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> Stop shutting down Douglas College computers after printing

 

Jessica Berget library are the people who shut down down and start back up again, when down but goes back to the log-in screen
Opinions Editor the computers instead of just logging you have only minutes before your class in less than a minute. When you shut
out after printing. It takes forever for starts and you still need to print out it down completely the next person to
nyone who doesn't have a printer at the computer to start back up again and your work while watching the computer use it has to turn the computer back on
Awe knows the hardship of printing holds the line back even more than usual. slowly creep back to life, that couple of and wait for it to slowly start back up
your work out at the Douglas College There are very few worse thingsthan minutes can feel like hours. It also doesn’t again, which is like the seventh circle
library. The lines are long and tedious, speed-walking up that giant hill so you help your stress when you become late of hell when you're sweaty and panting
it takes some people forever to print out can print out your work right before your _for class because you had to wait for and had to be in class five minutes ago.
a single page, and then there are those class starts only to be in line behind the the computer to turn back on again. Most people don’t care what they do
who seem to be printing out an entire person who decides the completely shut Logging out is the best thing you with the computer after they are done
novel but refuse to log off the computer down the computer after they’re done can do after printing in the library. It with it but out of courtesy for the people
while their work is printing. While all of printing. This is the unfortunate reality saves time, efficiency and a whole lot behind you, just log out. The log out
this is no doublt frustrating, my biggest for many students of Douglas College. of headaches. Usually when someone button is literally right next to the shut
personal vexation about printing at the Although it takes only a few minutes logs-out of a computer it does a little down button so please do not get them
for the computers to completely shut restart that looks like its about to shut mixed up for the sake of everyone's sanity.

I'm nota bitch ,

, ¢¢ Some of my biggest pet peeves are
because I don t want people who talk during lectures.
to talk to you in class

> Socially anxious girl just wants to learn

 

anyone who considers themselves anti-
social, talking to people in class is an
absolute nightmare. When I’m forced
to interact with classmates as part of a

Jessica Berget
Opinions Editor

 

L: me get one thing straight, I am group activity, there’s nothing I want
a fun and cool person to talk to— to do more than crawl into the fetal
when I’m not in class. My class time is position and disappear. It’s not that I

precious to me, (I paid $500 to be here) —_ don’t want to talk to anyone in class
so when I am sitting at my desk the ever, I just hate the forced interaction

only thing I want to do is look at my and the invitation to socialize with me
phone, listen to the lecture, and learn. — when I just want to sit in the corner
Some of my biggest pet peeves are and take notes. When you have social
people who talk during lectures. It’s anxiety, any interaction with people
rude to the people who have a hard can take a lot of mental energy out of
time focusing and just want to hear you, energy needed to focus in class.
what the professor is saying. Did you Of course, there are students
really pay this much for a class just to who want to meet and socialize
talk the entire time? My disdain for with their classmates—which is
people who do this led me to avoid perfectly fine—but when it gets to
socializing with fellow classmates the point of excessive talking in class

altogether. I have had more than one or making jokes when the professor
occasion where I’m trying to take notes js talking, that’s when I have to

and the person next to me—that I've roll my eyes so far back I can see
talked to a couple times—just wants to my brain. Don’t be that person.
make jokes about the professor or have I know I sound like “blah blah
full-on conversations during alecture. [mm not here to make friends” but
Just because I’ve talked to you before that is not the case (well, maybe to a
or after class a couple of times is not certain extent). College is the most
an invitation to talk to me during class —_ chaotic and stressful time for any
and certainly does not allow you to young adult so of course I want to
distract me and interrupt my learning. make friends. Just not the type of

But maybe I’m just bitter. friends who talk during class lectures.

For those with social anxiety or