BYU has given me yet another reason to want to transfer/ quit school. This semester began like every other semester, finding classrooms, fighting bookstore crowds, establishing your seat in class, etc. All of this is tolerable and expected. BUT, I have the haunting feeling that BYU is out to make my existance a horrible one. In my CS class we were given the task of finding a PIN and being able to log on to lab computers to do assignments. This was all well and good and I was pretty excited to have access to a lab computer, which has a faster connection that the Villa. (tangent) I did a test on the computer that is in my room and found out that the connection there is only 73.7K when I'm suppose to be getting 100K. If I'm paying $10 for 100K, well then, dammit, I Want my 100K!!! (/tangent)
Well, the first couple days of having access to a lab computer, I did just what any one would have done in my shoes, I started watching music videos. It was so wonderful not having to worry about a slow connection. Nightwish, Metallica, Incubus...all came through in fine quality and in large screen size. I was ecstatic at having the opportunity to catch hard to see music video online.
But this was not to last......
Coming back to my favorite lab computer a couple days later, I found that the ability to watch my beloved music videos was destroyed and that all access to streamed and downloaded videos was virtually squandered. After many, many attempts to bring back my treasured videos on different computers and using different methods, my dreams were shattered as I was forced to accept the fact that 'the Man' had blocked this ability on the admin. servers and there is no way to retrieve My Preciousss. So now, here I sit, using the CD function on my once prized lab computer, writing about how I hate BYU and want to transfer and am going to take the rest of the day to convince myself that the tuition price outweights such trivial details and I should just go play DDR to console myself.
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