Kiwi65

a word on downloading the powerpoints and study guides from blackboard........ all the material is developed in fccj's computers which all have the most updated version of microsoft office, i believe it's office '07. if you have an earlier version of office on your computer ( such as 2000 or '03) you may have problems being able to download the documents. office '07 gives users the option to maintain complatability with earlier versions when you save a document but sometimes the professors forget and sometimes it just doesn't work. we had to ask some of our professors to post a separate version of documents some times. you can tell the difference because old documents end in .doc or .ppt and new ones will end in .docx or .pptx if you find this is not your problem then it may just be that blackboard is having a bad day or you may have do to what some people in my class do which is print everything in a computer lab.

The format for pharm can be different for different sections. I took the class online with the rest of the nights and weekends section. Some of the day sections had it online, others were hybrid, and others had it on campus and met like a regular class. So how you take the class may depend on which section you are in.

actually that's not completely accurate. i'm currently in nights and weekends, going into third term. we did the lottery to pick our sections for next term. the difference is that there are only 2 sections, and we all have lecture together on the same day, so you are really only picking where you want to have clinical's at and who you want as an instructor. granted it's a little silly considering there's only 24 of us but that's what they did. for people who want nights and weekends, just know that there will be times you have to attend things during the day during the week. most hospital orientations are during the day during the week and they are mandatory. we usually get the schedule decently in advance so we know when we have to be places. but realize you are effectively giving up your weekends for the next 16 months.