Accepted in Drexels ACE Program Spring 2009

Glad to hear you survived. How was the math quiz?

Your Prinicples clinical is usually at a LTC or sub-acute facility, so I'm not sure which Holy Redeemer you'll be going to. They'll post details on Blackboard over the weekend. The main medical center is a nice hospital with good staff who seem to like students, so hopefully you'll have a good experience.

Your clicker will likely sit in your bag until some random day when one of your professors brings "clicker questions" to a lecture or review. Then you'll all point them at things and find out that they don't really work anyway.

HaHa. . we had those clicker things at my other undergrad college and we never used them either!
We never had the math quiz surprise surprise! It sounds like it's a good thing to say to get students to read the material!
I will be going to Lankenau for clinicals wednesdays. Does that mean that my fridays will be free?

I tried multiple times but can't seem to log into blackboard. Has any of the new ACE students for Spring 09' been able to log in?
I am just using my @drexel.edu name like it says to use and my same password I use to log into one.drexel.edu

I wonder if they haven't opened it yet or something. . .

I'm not in yet. The site says we'd get an email saying we can login. I haven't received that email yet, either.

How are you coming along with your PDA?

I just got off the phone with someone from technical support about blackboard. He said that students won't be able to log into blackboard until Sunday. I already had a professor email me and say to read over and print the syllabus and begin to review ppt's for monday! Sunday won't leave me with too much time.

I registered with that skyscape thing online today and entered everything into the PDA so everything's unlocked now at least. That thing is a freakin' brick! Definitely won't be putting that on the belt haha.

How are you making out with it? I do like the wireless internet feature though. This is my first PDA experience.

I think the PDA would be fine if my laptop wasn't such a PITA. My laptop has some weird flaws... I have to reinstall stuff all the time. The USB ports don't work too well (I just bought a USB2 pcmia card for it). It's internal wiresless died. But, it runs XP (which the PDA requires).

My laptop can talk to the PDA, but I couldnt' start the unlocking process yet since the Firefox crashed or something. Trying to work on that now, along with cooking and cleaning my desk area.. and wasting valuable time on the intarwebs.

hahaha...well i have a mac so i'm screwed with syncing it to my laptop. I'll have to use the computers in the lab.

I am busy trying to get all my stuff together to move. I can't move into student housing at Stiles Hall until Saturday.

Ok.. I think I installed all that stuff. It all has expiration dates? What happens then? Mine expires the day before the last Friday of finals, I think. Does it just stop updating, or do I lose complete access to the books/programs?

Yeah, Blackboard probably won't be up until Saturday or Sunday, including courses for current students. You'll only have to print some first day info, nothing major. It's the same time frame every quarter.

The Skyscape is only good for the duration of the program, after that, you'll have to pay for the subscription yourself. You'll still have the books, just without the updates.

Everyone ready for Monday?

I'm so excited for you guys! I don't start until September, but I'll keep an eye out for any updates you post about the program. Good luck!