Today my computer is on the fritz, so I am in the UGL (a glorified computer lab) cursing Murphy. The ITS people somehow managed to completely annihilate my poor machine, and over the phone, no less. I am of course a moron for calling ITS when I live upstairs from so many engineers and computer science majors.
Austin, you might be right about college being high school on steroids. There is just more of everything (and the food is worse). Still, there’s only a little more work compared to senior year in IB, but a lot more people. I support the people, but they are also distracting.
Last weekend I went cliff-diving with the girls on my floor and the boys upstairs. It was thoroughly awesome. Jumping off a big rock into water is absolutely worth the pain on impact. Also: it rained, the water was warm and green, the fact that everybody was new made them complex and fascinating. I think it was a defining college moment.
“Jumping Off Rocks” and “Cursing Murphey” are both great band names! My computer says to your computer, “get well soon!”
Wait, did I just misspell “Murphy”? Fuck!
i don’t think the food is worse, not at all. i think you just have to know where to eat.
what problem could possibly be complex enough for the ITS guys to screw it up? i’ve only ever had good experiences with them.
I don’t know, but they told me to do a System Restore from a couple days ago and screwed up the registry (saith Arvind). It wasn’t even a huge problem — my computer wasn’t connecting to the internet.
Just to clarify, I think the problem is deeper than that, since registry would not have screwed it up as much as it did. The issue is probably in hardware.
once my computer wouldn’t get an IP address other than 0.0.0.0 and kept crashing. i took it to ITS and they decided they needed to give me new anti-virus software and stuff (because that has everything to do with it, obviously…), and after like 2 hours of sitting around there concluded they couldn’t actually do anything because i couldn’t get service pack 2 for xp.
ps. same computer died for good about a month ago. *sniff*