Post by Donald on Jul 26, 2009 23:25:59 GMT -5
So here's a list of the things i was doing up until my exile.
Friday May 29th, I have a huge banquet to put on for a club that I'm the president of.
June 4th, huge final project due for a mandatory class that if I don't get working, I fail the class, and essentially have to take another year of school.
I also had 6 labs due for an independent research class. I had to develop 6 labs for use in a computer security course at our school. None of these were ready and I was going to be gone for a week. I had to have a problem and solution prepared for each of the six labs, and have it prepped and organized in a way that it was a canned lab when I handed it over to my professor.
June 4-7th, I'm visiting my girlfriend for the first time since December to see her sister's wedding.
June 8-12 Finals, but this is very minimal worry. This is when I planned to start having time and really contributing to the game.
June 15 - I start an internship. That's it, I have nothing else I have to do. Well, except mediocre things like defend myself in a lawsuit, etc. But for the most part, I am free with oodles of additional hours on my plate.
So to start with the BIG event, the banquet. I am the president of this club, putting on a banquet that cost us $6k last year. The club has no trouble paying for the event... but the location won't let us pay with the club's funds directly. So that's $6000 I have to pay OUT OF POCKET for this club event. I had maybe $1k in my account, and had to pay for my sublease in the summer... How am I supposed to do this? I ran around for two whole days in a panic that the event would be shut down due to not being able to pay out of my own pocket. Eventually, this got resolved by my department stepping in, along with contracts office at Cal Poly saying we refuse to have me pay out of pocket, and the location of banquet refused to speak to us in any fashion until the day of the banquet. That was very very stressful.
This banquet had 9 large companies represented at it, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, and more. It was a Computer Science Awards Banquet, so it was a huge event. 120 people in attendance between companies, students, important people who provide thousands of dollars in scholarships, faculty, department chair, and Dean of the college.
This is an event that I am the head of, in charge of everything. Me and my vice president were giving a speech throughout the event, and I prepared the entire speech myself. Our group has 11 officers, I had to pick up the slack on at least 3 o 4 on the last week that the event was occuring on because they DID NOTHING. (or close to)
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Vacation time. As mentioned, I haven't seen my girlfriend since December, so I am not cutting my time with her short to play this game. In fact, if I can help it, I'm not cutting my time short to finish the boatload of work that's piled up from me planning for the banquet and not doing any of it. So this is a weekend of me not doing anything but enjoying my girlfriend.
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Classwork.
So I have a huge project for a programming class. I have to program a board with something new, something i have to teach myself how to do, and purchase the materials for. The materials come with no documentation, so it's hack and guess and hope for the best.
I had six labs I needed were a huge difficulty. It's all about computer security. Each lab was completely independent of each other, so I had to learn completely new things for every lab I put together, and I knew nothing at the start of the quarter. I don't think I even want to get started on the labs themselves -_-. I went through many more labs that just didn't work and I had to abandoned, but I needed six completed labs to hand in, no matter how many I attempted.
Anyways, with me going on vacation, and the quarter ending like right away, I had to get these done ahead of time, so I really didn't have time to be on the boards.
During this period of time, Gabriela showed me the thread saying where Mirela got replaced, and there was a patch of threads I never got to, and somehow this turned into a bunch of suspicion on me.
It was horribly disappointing to find that I had been exiled the day I returned from my last big event. My finals I was not worried about, and my internship is easy to deal with. As soon as I clock out, I'm done with work. Unlike school where I'm still working until the wee hours of the morning...
Friday May 29th, I have a huge banquet to put on for a club that I'm the president of.
June 4th, huge final project due for a mandatory class that if I don't get working, I fail the class, and essentially have to take another year of school.
I also had 6 labs due for an independent research class. I had to develop 6 labs for use in a computer security course at our school. None of these were ready and I was going to be gone for a week. I had to have a problem and solution prepared for each of the six labs, and have it prepped and organized in a way that it was a canned lab when I handed it over to my professor.
June 4-7th, I'm visiting my girlfriend for the first time since December to see her sister's wedding.
June 8-12 Finals, but this is very minimal worry. This is when I planned to start having time and really contributing to the game.
June 15 - I start an internship. That's it, I have nothing else I have to do. Well, except mediocre things like defend myself in a lawsuit, etc. But for the most part, I am free with oodles of additional hours on my plate.
So to start with the BIG event, the banquet. I am the president of this club, putting on a banquet that cost us $6k last year. The club has no trouble paying for the event... but the location won't let us pay with the club's funds directly. So that's $6000 I have to pay OUT OF POCKET for this club event. I had maybe $1k in my account, and had to pay for my sublease in the summer... How am I supposed to do this? I ran around for two whole days in a panic that the event would be shut down due to not being able to pay out of my own pocket. Eventually, this got resolved by my department stepping in, along with contracts office at Cal Poly saying we refuse to have me pay out of pocket, and the location of banquet refused to speak to us in any fashion until the day of the banquet. That was very very stressful.
This banquet had 9 large companies represented at it, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, and more. It was a Computer Science Awards Banquet, so it was a huge event. 120 people in attendance between companies, students, important people who provide thousands of dollars in scholarships, faculty, department chair, and Dean of the college.
This is an event that I am the head of, in charge of everything. Me and my vice president were giving a speech throughout the event, and I prepared the entire speech myself. Our group has 11 officers, I had to pick up the slack on at least 3 o 4 on the last week that the event was occuring on because they DID NOTHING. (or close to)
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Vacation time. As mentioned, I haven't seen my girlfriend since December, so I am not cutting my time with her short to play this game. In fact, if I can help it, I'm not cutting my time short to finish the boatload of work that's piled up from me planning for the banquet and not doing any of it. So this is a weekend of me not doing anything but enjoying my girlfriend.
-----
Classwork.
So I have a huge project for a programming class. I have to program a board with something new, something i have to teach myself how to do, and purchase the materials for. The materials come with no documentation, so it's hack and guess and hope for the best.
I had six labs I needed were a huge difficulty. It's all about computer security. Each lab was completely independent of each other, so I had to learn completely new things for every lab I put together, and I knew nothing at the start of the quarter. I don't think I even want to get started on the labs themselves -_-. I went through many more labs that just didn't work and I had to abandoned, but I needed six completed labs to hand in, no matter how many I attempted.
Anyways, with me going on vacation, and the quarter ending like right away, I had to get these done ahead of time, so I really didn't have time to be on the boards.
During this period of time, Gabriela showed me the thread saying where Mirela got replaced, and there was a patch of threads I never got to, and somehow this turned into a bunch of suspicion on me.
It was horribly disappointing to find that I had been exiled the day I returned from my last big event. My finals I was not worried about, and my internship is easy to deal with. As soon as I clock out, I'm done with work. Unlike school where I'm still working until the wee hours of the morning...