Stine and why I hate my uni.

[mothwing]

Stine is our shiny new system that's supposed to deal with the applications for our courses. E-Learning and all that. The problem with my university and E-Learning is that most of the staff think the photocopier is the most modern invention they can accommodate, so you can imagine how well this kind of thing has been received so far. It does not work and causes havoc, apart from a few faculties, most of the uni just aren't ready for this kind of thing. I hate Stine.

Why?

They sent me a password that does not work. 

IT DOES NOT WORK. 

At all. Not possible to log in, even though it should be, according to the material they sent me, from "October 2006".

Which means that either the user name (which for reasons best known to my uni is not simply my matric number but some... code thingy) is wrong or the password (which some idiot decided to type out in Arial, anyway, which means that it's anyone's guess what this "I" is. i? L? Who knows? It's pretty much up to me. I'm only hoping that the "0" thing is indeed a "0" and not a slim "O". Nah, it's a "0". Other than that... I had about 10 goes at it. Without result.) I sent a mail to what I can only hope is the right address, because of course there is no kind of support other than the slightly better informed IT students standing around on Campus who I will pester tomorrow. I already feel sorry for them.

I hate my university. 

Comments

[lordhellebore]

You. Scare. Me.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know. I scare myself sometimes.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Oh. Fuck.

I read that "I" thingy as a capital "i" and it worked, in my case. And luckily, I had a 0 and an O more or less next to each other, so I could see the differences... so yes, that slim O thing is a zero.

You know what? I guess they knew all kind of shit would happen. This is why there's no support contact info. They hate as nearly as much as we hate them.

[dstroyrofworlds.livejournal.com]

Lovely avatar! *giggles*dreamsaway*

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? so_severus makes the loveliest Alan Rickman icons, imho. *sighs*

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's our university. *nods* Let's make things worse. That's our motto.

No wonder the first thing Prof. Henkel did was pass me the attendance list when I came for my report topic - apparently, he doesn't trust Stine.

[dstroyrofworlds.livejournal.com]

I won't tell you my stories, they wouldn't it make any better....
instead I say....

I HATE MY UNI, TOO!!! *givesfivetakesfive*

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

YAY!! Glad to hear it!

Well... you know what I mean. Misery likes company. :P

But do share your stories whenever you feel like it, dearest. :) Even though they are probably going to make me miserable because even the problems will probably make me realise how much worse our Uni is in every respect. ^^