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[BlackFlyme]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffffff...............

I was doing my computers course midterm when our network decided it wanted to eat our tests.

Some people couldn't even access the test, apparently we weren't authorized to start them. Others could get into the test, but were told that they were not authorized to submit them when finished.

Some, like me, had the internet freeze up then shut itself down part-way through instead.

[Lagslayer]

maybe that's part of the test o_0

[Frumple]

... man, I'd love that. You walk into a room on test day. Teacher's gone, on every desk is a little notecard with the first clue.

Half the class ends up failing because they can't find their test. It'd be glorious.

[BlackFlyme]

Man, I wish it was some sort of nonsense like that.

No, it's just my school's online program being its usual semi-functioning self. The first week all e-mails sent out from our school accounts were caught by its own anti-spam programs because the settings were too strict. Not other people catching your e-mails in their spam-folder, but you catching your own e-mails as you try to send them out.

This is a very basic computers class. As in: "This is how you create a new folder!" type class, where the people taking it are either new to the concept of electricity, or only in the class because it is a requirement for the course.

I'm not even joking about that, our first assignment was to create a new folder, rename it, then create another new folder within the new folder and rename it again.

[itisnotlogical]

It feels like whenever I try to talk to people who describe themselves as "friendly", they half-listen to the first few things I say and then flat out fucking ignore me. I have problems speaking up and I know I don't usually have something amazingly interesting to say, but I can stand in front of people and say their name and they'll just ignore me or look at me like I'm an idiot. It's starting to piss me off. The sooner I can graduate and get away from these miserable fucks, the better.

[Putnam]

I have to keep telling myself that I don't know the whole situation...

but maybe it's not entirely their fault?

[itisnotlogical]

I have to keep telling myself that I don't know the whole situation...

but maybe it's not entirely their fault?

If it's something about me, then I don't know what that is. It's not like I've said anything about their mothers. Even just trying to say hello in passing, and they walk right on by like I'm not there.

[lue]

This is a very basic computers class. As in: "This is how you create a new folder!" type class, where the people taking it are either new to the concept of electricity, or only in the class because it is a requirement for the course.

I'm not even joking about that, our first assignment was to create a new folder, rename it, then create another new folder within the new folder and rename it again.

I am so, so sorry. Hopefully you can find tiny places here and there to make those tasks more fun. For example, did you dare blow everyone away by putting two folders inside the first one? Or perhaps a folder inside the folder inside the folder‽

[Frumple]

I am so, so sorry. Hopefully you can find tiny places here and there to make those tasks more fun. For example, did you dare blow everyone away by putting two folders inside the first one? Or perhaps a folder inside the folder inside the folder‽

Also, if you set it so the folders don't snap to the grid, you can make pictures! Smiley faces and whatnot. Similarly, when you hit spreadsheets, you can make pixel art by changing the background of varying cells. There's plenty of things to do to amuse yourself~

[BlackFlyme]

I am so, so sorry. Hopefully you can find tiny places here and there to make those tasks more fun. For example, did you dare blow everyone away by putting two folders inside the first one? Or perhaps a folder inside the folder inside the folder‽

The established rule is that we can go no further than three folders deep, with no more than 30 files in a folder. Any more is too confusing and time consuming, apparently.

If your computers crap out on you while you're taking a computers midterm... Who truly fails?

I do :V

[Frumple]

I'm not seeing a limitation on number of folders in a individual folder, there. You've got all the folders in the world to make art with!

[nenjin]

That sounds like the bestest class ever. Pay attention for 15 seconds, then zone out for 5 minutes while other people figure out what to do.

[kaenneth]

want to blow their fucking minds; edit a disk to contain a folder which is it's own subfolder.

Or the worlds biggest nested .zip file: http://www.steike.com/code/useless/zip-file-quine/droste.zip

[Frumple]

Oh yeah, another fun one, for when you hit spreadsheet functions: Max out every formula with nested functions that have absolutely no effect on the formula output. I'm particularly fond of nested NOT(NOT(...)) stuff when dealing with boolean junk.

[BlackFlyme]

That sounds like the bestest class ever. Pay attention for 15 seconds, then zone out for 5 minutes while other people figure out what to do.

It's two hours of the most tedious hell.

We are learning the very basics of Microsoft Word. We spend the first half-hour listening to the teacher, I spend the next 15 messing with word, then I'm done and stuck doing nothing until I can leave. Either that or the instructions are either incomprehensible or non-existent, in which case the teacher has to come around and help each student individually, which he has had to do at least twice so far this year.

I had completed the test 4 times, all of which couldn't go through the system, before the first hour was up. The test was to sort out a letter into paragraphs at designated points, change the font, bold the title, then add page numbers and insert an image on the title page.

This is basic stuff I learned in grade 6, why am I doing it again when I did a much more complicated computer engineering course in college last year?