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Room draw madness
Apr. 1st, 2010 01:16 pmI FUCKING HATE MY SCHOOL.
Okay. So the way room draw works around here is you get a random number that determines the order in which you'll be able to get the dorm room you want next year. Pretty simple, right? Except that the room draw numbers we got recently had to be revoked because an error in the system caused some Commons were favored over others, and it wasn't truly random, so they have to redo it. Okay, fine. People were pissed off about it because room draw numbers apparently cause anxiety and heart attacks and whatnot. I can totally see why, but I like to keep these things in perspective.
This morning we get another e-mail giving us new room draw numbers. Except guess what? APRIL FOOL'S! It turned out the e-mails, while looking extremely official, came from a Gmail account in which the the name of the person in change of room draw was misspelled in a way that's hard to notice at first glance (a "z" instead of an "s"). In other works, a fake account.
And you know the prankster obviously had dedication, since s/he got the names of everyone right (including middle names), as well as their graduation year, and gave everyone a different number. (S/he got the names because in the e-mail saying the room draw had to be redone, all the names of the recipients were visible, which is not supposed to happen. WTF college? DX) MiddBlog is telling students to "give respect" and laugh it off, but.....well. I can certainly appreciate and "respect" the effort involved in going in such a prank, as well as doing in a way that fooled practically everyone -- I mean, it's a success if I ever saw one. But everyone who knows me well knows that I do not react well to being punk'd AT ALL, and the feelings of having the rug pulled out under students AGAIN is palpable.
A part of me is laughing with everyone else, but a part of me is just.........ugh. No. Just no.
(And the thing is, both the revoked number and the fake one were really good numbers. Just gonna be my luck that the real one will put me at the bottom of the list. D:)
And this is to say nothing of the 25-page paper due next Wednesday, of which I only started doing research on. Yes, I am screwed, and I know this is completely of my own doing, so I'm not going to beat myself up over it. It just means I'm going to have to spend at least 90% of my waking time on research, taking notes, and actually writing the damn thing, just because all this stuff takes time, as well as the fact that I never not wanted to do anything this badly in my entire life (particularly because it's so daunting -- if you got such an assignment and didn't do much on it until a week from when it was due you'd be freaking out too -- and that I'll be done with the year fairly soon). I know I'll be able to do it, and this is just a first draft we're handing in so I can afford not to be so hard on myself when I come to write it (I hope to start on it sometime Sunday evening at the latest), but it still feels like pulling teeth. So yeah, this next week is going to be another Hell Week™, so if I won't be around as much as I usually am, that 's why.
(The good news is that after next week is over, the bulk of this semester's work will be done! I'll just have the revisions for the 25-page paper [even if it's time-consuming and requires a lot of revisions, at least the framework is there so I don't have to freak out too much], the second take-home exam for GIS [if it's like the last one, it's nothing to be worried about], the GIS final project [because the professor is telling us to keep it short, and because I haven't been having too many problems with the class, I'm not worried about this either], and the take-home exam for AFP [which consists of a 5-7 page essay and a 3-5 page essay, which is a lot, but after the work I've had this semester it should be a piece of cake]. And that's pretty much it! I can [kinda] take it easy after next Thursday! 8DDDDDDDDDDD)
All right, ranting and panicking over; gotta go to GIS lab. See ya on the flip side. ;-)
Okay. So the way room draw works around here is you get a random number that determines the order in which you'll be able to get the dorm room you want next year. Pretty simple, right? Except that the room draw numbers we got recently had to be revoked because an error in the system caused some Commons were favored over others, and it wasn't truly random, so they have to redo it. Okay, fine. People were pissed off about it because room draw numbers apparently cause anxiety and heart attacks and whatnot. I can totally see why, but I like to keep these things in perspective.
This morning we get another e-mail giving us new room draw numbers. Except guess what? APRIL FOOL'S! It turned out the e-mails, while looking extremely official, came from a Gmail account in which the the name of the person in change of room draw was misspelled in a way that's hard to notice at first glance (a "z" instead of an "s"). In other works, a fake account.
And you know the prankster obviously had dedication, since s/he got the names of everyone right (including middle names), as well as their graduation year, and gave everyone a different number. (S/he got the names because in the e-mail saying the room draw had to be redone, all the names of the recipients were visible, which is not supposed to happen. WTF college? DX) MiddBlog is telling students to "give respect" and laugh it off, but.....well. I can certainly appreciate and "respect" the effort involved in going in such a prank, as well as doing in a way that fooled practically everyone -- I mean, it's a success if I ever saw one. But everyone who knows me well knows that I do not react well to being punk'd AT ALL, and the feelings of having the rug pulled out under students AGAIN is palpable.
A part of me is laughing with everyone else, but a part of me is just.........ugh. No. Just no.
(And the thing is, both the revoked number and the fake one were really good numbers. Just gonna be my luck that the real one will put me at the bottom of the list. D:)
And this is to say nothing of the 25-page paper due next Wednesday, of which I only started doing research on. Yes, I am screwed, and I know this is completely of my own doing, so I'm not going to beat myself up over it. It just means I'm going to have to spend at least 90% of my waking time on research, taking notes, and actually writing the damn thing, just because all this stuff takes time, as well as the fact that I never not wanted to do anything this badly in my entire life (particularly because it's so daunting -- if you got such an assignment and didn't do much on it until a week from when it was due you'd be freaking out too -- and that I'll be done with the year fairly soon). I know I'll be able to do it, and this is just a first draft we're handing in so I can afford not to be so hard on myself when I come to write it (I hope to start on it sometime Sunday evening at the latest), but it still feels like pulling teeth. So yeah, this next week is going to be another Hell Week™, so if I won't be around as much as I usually am, that 's why.
(The good news is that after next week is over, the bulk of this semester's work will be done! I'll just have the revisions for the 25-page paper [even if it's time-consuming and requires a lot of revisions, at least the framework is there so I don't have to freak out too much], the second take-home exam for GIS [if it's like the last one, it's nothing to be worried about], the GIS final project [because the professor is telling us to keep it short, and because I haven't been having too many problems with the class, I'm not worried about this either], and the take-home exam for AFP [which consists of a 5-7 page essay and a 3-5 page essay, which is a lot, but after the work I've had this semester it should be a piece of cake]. And that's pretty much it! I can [kinda] take it easy after next Thursday! 8DDDDDDDDDDD)
All right, ranting and panicking over; gotta go to GIS lab. See ya on the flip side. ;-)
