Jim’s Piece of Space

Even in games, change is needed, and in EverQuest…it was my time. After spending just over a year and a half in <The Elitists> on The Tribunal, it was my time to cause a change. The direction of the guild was not in the same direction that I was wanting to go anymore and after much time debating it, I left. It was not as easy a choice as you might imagine; there are some really great people in that guild and I still feel like I owe them for all the help they have given me over the years. Hopefully this new direction is the right one and the game becomes a game again, and continues to remain fun. To all those in <The Elitists> that were my friends when I left, I hope we can still remain friends and there aren’t too many hard feelings. You guys still kick ass and you better keep doing so or I’ll drive to your house, smack you around and drink your beer and in the most non-gay way possible,I love you guys

As I haven’t actually told more than one person where I went, you can now reach me at “;tell maelin.superglu” or in game email at “SOE.EQ.Maelin.Superglu” (or at least I think, I’m at class right nowand don’t remember the syntax x.x) or leave me comments here / email me.

ITT Technical Institute, a technical school which is renowned for their high tech classrooms and advanced teaching techniques to prepare students for the information world of today. For a school which is supposed to be so technologically advanced and preparing students for a career in cutting edge technology, they are really bad at communicating. It isn’t exactly small things either that they don’t communicate, like teacher changes, classes canceled for the day, or the school closing early. I showed up to class on Tuesday morning at 8:20am or so, class started at 8:00am and around 9:00 to 9:15 am the Director finally came into the class and informed us that the class was too small and so no instructor had been assigned. Well, that’s bloody wonderful news, I just spend 90+ minutes driving up to the school to be told that I paid $1500+ for a class that doesn’t exist anymore. So what do we do about this new development? Am I going to get the money credited to my account? Nope, instead at 9:30 am I am told that I can either work out another class to take or I can hang around and go to the class that night at 6:00pm. With gas prices the way they are, there is no way I’m going to drive home, and sitting around for 8 and a half hours at the school is quite a large waste of time. While we are all figuring out what to do about this, the Assistant Director comes in and informs us that the class is going to be offered online since a few of the students are in their last quarter and can not attend the Tuesday night session. This is actually not a bad thing, I would love to take the class online; something that I haven’t done before and always thought might be kind of fun. Now it’s Wednesday and once again, they have changed their minds about this particular course; the Tuesday morning session is back on if we want to take it, which for once there was actually a phone call this time! Hopefully when I get home it will be on the message machine. Through all of this I have been checking the “Student Portal” to make sure that my courses are properly updated in the schools systems, not. Today it finally changed and shows me in the online class, which I still can not log into the “Distance Learning” website which tells me the assignments, due dates and reading assignments. So, I’ve paid $1500+ for a class that I’m not sure if it’s Tuesday morning, online or even if it’s offered at all. Seeing as I can’t log into the “Distance Learning” I would guess it’s not online, but the “Student Portal” tells me that it is online, and the Assistant Director confirms that I’m set for Tuesday mornings.

At this point, I really just want to get out of this school with a decently good grade point average (3.5+) and get on to a job where the information provided from all sources is consistent and correct. Maybe I’ll get out without a headache large enough to split a small planet into several pieces.

…that was this week, or the past couple of weeks really. My grades and all finally came in and wow I did a lot better than I was expecting, but still not quite as good as I hoped to. Ended up with two A’s, a B+ and a B, which comes out to a 3.625 and brings my overall GPA at ITT Tech up to a 3.33. Now we just have to figure out how to get the student portal to show my correct schedule for next quarter; which starts next week on Monday.

In other news, as if me actually doing well in school for once isn’t good in the first place…remember, I “graduated” high school with a 1.9…Briana is coming out to spend a week to a week and a half with me. I have known her for…gosh, it must be around five years or so by now and we have had a strong online relationship for the past eight months. I know, some of you are thinking online relationships don’t work, and this is all going to end badly, I/we will just get hurt; there is only one thing I have to say to you…STFU These last few months have truly been amazing and I would never think of changing one minute of them.

OH! one more thing about my classes; for the time being, my schedule for next quarter; assuming it actually was set the way I requested and paid for should look something like this (there are no days / times yet because I can’t remember)

IT320 WAN Technology and Application
IT222 Microsoft Network Operating System II
GE217 Composition II
GE273 Microeconomics