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So, first day of classes today. It's class-ful as my day gets. OS is taught by McQuain, who, according to some people, is unfit to teach it. We shall see. The Stats guy is apparently uninterested in really working us hard. And Sociology is too big for real homework -- more of a study-for-tests kind of thing. So, for now, class workload seems OK.

RCC workload, OTOH, is quite heavy. Had 6 calls today, 2/3 of them not an easy fix. And I have two tomorrow, along with all of my other calls and work. Main Egg just seems to emit anti-cluons for some reason. I had one person call me over to show them how to swap drives in their laptop. *sigh*

I think the stress is getting to me. I haven't seen anyone familiar (save robertliguori) since vt_komainu's party last Saturday. Between this, Get Connected, and RCC, I'm starting to feel the strain. I hope this changes soon.

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I took OS from McQuain and did very well (B or B+ I think). If you get along well with his teaching methods, you'll do fine. If not, good luck...

What he said. McQuain is very heavily into "sink or swim" computer science teaching. What he doesn't tell you is that if you ask him a question, he'll answer without hating you, even if it looks like he despises your guts.

Ahh, you'll see lots of familiar faces at the SOAP meeting. And after a while, computer problems settle out. Hell, halfway through first semester none of the folks in my company needed ANYTHING from me, in terms of computer help. Of course, you're dealing with more than just 24 people, but, still...