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gnort · 09-03-2003, 04:11 PM

I just moved onto the college campus (Framingham State College) a few days ago and things are looking like shit. Sure the dorms are ok and im enjoying myself, but the wireless network set up around the campus very much doesnt work in the dorms...and the ethernet ports dont work either, meaning i have to go to the library to actually use the internet. And this is where i am as i type this. This supposed high tech campus is letting me down a little more every day.

I just had to vent a little.

On a different note, when viewed from above, my dorm looks like a swastika. I live in a 10 story symbok of hate.

im2smrt4u · 09-03-2003, 04:31 PM

Hey now, the swastika wasn't always a symbol of hate. It would be better to think of your dorm as a 10 story symbol of luck!

SecretMethod70 · 09-03-2003, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by im2smrt4u
Hey now, the swastika wasn't always a symbol of hate. It would be better to think of your dorm as a 10 story symbol of luck!

The symbol the nazi's used was the mirror image of the one that is associated with luck, so look which way the points are going and maybe your dorm really IS lucky!

battlemouth · 09-03-2003, 04:44 PM

some of my friends went to framingham but they transfered out because they hated it.

lurkette · 09-03-2003, 05:02 PM

My mom just reminded my about when she and my dad dropped me off at college. We were waiting in an endless line of cars to unload our stuff in front of the dorm, and there were all these very perky, very blonde RAs doing "dorm cheers" and singing welcome to campus songs. I said "I think I made a mistake."

As it turns out, I made fairly instant friends with a bunch of other morose and cynical outcasts and although the first few weeks (hell, the first six months) were very difficult, and I wanted to transfer out a number of times, I was glad I stayed where I was and gave it a chance.

I hope you hit your stride, and perhaps you can make a place for yourself by lobbying for better internet service.

DelayedReaction · 09-03-2003, 07:48 PM

Hey, it's a new environment. Keep your eyes open, get involved in clubs with people who share your interests, and you might just start to enjoy college.

It took me six months to find a group of people who I discovered I enjoyed hanging out with regularly. Now I'm president of the club, have made countless friends, and have really found that I'm enjoying college and most of the aspects around it.

Everything is a question of perspective. Head out, find people you dig, and realize that things are only as miserable as you let them be.

Blistex · 09-03-2003, 07:51 PM

Rez sucks, as soon as you make friends get together and rent an apartment or duplex or something.

Thankfully I was able to get a basement apartment (where I am now) and I scam my landlord's cable internet connection with my trusty router!

Sledge · 09-03-2003, 08:34 PM

The network's fucked at my college too; stupid people who don't patch their computers or have antivirus are making it die. RESENTMENT.

onodrim · 09-03-2003, 08:38 PM

Sorry to hear things got off to a bad start. The first few weeks are always the hardest. Like a lot of people have said, just find things and people on campus that you feel happy and comfortable with.
I completely understand how you feel about the crappy internet connection. MY first year at college, I went in expecting great things from IT. Then I found out that the "fast connection" barely beat my 56K at home, and almost none of the file sharing programs I used worked, due to some wierd networking stuff. Besdies that, the connection to our dorm frequently cut out. However, you just learn to adjust to it in any way you can, and things will start to look up.
I hope the next few days go better for you! Try to get a fresh perspective on things, you'll feel better.

gnort · 09-04-2003, 06:50 AM

thanks for all the advise folks. Here i am back in the library...still no wireless network working in the dorms...ugh. I just finished up an Expository writing class and i had found it a little disturbing that my english teacher hadnt read The Great Gatsby...i dont know, maybe it's just me. On an up-note, at the end of the semester we have to watched the Matrix and write a paper about it, that could get interesting.

oh...and btw, my building is very swastika-esque

Averett · 09-04-2003, 07:01 AM

It's probably a good thing that you don't have internet in your room. It means you'll have to leave your room every now and again

Ganguro · 09-04-2003, 07:45 AM

Get over the internet thing, as a former Campus IT person at my previous college, that stuff usually is fucked the first month of classes and then gets fixed after the excitement of students moving in dies down. Our school was pretty on top of things with the Resnet, but the servers were getting hammered constantly by all the freshman and kids trying to d/l stuff the first month they got back. USe this as an opportunity to get out of your room and make friends and do new things. Dont go to the library to dick around on the computer and bitch on the TFP, someone could really use that computer to type a paper or do something important... that always pissed me off when i needed to do research at the libraries..

Hang in there, it'll get better if you work at it, welcome to a very awkward phase in your life

Enjoy it!

gnort · 09-04-2003, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by Ganguro
Dont go to the library to dick around on the computer and bitch on the TFP, someone could really use that computer to type a paper or do something important... that always pissed me off when i needed to do research at the libraries..

Im not using the library's computer...Ive got my laptop and the library and a select few buildings have the wireless network up. It's not like im going to the library religiously, only once or twice a day to check my email and such. Plus teachers are alreayd assigning work that I need to get off of our school's website. I figure while im here i might as well bitch and moan on the TFP for a bit

Anyway, the problem isnt that kids are downloading to much, it's that the IT people are trying to deal with the various viruses and wurms that are going around, so the network is down. So if you need to get on the internet you must travel outside the dorm area to even remotely get a signal. Anywho...i gotta get back to ordering a couple books that i need for my Expository writing class.

greytone · 09-04-2003, 04:09 PM

My second or third year in college we were happy when the college bought two Macintoshes to be shared by 5 dorms. It was first come first server...and that was almost never a problem. I never heard of the internet until the last year of my post grad work.

