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Nov. 2nd, 2014 10:52 pmWho got MS-DOS on her macbook?
THIS GIRL'S GOT MS-DOS ON HER MACBOOK.
I've been playing my old childhood favourite, One Must Fall: 2097, which is basically like a hardcore Pacific Rim where robots smash each other to bits. I never knew it was by Epic Games though! Now I know which company had Jazz Jackrabbit. Why, the people behind Gears of War, of course.
I got the hang of it pretty fast and I'm playing on the hardest difficulty level already. Surprised my hyper-competitive inner 8-year-old got the hang of it again so fast!
Now I just have to start rebuilding my entire MS-DOS game library.
In other news, I've been plagued pretty constantly with thoughts of dropping out. I thought talking to my prof who wanted to see me because the "faculty was concerned" would help de-stress my situation but in many ways he unintentionally made it worse. I was trying to say "I'm not a lazy student, I've just been plagued with non-stop money and eviction issues." which got the silent treatment, followed by "Well it's behind you now, so I'm just here to talk about the present."
But... it's not... behind me? ._.
I could see he really did not want to address any personal issues so I stopped trying to reason and he told me "You have to apply yourself more if you want to pass, and if you fail a core course, you're not coming back." and "You have lots of work ahead of you" and "Contact your profs right now to catch up"
What kind of fairy tale land do you live in? I felt mildly insulted but decided swallowing my pride was the only way to go. What did I have to gain by showing my personal displeasure?
Honestly, school has just been one giant haemorrhoid on my ass and I should probably just drop and try again next year. I mean, if they're gonna throw me out anyway...
It's just... after living in the Adult World for the past two years, it blows my mind how rigid the entire educational system is.
There's a lot of assignments that I have no way in hell of doing because it's group work and being excluded so often has started giving me anxiety. I wish there was more independent work.
Anyway I'm homework binging every day for the next few weeks until I can prove I deserve to pass with a 50%. I might just drop History since it's not a req (or plead about getting my mark to a 50), pull up my Business since she seems easy to appease, and hammer out theory, lighting, digital and print until it's all done.
Anyway, I guess I should stop playing DOS games and start sleeping around 9am. I hate waking up at 6am every single freaking day. I couldn't sleep in at all over the weekend because I had to go to a store at the opposite end of town. What the hell.
THIS GIRL'S GOT MS-DOS ON HER MACBOOK.
I've been playing my old childhood favourite, One Must Fall: 2097, which is basically like a hardcore Pacific Rim where robots smash each other to bits. I never knew it was by Epic Games though! Now I know which company had Jazz Jackrabbit. Why, the people behind Gears of War, of course.
I got the hang of it pretty fast and I'm playing on the hardest difficulty level already. Surprised my hyper-competitive inner 8-year-old got the hang of it again so fast!
Now I just have to start rebuilding my entire MS-DOS game library.
In other news, I've been plagued pretty constantly with thoughts of dropping out. I thought talking to my prof who wanted to see me because the "faculty was concerned" would help de-stress my situation but in many ways he unintentionally made it worse. I was trying to say "I'm not a lazy student, I've just been plagued with non-stop money and eviction issues." which got the silent treatment, followed by "Well it's behind you now, so I'm just here to talk about the present."
But... it's not... behind me? ._.
I could see he really did not want to address any personal issues so I stopped trying to reason and he told me "You have to apply yourself more if you want to pass, and if you fail a core course, you're not coming back." and "You have lots of work ahead of you" and "Contact your profs right now to catch up"
What kind of fairy tale land do you live in? I felt mildly insulted but decided swallowing my pride was the only way to go. What did I have to gain by showing my personal displeasure?
Honestly, school has just been one giant haemorrhoid on my ass and I should probably just drop and try again next year. I mean, if they're gonna throw me out anyway...
It's just... after living in the Adult World for the past two years, it blows my mind how rigid the entire educational system is.
There's a lot of assignments that I have no way in hell of doing because it's group work and being excluded so often has started giving me anxiety. I wish there was more independent work.
Anyway I'm homework binging every day for the next few weeks until I can prove I deserve to pass with a 50%. I might just drop History since it's not a req (or plead about getting my mark to a 50), pull up my Business since she seems easy to appease, and hammer out theory, lighting, digital and print until it's all done.
Anyway, I guess I should stop playing DOS games and start sleeping around 9am. I hate waking up at 6am every single freaking day. I couldn't sleep in at all over the weekend because I had to go to a store at the opposite end of town. What the hell.
