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+{{cquote|I had just started nursing school and we were being told that the licensing board was increasing the focus on immunology, one of the most complex systems in the body, and because of that we were required to score higher on a more focused test on the subject in order to remain in the program. I had never worked in healthcare and the vocabulary alone was a foreign language... not to mention the subtle connections between cells that had to be understood. We were all terrified, I was terrified... My textbooks were good resources but I could not get a full, global picture of what was happening on that level to be able to act on it. So, I sat down in front of my computer, opened wikipedia (which was forbidden as an academic resource-but I still believed it could help, what did I have to loose) and I typed in one of the terms... then I just kept clicking words, links, anything I did not fully understand, I clicked and read that article and then clicked back and I kept clicking and making connections, imagining concrete relationships for the abstract ideas, clicked some more, I was learning like my brain was built to, constantly building on the knowledge before it... I Aced the immunology test, excelled at my boards, Started working as an RN on a Heart floor and now I am finishing my Masters in nursing. Thank You. }}
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 {{cquote|Nowhere else in the world can you find as good an overview of the life and work of Guy Davenport, the MacArthur Award essayist, draughtsman, painter, essayist, and author of distinguished postmodern fictions, as can be found at Wikipedia.  Within a very short time of his death in 2005, a few knowledgeable people took a stem and turned it into a superb entry worth of the best encyclopedia.  Certain myths and misperceptions kept creeping in to the entry, but gradually the demonstrable facts won out and the entry settled down.