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[active_apathy]

So, today was my first day of becoming a studenty type again. Whee!

And here are the challenges that faced me today...

We start with the merging of two unrelated concepts. The first is 7:43am, which I've heard of a few times but have seen little actual evidence of. The second is a bus. When you put them together, bad things happen - those bad things being that I'm sleepy and unimpressed for half the morning.

7:30/bus? OTP

Then, we come to my next puzzle for the day: A door that refuses to open. I try pushing on it. I try pulling it toward me. Someone inside has a shot at helping with it, but no dice. So, I find a way around and get inside.

About a minute later, someone else comes along and hey, presto, pulls the door open without any kind of problem.

Problem the third was that these people seem to think tea can be made in a foam cup. I'm fairly sure no further commentary is needed there.

And then things went well. There was an informationy-orientation-thingy, which must've been good because I remember there being lots of Powerpoint slides.

So, yey. Actual learning starts on Monday.

Comments

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Any time before 8am is a terrible thing to see. *shudder*

Foam cups: I don't think they trust students will real cups/mugs, because they are breakable and cost money to replace, which means students will break them. I have no idea how many foam cups of coffee I got through as a student, but I suspect it may be a 4-figure number.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Coffee in foam isn't as bad.

Well... let me clarify. Properly-made coffee in foam isn't quite as bad as tea in foam.

I think that the faculty just refuses to provide real mugs because there's a very real chance that students may swipe them, condemning them to forever dwell on milk crate coffee tables.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big fan of tea in foam myself, but back in my coffee drinking student days I didn't really care about the container, as long as it contained the sweet sweet caffiene, the juice of life itself. Not that I had a caffiene problem...

Theft is a big proble with students. Back in my first year, the university owned bar (named Bar One) had a large number of two-pint glasses with "Stolen from Bar One" printed on the side. They stopped doing it because so many got stolen. Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, really.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

That should be problem, not proble. My fingers seem to be having a bit of an off day.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Also, a student stole your 'm'.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

"Is that m supposed to be missing like that?"

"Bloody Students!"

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Milk crates are a *perfectly legitimate* form of furniture. And you can keep stuff in them, too!

We only got real mugs in honours year, and that's because we a) met in the lecturers' kitchen/common room, the cheapskates, and b) stole their mugs.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I used to have my caffeine supplied by cafes; I suspect this will again be the case. There's a much better chance at getting mugs, and a much lower chance of having to drink instant coffee.

Milk crates are perfectly legitimate furniture, yes. They're also cheap, mostly because they're stolen. :D

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Good for you!

The majority of my lectures were on fancy computer projection Powerpoint thingys on Macs. The Psychology lecturers were the least technologically-capable. The other lectures used transparencies on a slide projector. One lecture used a lecturer who liked to dress up as Indiana Jones and dance on tables to songs by Hunters and Collectors, not necessarily at the same time.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Many of my lecturers seemed to be incapable of using the fancy overhead computer projectors. This didn't leave me with a great deal of confidence in their ability to teach me computer science.

My favourite lecturer was our robotics lecturer, who was actually a judge on Robot Wars. His example of using feedback from dual sensors was a robot that he originally made to chase his children around the house if they got up and moved from where he'd left them. Very strange man.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

*headdesks*

That's not exactly a good quality in a comp sci teacher at all!

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the study of Computer Science has a lot to do with mathematics, and often very little to do with actually using computers. It can be a very theoretical (read: intensely boring) subject.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I remember my lectures from the degrees I failed reasonably well. The IT department obsessibely used OpenOffice.org Impress for their slideshows, to show exactly how Linuxy and open-source they were.

Except one. He used a Mac. I didn't like him much.

My classics lectures had a single overhead each - one page of technical terms and spellings, so that everyone knew how to spell things.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Obsessively, too.

[aurora-z.livejournal.com]

Tea in foam cups = The Devil.


I'm shuddering right now just thinking about it.


Okay, I'm a big nerd, but when you were talking about the door that wouldn't open for you, I thought about Harry Potter. Bahahaha, awesome.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That it is. Evil, evil, and evil some more. Teabag + foam + slightly-warm water = hideous.

Thankfully, the cerberus doesn't live in the lecture theatre. :)

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

Library tech? No no no, actual learning doesn't start until your derived cataloguing class! And then only barely.

The key thing you learn in the first few classes is how to play Neopets and write fic while appearing to be paying attention. :P

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Neopets? Remind me to carry an overdose of morphine, just in case things get that desperate.