Partway through first day of college

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 08/18/2014 at 12:22 • Filed to: None

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Parked behind a black pre-facelift 328i down the street from campus (parking permit? Puh-leeze) and have a two hour gap between classes to do something productive. My tablet and laptop are refusing to connect to the wifi for some reason, so I can't really do anything productive so I'm just using one of the crap university computers to Oppo until my next class. Yay.

Also it sure is nice to have round tires.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:25

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Hm, you start early. Classes for me dont start till Monday. My sisters start next Wednesday.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:28

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Go people watch! Best way to pass time between classes in college. There are so many "interesting" people on college campuses.

yamahog > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:30

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Read the title as "Partying through first day of college," so you should go do that.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > yamahog 08/18/2014 at 12:32

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How does one... party.
I somehow made it through high school without ever once being to a party. Too socially awkward.

RockRam > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:35

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Congrats on College. I just walked and so happy to not be going back. Make sure your updates are done on the computer if you're having Wifi issues.

yamahog > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:38

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Step away from the Oppo

Find party

Join party

CalzoneGolem > yamahog 08/18/2014 at 12:41

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Whoa ... you lost me at step 1.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 12:47

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Man, what I'd do to be able to go back and enjoy college again. Le sigh, unfortunately now I'd just be that creepy old dude in the corner.

Sam > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/18/2014 at 12:48

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Same here, I start most of my classes at noon on Monday. Some of my classes don't even start till mid-October, though.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > yamahog 08/18/2014 at 12:54

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I don't understand step 1.

Or step 2

I assume step 3 has something to do with disco.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 08/18/2014 at 12:55

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I have always been the creepy dude in the corner. Now I've upgraded to being the creepy hipster in the corner.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Sam 08/18/2014 at 12:55

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Really? Are they 1 credit classes or something?

Sam > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/18/2014 at 12:58

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They call it an 'accelerated' class, it meets 2 times a week for nearly 4 hours. But it means I have more free time to work. And one is a throwaway 'intro-to-college' course that is 1 credit.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Sam 08/18/2014 at 13:03

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4 hour class? That sounds like hell. I specifically made my schedule to avoid anything longer than a hour and a half. I'd rather my 4 back to back core classes than one four hour class.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 13:53

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WSU?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 08/18/2014 at 15:55

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Sho' nuff

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 17:16

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LOL they tried to convince me that they had great tech service (computers, wifi, etc.) but when I tested it... haha nice try

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 08/18/2014 at 21:15

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The wifi is so awful. SO. AWFUL.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 21:18

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I know! I asked what their speed was, but they couldn't tell me! I'm betting that it's something like 100mbits/s, but divided by around 2k people it is nothing basically LOL

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 08/18/2014 at 22:45

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Based on how my high school was set up, the campus itself has a fibre trunk line, and the routers are set up to allow 200kbps or so to each client, which is fine for pretty much everything except HD movie streaming. I believe the routers in the dorms and engineering building are set up to allow higher speeds because everything seemed more zippy in there. I have yet to run speedtest in each building and see which one is allowed the most bandwith per connection.

Again, this is a guess based on what I've seen in school districts and how I would do it if I were netadmin. But I'm not.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 22:48

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Hm, that's interesting. At my school the average dl speed is around 20mbits/sec which is great! The problem with WSU is when 2k people are all using a finite amount of bandwith....

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 08/18/2014 at 22:50

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My high school had every client limited to 128kbps, and since one internet connection was shared between the whole district, there were upwards of 4000 clients.

Yeah... think 2-second pings and 40% packet loss. Ugh.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 08/18/2014 at 22:50

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HOLY SHIT LOL that sounds terrible