Turn the lights out when you go.
I was kind of ticked that nobody bothered to let me know about CTRL-D. For about five minutes. That's when I realized something: I've stopped caring.
I joined the U(W) CSC in 1996, and in the last nine years I've watched it go from an organization full of programmers, sysadmins, and hardware geeks that regularly sent winning teams to international programming competitions and attracted people like Bjarne Stroustrop and Bill Gates, to a gang of filthy dropouts sleeping on the floor of the office. And every point in between.
The biggest threat to the club's continued existence has never been the Feds, or MathSoc, or IST, or the Dean. It is and always has been the club's own members. There are certain behaviours that are not acceptable in a collegiate organization. There are certain personality types that are toxic to a group. There are certain attitudes that spell organizational suicide.
None of this is news. Everyone knows it. Occasionally someone tries to do something about it, but trading one group of problem people for another isn't the answer either. What is? Beats me. I'm just here for the degree.
On the upside, MathNEWS actually printed my article, although for some reason they decided to change "bitchy" in the original to "whiny" in the copy. Go fig.
I joined the U(W) CSC in 1996, and in the last nine years I've watched it go from an organization full of programmers, sysadmins, and hardware geeks that regularly sent winning teams to international programming competitions and attracted people like Bjarne Stroustrop and Bill Gates, to a gang of filthy dropouts sleeping on the floor of the office. And every point in between.
The biggest threat to the club's continued existence has never been the Feds, or MathSoc, or IST, or the Dean. It is and always has been the club's own members. There are certain behaviours that are not acceptable in a collegiate organization. There are certain personality types that are toxic to a group. There are certain attitudes that spell organizational suicide.
None of this is news. Everyone knows it. Occasionally someone tries to do something about it, but trading one group of problem people for another isn't the answer either. What is? Beats me. I'm just here for the degree.
On the upside, MathNEWS actually printed my article, although for some reason they decided to change "bitchy" in the original to "whiny" in the copy. Go fig.