I wanted to do something special this year since there is an extra day in February. So I decided to have a LAN party! A bunch of friends are coming over today and we will have ourselves a geek party!
At first I was not really into it, but now I am really excited. Happy 29th day of February!
So the weather has been wickedly cold the past few weeks. They have canceled night classes at least once again that I can remember. I have only been to my Wednesday night class 4 times this semester!
The pressure of administration has become very apparent. Now that I am the team leader for my IS project capstone course I am charged with not only meeting with the professor every week to give updates, but to meet with the director of our non profit organization as well. In addition, it has become my responsibility to coordinate the projects that the other team members are working on. I will grant that it is a lot of fun being the boss, but my god the time I have to waste in meetings and writing email correspondence to keep everyone informed and apprised is exhausting.
Wednesday just plain sucked.
A botched paper in Classical literature began my day from hell. It ended with a professor telling me that I would never be able to convince my advisor to waive my speech requirement. “It just isn’t done”, he said to me as my blood pressure began to rise. I am continually astonished by the shear lack of compassion at the university. Ego is the culprit I suspect. No one wants to make an exception because if they let one person get away with it, then they will have to let someone else do it to. Ridiculous!
I was able to contact an old professor at NMC and got a copy of a syllabus that should count as my speech credit. It was a presentation graphics class. Good god the class taught me how to effectively use PowerPoint in a business presentation. Could it get any more perfect for a major in Information Systems?
I am exhausted from this week. I am very much looking forward to the weekend and to a few tasty cocktails at the bar. This week I earned them.
As if to reward me for my hard work this week and as a present for Valentine’s Day, the professor of my only class for tomorrow, Friday has canceled class. Sadly she was not feeling well and I am sorry for that, but her loss is happily my gain. I have been working very hard all week in not just her class, but in all my classes. As this is my final semester, regardless of whether or not the University agrees.
