A lot has gone on since the new school year started. I'm down in Nerland Hall for the year, and honestly its going pretty well. My roommate Matt is pretty cool, Marx and Sam are my neighbors, Ty is right down the hall, and the dorm is really close to both food and parking. How much better could it get? Well... Maybe if the lower floors didn't smell like body odor every once in a while that would be cool, but at least my floor smells decent. I also really like the setup of my room. As long as I don't have a lot of physical writing, I have a great setup for both gaming and working on homework.
My classes are starting to go into full swing as well, but they're a little sub-par for the most part. I just switched into the Network and Systems Administration degree from Computer Science, so I'm taking the basics for that degree, but that's the problem. They're basics. So basic it hurts. Right now I'm in Server Operating Systems and Introduction to Network Administration, but I feel like I'm just drifting along through them. I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, of the other students have never worked in a server or IT environment at all. I'm in one every day. I hear everyone "Oooooooh" and "Aaahhhhh" at things like the OSI layers and basic networking while I sit there and recite it to myself from memory. Its gotten to the point where I'm 2 weeks ahead in BOTH of those classes just for the fact that I have nothing to do in those classes other than show up and do homework because the lecture is just a rambling history lesson. A history I experienced firsthand. Which is whatever, and it might become interesting later on, so I continue to show up and be productive while I'm there.
Socially, everything is great. I don't have a lot of free time during the day with me working 32 hours a week and taking 12 credits, but when I do my friends are great. I've had a lot of fun just sitting around and doing nothing but watch Adventure Time and hanging out in Marx's room (since I'm pretty sure its the new party room).
But even with that being said, I have a lot of fun at work. For the 5 weeks or so I've been out and about away from the Helpdesk working on computers at one of our customer locations. Plus, I really enjoy working. My coworkers are great, my hours are great, the work is great. I really have nothing I could complain about. The only thing I could possibly even try to complain about is the fact that I dress up all professional and whatnot everyday so I can't dress like a bum, but I think that's just part of the deal. Plus, its not even a real complaint. Why should I care if I force myself to dress nice? I even got a personalized nametag and jacket! How cool is that?
The best part of the last month though was my trip yesterday to the Eva Creek Wind Project that GVEA has been putting together for the last while. About 100 miles south of Fairbanks or so they've put up 12 wind turbines and I was lucky enough to get on the tour to go see them! Justina came along with me and it was one of the coolest things I've seen in quite a long time.
