In-class Labs 10/15

In-class Lab pg. 138

Decision to Make	The Result	Info I gathered
What I had for breakfast	A lot of carbohydrates, a protein shake	Carbohydrates make me feel less stressed, need a balanced meal
When I leave for school	An hour before school starts	Extra time needed to do homework
Writing a new project	Another new project	I don’t know what to say if a project goes too long, small project to spur creativity for the original
How long/when I do homework	Not afternoon, at night when my family watches TV, in the morning before school, not as much time	I don’t work well around my family, usually wait until the morning before school so I’m alone
Whether or not I should ever listen to Corben ever again	Listen to him again	He’s hard to tune out, funny sometimes
How much time I should leave to practice before giving a presentation	Two days	Was afraid I didn’t have enough research, didn’t manage my time well, didn’t know what to expect
Dressing up for Halloween	Still not decided	It’s stupid, but peer pressure

  

In-class Lab pg. 141

#1: Kindle Paper White e-reader by Amazon --   It's simple in functionality as it's only purpose is to download and read books on. It's made and shipped through a brand I trust more than the other and costs $120. Would be perfect to get Audible books on as well since they work through the same company. Slide it in your backpack with your laptop and you're good to go. I tend to favor this one because I don't want to get a computer and a tablet and not use one because I have the other, which makes this a great cheap option. Requires wifi to download books but you can read them offline. Since I have a phone this may be a little useless since I can read them on my phone.

#2: Nook e-reader by Nook --  It works as a tablet: you have access to the android app store and all the google features quickly, from email to youtube. It also is the biggest app store period. I trust Barnes and Noble since it's where I get all my paper books from, but being connected to google makes me worried about what information they could possibly receive (social security numbers, credit card info etc.) and use in applications I'm unaware of. Not sure if they supply audio books, but I'm sure they do somewhere. I can connect to wifi at Barnes and Noble for free which makes me wonder if I need to be online to read books. It costs from $150-$400. This could be a good option because I had an e-reader before and didn't use it because it didn't have the functionality of a tablet and later got one, no longer using my tablet at all. However since I have an iPhone which has it's own app store and you can get books on as well, seems like it would be my phone without data and not very useful.

End result: I'll probably get a good laptop instead and read on there, making both of these not really useful at all since computers can do all of that and more.