Sigh

So the weather's cooled off a bit, making for a nicer day (especially in my office). However, this is overshadowed by the fact that IT here is terrible.

First, the computer software that is supposed to be on all public computers for students is not usable because the university has not yet paid to renew its license. Of course, the students said to me that it was available, but none of them checked until the day before the homework (which uses it) was due. Granted, I should have gone over there myself, but I was assured that it would be there.

Then, I cannot login to the right place to set up my webpage. Another annoyance that isn't urgent, but still, this is something that should be available as soon as I arrive, and well, they are not the most adept.

And finally, today my ethernet connection is not working, so I'm using the (extremely slow today) wireless connection. There may be an outage, and I'm about to call about this, but I wanted to complain before it got fixed. Also it is rather irritating because if you are only connected with the wireless, you are treated as being off campus, meaning anything I want to do that would require being on-site (because apparently they do not understand how to successfully implement cyber-security here), I cannot.

Plus I forgot to print out my notes for class which means going upstairs to do so. I know, that sounds like a stupid complaint but for some reason we cannot print to the office printer remotely, only the departmental secretary can, so I have to send her a file to print out and blah blah blah. I'm sure in the next three years I'll get my own printer, but still...