Found a place where for $25.99/5 mo. you can download a rented version of Mini-Tab, a program I need to use for my Statistics course. This sounded perfect. I went to register, first as a non-academic because it looked faster and easier. First a screen appeared that said it wasn’t valid. Fine. I went to register as a student, started filled out the form again, attached the copies of my student ID, and meanwhile, I get an e-mail notice with a password saying I’m registered (I suppose, as a non-academic.) Go again to download the software, and the site, supposedly one on the up and up, claims they don’t have that program. Fine. I finish filling out the student form and e-mail it out. Do you honestly think I’ll get an answer? And if so, don’t you just know it’s going to say that I can’t because I’m registered already as non-academic?
Then realized I’m supposed to have read an essay for New Media by Monday morning. There is no copy available online. I cannot order the book and get it by Monday. The libraries will be closed Sunday and I work all day tomorrow. (Why didn’t I see that part of the syllabus?) I did take out one of the movies to get a head start on that part, but saw it only halfway through before I had to run it back in on a two-day loan policy. Did purchase another hypertext novel online.
And, I have a Stat exam on Wednesday, for which again, I can’t do the hand homework and get in there when the computer lab is open. Meanwhile, I’ve gone to church and floated above it for an exercise in architectural space. God wasn’t home.
This isn’t working out very well. Oh, back to the good old days when homework could be done at home!
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
You need not read anything for Monday’s class. We’ll be covering Barthes in lecture discussion form, ideas taken from S/Z.