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I don't want to be in school anymore
Okay, I have shocking news for everyone. The news is that my college (dramatically unlike every other college in the goddamn country and probably the world) is a bureaucratic nightmare.
They have:
A) a terrible website. I spend at least ten minutes searching it every time I need to call someone, and in the end never do find the number for the right department and always have to ask them to forward me.
B) a terrible organization. I called the front desk to ask about MBTA passes and they told me that it was a Student Life matter, so I asked to be forwarded to Student Life. I talked to the guy there for a few minutes before he realized what I wanted, and he said that MBTA passes were his domain but semester MBTA passes were in Student Activities -- or maybe Student Affairs, he couldn't remember. Upon checking he said that it was Student Activities, but that it was currently being called the Leadership Development Program. Because why wouldn't they sell bus passes? Then I was sent to an answering machine. The last three times I've left messages on Simmons answering machines (with messages almost but not quite like "I CAN'T FILL OUT THE FAFSA UNTIL YOU BASTARDS CALL ME BACK") I've heard nothing from them. I don't think people actually work in these departments -- they're just crewed by answering machines.
C) a terrible method of spreading information. They put out a spamtastic newsletter which prints at least twice a goddamn day with sometimes as many as twenty posts per newsletter; frankly I don't have the time or the interest to read them, so if they're lucky I skim the headlines before deleting it. Usually these headlines are something like "Here are our featured books of the week!" and "Sex and the City Marathon Night!" (Those are real headlines from this morning's print.) Only, apparently, sometimes sandwiched between book recs and Sex and the City marathons, they inform you of things like when to sign up for next semester's classes. I went by their academic calendars... which are, of course, horribly wrong.
My dirty secret is that I don't even really want a master's in library science anymore -- I'm only still here out of the vague momentum that library degrees are somewhat relevant to the database-mongering I'm doing now, and the job I have is quite thoroughly unobjectionable.
They have:
A) a terrible website. I spend at least ten minutes searching it every time I need to call someone, and in the end never do find the number for the right department and always have to ask them to forward me.
B) a terrible organization. I called the front desk to ask about MBTA passes and they told me that it was a Student Life matter, so I asked to be forwarded to Student Life. I talked to the guy there for a few minutes before he realized what I wanted, and he said that MBTA passes were his domain but semester MBTA passes were in Student Activities -- or maybe Student Affairs, he couldn't remember. Upon checking he said that it was Student Activities, but that it was currently being called the Leadership Development Program. Because why wouldn't they sell bus passes? Then I was sent to an answering machine. The last three times I've left messages on Simmons answering machines (with messages almost but not quite like "I CAN'T FILL OUT THE FAFSA UNTIL YOU BASTARDS CALL ME BACK") I've heard nothing from them. I don't think people actually work in these departments -- they're just crewed by answering machines.
C) a terrible method of spreading information. They put out a spamtastic newsletter which prints at least twice a goddamn day with sometimes as many as twenty posts per newsletter; frankly I don't have the time or the interest to read them, so if they're lucky I skim the headlines before deleting it. Usually these headlines are something like "Here are our featured books of the week!" and "Sex and the City Marathon Night!" (Those are real headlines from this morning's print.) Only, apparently, sometimes sandwiched between book recs and Sex and the City marathons, they inform you of things like when to sign up for next semester's classes. I went by their academic calendars... which are, of course, horribly wrong.
My dirty secret is that I don't even really want a master's in library science anymore -- I'm only still here out of the vague momentum that library degrees are somewhat relevant to the database-mongering I'm doing now, and the job I have is quite thoroughly unobjectionable.
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