Finally had my Graduate student orientation(s) the other week! First came my online iSchool orientation, which was a novel experience. A chatroom combined with a powerpoint while hearing someone go through the powerpoint. The on-campus one was a general graduate student orientation, in a theater that smelled like burgers.
I definitely got some much-needed information about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘complaints’
Becoming Oriented
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complaints, Drexel on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Inevitable
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apartment, complaints, learning experiences, omg wtf roommate?, philly, pictures on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s finally happened. Real life has encroached upon our untouchable haven of an apartment. I emerged from the shower to see a MOUSE run into my closet. Growing up on a (non-working) farm, I’m not wholly new to this kind of thing. But there, I had two good mousing cats who’d take care of [...]
The Drexel Shaft
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complaints, Drexel, philly on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite all the good things I’ve heard about Drexel as a Library School, I seem to have run into a lot of obnoxious bureaucracy (often referred to as “The Drexel Shaft”) in my dealings with them. My transcript was “misplaced,” which delayed my acceptance. My calls have often gone unanswered (and sometimes unreturned). I receive [...]
Vellum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged complaints, documents, manuscripts on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I, just like any other person, find holding a bunch of vellum leaves to be aesthetically pleasing, the faint scent of rotting animal that can hang around them puts me right off (and also brings me back to my middle school art room, where an animal died behind the wall and for weeks the [...]
