Wednesday, May 12, 2010

fucking institutions

i'm reading the baghdad blog at the moment [in book form] so i know that in comparison i really have nothing to complain about because the likelihood of me being bombed right now, in a uni, in melbourne in australia is very very slim, but in terms of privileged, higher educated, western, capitalist, 20 year old gen y girl problems i have quite a bit to complain about.
firstly, rmit, when you built the new media and communications, i'm sorry, applied communications, i can't keep up with all your name changing so forgive me for being primitive, building, did you realise that the space aged design needed an instruction manual? the teachers and even the IT people have no idea how to change the images projected onto the screens when the equipment has a shit day and the touch screen ipad remote thing doesn't want to work, they barely know how to keep the lights from fading after 10 minutes of no action like a screen saver that monitors the inactivity of people sitting in a class room, or even simply turn them on and off. did you also notice that after you spent all your money on these ridiculous toys that the one computer lab in the building that us media students can access with out security cards is an advertising and communication design lab with insufficient media applications and the inconvenient detail of students constantly being kicked out for classes that have apparently booked the room despite there being no indication of this? then you go and turn our old lab into an art building and stick a fat disgruntled employee in there telling anyone who's not doing foundation studies in the field of fine art to piss off. then you go and put the secret student computer lab that used to be across the street and only ever had about 10 people in it and therefore a million free computers because only those savvy enough to look outside the library for a computer knew it was there, on campus, so that if you are lucky enough to get on a computer you then reach the awkward conclusion of not being able to get onto personal emails because this is somehow seen as dissenting activity and not fit for university despite the fact that many of us are conducting interviews with people as part of our many projects and need to access emails to coordinate these interviews. you also disallow us from access facebook where my tute group has a project to run, coordinating a facebook group for a user generated ABC website and in order to do said assignment need to actually get on facebook.then you block us from accessing blogger so we can complain about, or use it to present a project which is what we're aiming to do.
bloody freakin hell.
and don't even get me started on the bloody train leaving early today. 9.37 buddy, it says it on the timetable. 9.35 is not 9.37. i almost punched out the smug ticket selling lady when i purchased my ticket and she said "you've just missed the last one". i fucking know bitch, i saw it drive off as i came out of the park at 9.35.

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