posted 2007/07/17 at 17:28
I'm writing this entry from the computer lab in UT's Student Union. Once again I found a great job that required me to submit an application through Taleo.net, and all the computers at home still refuse to submit any forms through the Website. (I believe that this is a problem with our cable company/ISP.) Since I really didn't want to pass up on applying for this job (localizing game text for Nintendo), I hightailed it out here for the second time this month, and I can only hope that either I get a full-time job here soon so I don't have to keep going out here, or at the very least that our cable company figures out what the Toot is causing us to not be able to fully use certain Websites at home and fix the problem. (Apologies to the peanut gallery, but this is one problem that switching to Macs wouldn't fix.)
I can't say that I feel too strongly either way about returning to campus like this. I did have both good and bad experiences at UT, and in all honesty near the end there I was kind of glad to get out of here, although that was more due to fatigue than anything else. Still, this wasn't a situation like I had at the private school I went to where there were just so many bad experiences there that returning to campus was painful. I'm just feeling rather business-like here; I came, I finished the application, and now I'm taking the opportunity to write a blog entry while I'm here so I can avoid rush hour traffic before I head to Old Navy to pick up a nice shirt to wear for a job interview later this week.
I haven't exactly gone to visit any of my old professors here, in part because my time here is so limited, and in part because I don't know whether or not they're even coming to campus on a regular basis for the summer sessions. Pretty much everyone I knew here as a student graduated by now (save my composition students), so I guess I don't have to worry about that so much either. One of these days I would like to come say hi to a few of my old professors here and see what they're up to, but that will probably have to wait a little while here.
The physical changes to the campus are what I'm noticing the most right now. Following UT's merger with the Medical University of Ohio a year ago, the university debuted a new logo, and of course now they're plastering it wherever they can. They've also erected new, more informative signs on the parking lots, and there are more maps around campus to help visitors find their way around. What's funny to me, though, is that the tagline for the football team's upcoming seasonn is "Building Champions." I suppose that's the nicest way they can think of to say, "Yeah, a few years ago we won a bunch of conference titles and sent Chester Taylor and Bruce Gradkowski to the NFL, but now we're going to be lucky to break .500 on the year."
How about using a web proxy?
http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
Or, if you're already using one, how about not using it?
I wasn't using one before, but all the ones I tried last night were really slow, assumedly because I was trying to use them near peak hours. As it turns out, now I've found another job to apply for that uses *another* online application system that won't load on this computer. This is getting to be very very not fun.
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