Hello, Loyola College....

So now that I'm working at both the Tech help desk, and covering the switchboard for the college, I'm bound to get a few wrong calls everyonce and a while right?

I thought that the strangest one would have been a woman calling from my home area code, asking for carpet, but I was just proven wrong.


Pawn shop?
Really?

And the strangest part, is that people don't...believe me when I answer the phone, stating exactly who they are calling.
"Hello, Loyola College."
"Hey is this **** ***** Pawn Shop?"

.....No. In fact it is not. It is Loyola College. Which I just stated that it was.
I don't know where this confusion comes from.

At least I can't say that I don't meet interesting people at this job.

Job Description?

Remember that time my job entailed answering the occasional phone call, and taking inventory once or twice a day?

Surprise. Turns out my job has been updated and expanded.

To answering the phone a whole lot more, and not being able to leave aformentioned phone to take inventory because the phone is ringin' off the hook.

Instead of handling the calls for the department I work for, I'm now working the switchboard.
As in, you call the general number...and I pick up the phone.

"I don't know what department this person is in, and I don't know their last name. But can you transfer me to them?"


At least I'm still getting paid.

I don't need no education

Here I thought I went to college to, I don't know, bond with peers, get an education, network.

Most of all, I wanted to get away from idiots. Those people who just don't get it.
No offense if you are one of those people (are we not all at some point?), but sometimes I have to seriously wonder how these people got in here. I don't have a problem with them being here. Every one has the right to take a Chemistry class.

But if you are a science major, and can't understand that there is extra oxygen BECAUSE YOU ARE PUMPING IT IN, then maybe you should reconsider your career choice.


In the future, I do not want these people to be my doctors.

It's that time again....

We're almost in that state of limbo - after finals, but before grades are posted - anxiously awaiting to see how that ridiculous final affected our class average.

I think the schools do it on purpose.
Here we are. Sitting on the edges of the provided rock-y chairs, surrounded by things that should be packed, checking WebAdvisor for the third time that morning, in hopes a grade will be posted, and the fate of a GPA will be determined.

I'm in the same situation as last semester.

I have a 4.00.

But I only have one grade back.



At least this time it is a 4-credit class, and not a 1-credit lab.

I come for the sand, not for the money.

I had an interview for a summer internship today.

Not sure how it went.

I don't think I'll get the position.

It's far away, appears to be no pay, requires training that I don't have, and they hope that the intern will return after being set free.

And I don't see that happening.

To be honest, I'm probably going to move to Maryland at some point.

And I don't even know if building engineering is anything I am interested in.

But being so close to the beach would be so nice.

I use an astrolabe to plan my future.

Scheduling classes was a disaster.

You would think that the honors program would involve perks, like a continental breakfast, after dinner mints, and priority in classes. Clearly not.

The math class I needed to get in filled up and I had to waver in. And then the people "helping" out decided to not do their jobs and made me struggle to get into classes that should have been easy.

They don't seem to understand that I can't register for classes if the co-requisites are filled.

And yes Doctor. I don't know where you've been but that class has always been required for an Engineering Major.

And someone else told you that about a half hour before I mentioned it again.

How did you forget?