Surprisingly, I've really enjoyed all our RCC (Residential Computer Consultant) training and the sessions have mostly been very informative – many of them surprisingly so. A bunch of them have also been really funny. I liked those. They also have this policy of passing around sticks of gum to everyone in the room to keep them from falling asleep and I think that's the most brilliant idea. So, we learnt all kinds of stuff about networking, how to allow and disallow people from accessing the network (and thus the Interwebs), how the computer clusters work, why sexual harassment is not as cool as it initially seems, how we should all come to terms with Windows Vista's general shittiness, etc. There were also some rather memorable quotes from today's session such as one from our Residence Dean - "She calls him a bitch, he calls her a ho" – and one from our Senior Network Administrator – "The University shouldn't care if I'm freaking watching monkey porn on my computer." And such. Tomorrow is the last day of training and there is only one session of one hour, where we get to hear stories from past years' RCCs. Oh yes, and here's another memorable quote from our Senior Network Administrator – "Anyone got any good sexual harassment stories to share?"
Apart from that, my room is finally well organized, and if I may, shiny. There are loads of errands that I'd been wanting to run for a few months now and they're finally getting done. One of them was getting my blankets (which were used on the futon in our triple all last year) dry cleaned. Now I know how expensive that is – namely, enough to buy a new blanket. Another errand was getting framed the pieces of calligraphy that my calligraphy professor had written for me. Getting them properly framed would have cost about $60 and I wouldn't have wanted that anyway because it would have made them a pain to store. Instead, for $15, I bought some supplies (thick piece of cardboard and some 0.005mm thick transparent sheets) and framed them myself. I'm really pleased with how it's worked out. Perhaps I'll post a picture when the room is completed. Also, today I finally got my Microsoft bike after it'd been assembled by the bike shop and man, it is so superb. I went into Palo Alto for the first time on bike this (academic) year and I was simply stunned by how quickly I got there. I'm looking forward to some serious biking this year.
Apart from that, my room is finally well organized, and if I may, shiny. There are loads of errands that I'd been wanting to run for a few months now and they're finally getting done. One of them was getting my blankets (which were used on the futon in our triple all last year) dry cleaned. Now I know how expensive that is – namely, enough to buy a new blanket. Another errand was getting framed the pieces of calligraphy that my calligraphy professor had written for me. Getting them properly framed would have cost about $60 and I wouldn't have wanted that anyway because it would have made them a pain to store. Instead, for $15, I bought some supplies (thick piece of cardboard and some 0.005mm thick transparent sheets) and framed them myself. I'm really pleased with how it's worked out. Perhaps I'll post a picture when the room is completed. Also, today I finally got my Microsoft bike after it'd been assembled by the bike shop and man, it is so superb. I went into Palo Alto for the first time on bike this (academic) year and I was simply stunned by how quickly I got there. I'm looking forward to some serious biking this year.
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