What I Got

Some of you may see this title and think I'm referring to the famous Sublime song, but actually I am referring to my own life as a student here at Penn State and what I have because of this.

Yes, I am being given the opportunity to receive a great education.  But something that goes right in hand with that is something that many people might forget or not know that Penn State is giving to us as well-- great resources!

I personally had had no idea about the knowledge commons in the library before our class tutorial just weeks ago.  If not for that class, there is a big chance that I never would have known too.  That area of the library presents students, faculty, and more with all the resources and staff help that they could need to create just about any multi-media, audio, visual, or anything else creative project you could imagine.  It is a must have for all of you not so tech-savvy students like myself.

Just yesterday, my group for our upcoming multi-media project went to record for our project.  Not only were we giving our own little private working booth, but we had everything we could ever need to make our project the best possible project it could be right at our fingertips.

When we were done the recording, which we did with ease, most likely because some of my group had recorded there before I think, the man came in to help us save our work and teach us how to get it up on other computers.  Although he did scare us a little by telling us all these DON'T's instead of DO's, we ended up with a great deal more knowledge on computers and working with multimedias than we had gone into that room with (must be why it is called the "Knowledge Commons" duh!).

Anyways, I think all classes freshman year really need to take students in there.  Everyone should know about the resources we have at our fingertips.  It would be a shame to let things like that go to waste because it honestly was the most helpful thing ever!  I can just picture my group trying to work without the help we had... and it is a little bit scary!  (sorry group! but I think we all might have tried to double click the files from the flash-drive if our handy-dandy helper wouldn't of stressed to us that that would result in the deletion of our work! Phew!)

Spread the word about these resources!  I didn't know about them before and I am sure there are many who are in the same boat that I was just weeks ago.