I guess times have changed.

09-03-2003, 04:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
gnort Psycho Location: MA	College: Good and Bad I just moved onto the college campus (Framingham State College) a few days ago and things are looking like shit. Sure the dorms are ok and im enjoying myself, but the wireless network set up around the campus very much doesnt work in the dorms...and the ethernet ports dont work either, meaning i have to go to the library to actually use the internet. And this is where i am as i type this. This supposed high tech campus is letting me down a little more every day. I just had to vent a little. On a different note, when viewed from above, my dorm looks like a swastika. I live in a 10 story symbok of hate. __________________ You had me at Qapla'

09-03-2003, 04:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
im2smrt4u Beer Aficionado Location: Rancho Cucamonga, CA	Hey now, the swastika wasn't always a symbol of hate. It would be better to think of your dorm as a 10 story symbol of luck! __________________ Starkizzer Fan Club - President & Founder

09-03-2003, 04:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
battlemouth Robot Lovin' Location: Boston	some of my friends went to framingham but they transfered out because they hated it. __________________ like a bullet through a flock of doves

09-03-2003, 05:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	My mom just reminded my about when she and my dad dropped me off at college. We were waiting in an endless line of cars to unload our stuff in front of the dorm, and there were all these very perky, very blonde RAs doing "dorm cheers" and singing welcome to campus songs. I said "I think I made a mistake." As it turns out, I made fairly instant friends with a bunch of other morose and cynical outcasts and although the first few weeks (hell, the first six months) were very difficult, and I wanted to transfer out a number of times, I was glad I stayed where I was and gave it a chance. I hope you hit your stride, and perhaps you can make a place for yourself by lobbying for better internet service. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

09-03-2003, 07:48 PM	#6 (permalink)
DelayedReaction BFG Builder Location: University of Maryland	Hey, it's a new environment. Keep your eyes open, get involved in clubs with people who share your interests, and you might just start to enjoy college. It took me six months to find a group of people who I discovered I enjoyed hanging out with regularly. Now I'm president of the club, have made countless friends, and have really found that I'm enjoying college and most of the aspects around it. Everything is a question of perspective. Head out, find people you dig, and realize that things are only as miserable as you let them be. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, you must be having an orgasm.

09-03-2003, 07:51 PM	#7 (permalink)
Blistex Psycho Location: Tiger I Turret	Rez sucks, as soon as you make friends get together and rent an apartment or duplex or something. Thankfully I was able to get a basement apartment (where I am now) and I scam my landlord's cable internet connection with my trusty router!

09-03-2003, 08:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
Sledge Pasture Bedtime	The network's fucked at my college too; stupid people who don't patch their computers or have antivirus are making it die. RESENTMENT.

09-03-2003, 08:38 PM	#9 (permalink)
onodrim Cosmically Curious Location: Chicago, IL	Sorry to hear things got off to a bad start. The first few weeks are always the hardest. Like a lot of people have said, just find things and people on campus that you feel happy and comfortable with. I completely understand how you feel about the crappy internet connection. MY first year at college, I went in expecting great things from IT. Then I found out that the "fast connection" barely beat my 56K at home, and almost none of the file sharing programs I used worked, due to some wierd networking stuff. Besdies that, the connection to our dorm frequently cut out. However, you just learn to adjust to it in any way you can, and things will start to look up. I hope the next few days go better for you! Try to get a fresh perspective on things, you'll feel better. __________________ "The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides" -Carl Sagan

09-04-2003, 06:50 AM	#10 (permalink)
gnort Psycho Location: MA	thanks for all the advise folks. Here i am back in the library...still no wireless network working in the dorms...ugh. I just finished up an Expository writing class and i had found it a little disturbing that my english teacher hadnt read The Great Gatsby...i dont know, maybe it's just me. On an up-note, at the end of the semester we have to watched the Matrix and write a paper about it, that could get interesting. oh...and btw, my building is very swastika-esque __________________ You had me at Qapla'

09-04-2003, 07:01 AM	#11 (permalink)
Averett Is In Love Location: I'm workin' on it	It's probably a good thing that you don't have internet in your room. It means you'll have to leave your room every now and again __________________ Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

09-04-2003, 07:45 AM	#12 (permalink)
Ganguro Army of Me	Get over the internet thing, as a former Campus IT person at my previous college, that stuff usually is fucked the first month of classes and then gets fixed after the excitement of students moving in dies down. Our school was pretty on top of things with the Resnet, but the servers were getting hammered constantly by all the freshman and kids trying to d/l stuff the first month they got back. USe this as an opportunity to get out of your room and make friends and do new things. Dont go to the library to dick around on the computer and bitch on the TFP, someone could really use that computer to type a paper or do something important... that always pissed me off when i needed to do research at the libraries.. Hang in there, it'll get better if you work at it, welcome to a very awkward phase in your life Enjoy it!

09-04-2003, 04:09 PM	#14 (permalink)
greytone Junkie	My second or third year in college we were happy when the college bought two Macintoshes to be shared by 5 dorms. It was first come first server...and that was almost never a problem. I never heard of the internet until the last year of my post grad work. I guess times have changed. __________________ I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"