GRAF #18 - Isearch Progress

GRAF #18 - Isearch Progress

My Isearch topic is Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and my greatest difficulty is time.  I am determined to be the best student I can be, but days are still limited to 7 24-hour periods per week, and things like sleeping and eating and other necessities and obligations require time, not to mention the fact that my other teachers also expect me to devote most of my time to their subjects as well.  (Let’s see, is that possible?  Can anyone do the math?)  My next difficulty is my dial-up computer connection, which is almost unbearably slow and ties up my phone line.  It’s easy to suggest I go somewhere else to use their high speed connection, but usually my available time is when nothing is open.  I tried following my teacher’s directions for copying the information into my computer in order to look at it when off-line, but either my program is different (Windows7) or I’m doing it wrong, since it didn’t work.  Frustrating, since that took hours to do, and I thought it was working and I was making progress.  Now I have to go back and try to redo it all.  I’m thankful we’ll be having another week’s break before the first draft is due (April 20^th, not Nov. 18^th as it is written in week 8’s assignments.)  Though I had wanted to use that week to catch up on other things I’ve been putting off while concentrating on schoolwork, I’ll probably have to use it to get my first draft ready.  Other than those 2 obvious and unavoidable difficulties, things are going as expected: there is much information available; there are suggestions presented to hopefully avoid or delay the onset of AD, but there are no guarantees.  I still have much to learn, and much to assemble into an orderly Isearch report.