So my classes today finished at 1PM, I figured I would go down to my school’s library to work on assignments and study for a few hours. I get there and find that I will have to face the problem I always do, that the fifty or so computers that are open to students (and the public…) are all occupied. I can see most of the monitors show Facebook or flash games, which is considered a perfectly fair use of the computers by library staff because it does not go against the school’s fair computer use policy. I disagree. I needed a computer so I could actually do my schoolwork and access my professor’s website! I went up to a floor where I know there are another two computers by the stacks, of course they’re both taken. Jesus Christ, at a school with over 12000 students why do you have less than 100 computers in the library? —Not posting this from a school computer
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
How many are there in computer labs? Just wondering. Great you were able to access a computer and LTWWB.
Don’t they have WiFi at these schools & universities for students to use?
I’m with Koda, OB. You bitch about not having a computer to do work but found one to write this. Quit university and get a job raking leaves.
Shit, I’d find a computer to post a bitch. Maybe OP ended up finishing their work and decided to bitch?
I agree with this bitch. At SMU they have a policy that if the lab is 75% full it’s academic work only allowed on the computers. Staff enforces this policy and will announce it to all students and then go up to violators and ask them to stop using FB and MSN. I think it’s a great policy, but it doesn’t apply in the library where IT&S doesn’t control the computers — just the labs.
And you dipshit, sebastard, not everyone has a laptop, and sometimes people don’t want to lug it to campus. but when you have work to get done and time in between classes and you can’t get home…what are you gonna do? Go jack off in the bathroom?
Stop being homophobic, PK. You know that calling sebastian out means you’re hate LBGTs.
Poor Sebastard! Everyone always hatin’ on him! Not like he brings it upon himself or anything.
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Koda and NGF: Did you miss the signature “Not posting this from a school computer”???
No. The fact that one found a computer and wrote this (instead).
Like I said, I’d take a few seconds and write a bitch about this. Hell, I’ve been in OP’s situation (usually, I just need to find a call number for a book, but I can’t get it because of all the douchetards using the reference stations (that you don’t have to log onto) are checking their facebooks) and thought “fuck. I need to bitch about this”. And it’s not like people don’t need a 5 minute break here and there, esp when you’re up to your ass in schoolwork. Stop ragging on OP already!
do not say rag^^^
Paingirl is correct, PK. It’s the same as looking into your bathroom mirror on Halloween and saying Montrealman 3 times. Nothing good can come of it.
the neverending thread is almost at three hundred…someone should be proud. teehee
At many universities, the library isn’t the only place you can find a computer lab.
For example, at Dal, there are computer labs in the McCain building, the Rowe building, the Law library, and in the SUB. Before you get your panties in a knot, may I suggest you check other locations on comapus first?
libraries exist for people to gain information. Wake up and realize that all those things on the shelves are books and they too contain information. The world is not just on the Internet!
If this is at the school I’m thinking of, it clearly states in the little disclaimer screen that comes up if you hit any key before logging in that school work comes first.
So go up to a person on facebook when comp’s are full and ask them to get off.
I didn’t realize that you were gauranteed a computer every time you want to use one. If the policy doesn’t state that they are for school work only, then I guess that’s not the policy. I’m sure that someone of your moral stature has never even entertained the thought of perusing facebook on a university computer. Stop whining like a little bitch and wait your turn like everyone using the computers did.
Amen, Harper. In my pre-iPhone days I used to pace the library until a computer was free.. and then I’d check my Facebook. So what?