Bloody hellfire, the school computers in the main computer lab have quad-cores and 20 gigs of RAM each! That's more than my home machine! Granted, my machine is built mostly out of the things that were left over after I, um installed some airware on some computers slated for donation or recycling at my dad's company, but still...
Bloody hell, your school computer lab has to have gotten a sweet budget and/or deal. The IT people must be ecstatic. Is it a public or private school?
First of all, it's IT
person, singular. And he, honestly, creeps me out a little bit. Once, in my freshman year, I nearly bumped into him in one of the back halls. He said, "excuse me, Mr. (My last name)." Walking away, I realized I had never spoken to him before. O.O
(I am currently formulating a theory that he is a steampunk gnome with a pituitary problem, which actually has a surprising amount of evidence in its favor.)
It's a private school, but a poor private school, so we rely a lot on grants and whatnot. Title1, for example. Actually, one of my hobbies is whenever we visit a public school for a competition or whatever, I try to calculate how much they spent on their fancy new cafeteria with the high ceiling and the giant window, or the fancy decoration (up to and including expensive plastic plants). Those last two examples were from the one of the poorest-performing schools in the area. Despite having the lowest draw pool, and drawing mainly from an area which has an environment that is not particularly conducive to nutured intelligence, we have some of the highest test scores around. (And that's not factoring in the fact the we don't massage the numbers, unlike some of the others.) Given that, in nine cases out of ten, the teachers and faculty actually
give a crap about their students, we could surely use the money a lot better than some of our public counterparts.
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Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O (Read 14842404 times)