So here we are again
One week. I couldn’t hold off on ranting about college any longer? Man I’m terrible.
There’s a lot to talk about Platteville and the school. It’s a really nice small town and the school is small enough to feel like it’s still a small community, but large enough that you still get the bustle of a school and feel like it’s alive and well.
The dorms are okay. I expected more of a space crunch, but was very surprised how well the room came together. It’s still getting some changes (I moved my desk a little so I stopped trying to view the TV when the loft was in the way) and I can’t get used to these chairs. It’s built almost like a rocking chair, but the legs are only bent, not curved. It’s like you have two stages of sitting: normal, then lean. Sometimes I start falling back into the “lean” stage and I panic as if I’m falling. No fun.
Technology took a massive turn. Being in the middle of nowhere, we don’t get a lot of bandwidth given to us, nor do we get a comprehensive wi-fi network covering campus. It also took a long time to get things working because they block my IRC (which I need), my DNS (which was being sent to Google’s public DNS), and every form of FTP and VPN. It doesn’t give me a lot of room to do some cool stuff. But hey, I manage.
Other technology just doesn’t like me. I bought a router and it doesn’t let people connect 90% of the time. I have my Wii here with homebrew, but it doesn’t play my roommates games (which I promised they would) and I keep on streetpassing the same guy every 12 hours with my 3DS and I don’t even know who he is.
Classes are ok.
Walking to classes is great, since I can stand in any spot and see the buildings where my classes are. They’re at most a 5 minute walk from each other. I wanted a bike because I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to walk fast enough and get to class on time. I was wrong.
My personal mantra of “It will all work out soon enough” tends to actually work here. Everyone (and by everyone, I mean my parents) were concerned about a lot of things not going right, or I wasn’t ready for it. Well…
I seem to be doing fine.
–Briguy
