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Published On: Mar 24, 2006 10:10 PM
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Published On: Mar 24, 2006 10:10 PM
Stuffed
or, Why Me?
I have been in the throes of what is now amounting
to a two-week relationship with a cold. It travels throughout my torso and head.
It visits evil everywhere it visits. I won't get into the gory details. Rick
should be happy he has been in Mexico since Wednesday though. It's just not fun.
Because, I don't get sick. Well, not that much anyway, and certainly not for two weeks. It's just dumb.
We had good news at school last week. Ursinus's four applicants for the Goldwater award all won. Doesn't sound like a big deal until you put it in the context that: no one won 5; we were the smallest school of 15 to achieve this; other four-winners included Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Hopkins. We had more than Yale or Harvard. I deserve no credit for this win (it's one of the awards handled almost completely by faculty advisors), but I got some anyway, so that's nice.
I am now in the midst of beginning a war, however. Ursinus gives everyone a laptop. Seriously, if you walk down Main Street, they might just throw one at you. However, and here is the pick-ready bone: they only have reliable wireless in the library, commons, and the major auditorium classrooms. I think I have mentioned (here or elsewhere) that I want to incorporate blogging in my class next semester, which, ideally, would include, oh, I don't know, actually reading them and writing them in class. I have talked to some tech people and they are suggesting I try to get one of the classrooms for which there's an ethernet port for every seat. Seriously. I mean. God. If you're going to go through all of the trouble to get every freaking person on campus a laptop, might you not want to follow that up with wireless access five years later (they started the laptop initiative in fall 2000)? I guess they're on a ten-year plan. This of course continues my hate/hate affair with technology people in higher education which began at UD with the ghettoization of Mac users and various other indignities and continued at CCBC with innumerable inanities. Maybe this is business I should get into: the wholesale firing of college tech departments.
Tomorrow is a day-long choir rehearsal and then Sunday is a brief AC trip to see if we can't buy Papa a new pair of shoes.
A far more serious post will be up after that with reflections on my visit home. For now, this will suffice.
Because, I don't get sick. Well, not that much anyway, and certainly not for two weeks. It's just dumb.
We had good news at school last week. Ursinus's four applicants for the Goldwater award all won. Doesn't sound like a big deal until you put it in the context that: no one won 5; we were the smallest school of 15 to achieve this; other four-winners included Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Hopkins. We had more than Yale or Harvard. I deserve no credit for this win (it's one of the awards handled almost completely by faculty advisors), but I got some anyway, so that's nice.
I am now in the midst of beginning a war, however. Ursinus gives everyone a laptop. Seriously, if you walk down Main Street, they might just throw one at you. However, and here is the pick-ready bone: they only have reliable wireless in the library, commons, and the major auditorium classrooms. I think I have mentioned (here or elsewhere) that I want to incorporate blogging in my class next semester, which, ideally, would include, oh, I don't know, actually reading them and writing them in class. I have talked to some tech people and they are suggesting I try to get one of the classrooms for which there's an ethernet port for every seat. Seriously. I mean. God. If you're going to go through all of the trouble to get every freaking person on campus a laptop, might you not want to follow that up with wireless access five years later (they started the laptop initiative in fall 2000)? I guess they're on a ten-year plan. This of course continues my hate/hate affair with technology people in higher education which began at UD with the ghettoization of Mac users and various other indignities and continued at CCBC with innumerable inanities. Maybe this is business I should get into: the wholesale firing of college tech departments.
Tomorrow is a day-long choir rehearsal and then Sunday is a brief AC trip to see if we can't buy Papa a new pair of shoes.
A far more serious post will be up after that with reflections on my visit home. For now, this will suffice.
Posted: Fri - March 24, 2006 at 10:10 PM |