne of work to do this break as well. I've got 2 exams to study for, although with economics plussage applies so I could just not turn up. But I want to know how I'm doing. My Accounting exam is the day after my economics exam, great T_T because I need 35%+ in that exam in order to get terms, and thus sit the finance exam. I've also got this assignment to do for marketing. I was thinking about going home to study but it's just too freaking cold but the library is nice and warm and closes at 11pm so I can just make my way to the bus stop and take a bus home.

Management lecture was interesting, the computer froze and so our lecturer called up the tech and then made him apologise to us because the computer was wasting the time that we had paid for. I actually felt sorry for the guy. I would have hated to have worked under this lecturer he sounds like an ass. It was his stupid video that made the computer have a heart attack in the first place.

I'm trying to work on my 103 assignment as it's due on the 8.8.08 (wow that shouldnt be hard to remember) and so far its going okay. Sometimes I wish that we had more than 2 BSNS103 lectures per week because I need a bit more theory in order to properly analyze my consumer choice. I know there is more that went into me buying my WACOM GRAPHIRE4 TABLET 6X5 (mines exactly the same as that except it's black) than I realized but because these ideas havent been introduced to me yet I can't consider them. Did that make sense?  -sigh- I know I can really get my teeth into the assignment too! So far all I have to be discussed and analyzed is:
Display of goods (part of the "7 deadly sins" of consumerism), Repuation from refferals and creation of identity. I guess it's back to the textbook for me. I'm not sure if doing my tablet is a good choice because most people have never seen one before let alone know what it is but it's the one thing I've brought that I put a lot of thought into. Not even my laptop had this much thought going into it.

I have a 101 tutourial tommrow morning at 9am in Chemistry 3. Chemistry 3 is the whole damn building of all 6 floors! I guess I will be looking around for quite a while then.

edit 11.25am 18 July
okay so Chemistry 3 isn't the whole building it's a small room just down from the 1st year chemistry labs on the 1st floor in Science I. Funny how it dosn't say "this way to Science I" on the signs. Oh no! It says "Undergraduate Labs this way" Stupid friggin signage.