I suppose I deserve this?

So it's nearing the end of the semester and as expected, things are piling up one after another.

6 lab write-ups for Electronics

8+ lab write-ups for Digital Logic

1 three page paper, 1 6-8 page research paper for Art

Of course, most of this is work I should have completed quite a while ago.

But of course, I left it until now.
When I have finals to worry about.

Great.

Nice job, Melby.

Valentine's Day

Classes start up again tomorrow, and while I'm looking forward to having something to do, what I am not looking forward to is having tons and tons of work to do.

To be quite honest, I don't know if I would have gotten the chance to make Valentines this year, had it not been for the week off from school.

And that just would have been ashame.

In other news, I really with it had been this week, not last week that was off. Then I could have watched the Olympics uninterrupted.

Snow is okay I guess

Yeah so it's been over a month since I've posted, what're you going to do about it, punk?

That's what I thought.

In any case, I'm about done with this snow. When I was applying to schools, here I thought that being in Maryland was south enough that these kinds of blizzards wouldn't happen. Of course, that's mostly just because I don't have such a great sense of distance. Baltimore really isn't that far south. My bad.

I can't remember the last time I've seen this much snow. 1996? Maybe. But that might have just been because I was six years old and anything would have been taller than me.

But this snow comes up to my knee. And we're supposed to get another foot tonight.

So much for school.

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.