Wednesday, January 23, 2013

On campus printers student POV


It is the last minute and you have to get your paper printed and get to class in twenty minutes.   Luckily your class is in the MARB so you can use the printers in the lobby of the Clyde Building.  There is no line for the printer and you have 18 minutes until class.  Your pace slackens and you stroll up to the printing station.  Smiling, you slide your card through the reader.  Stupid card reader, better slide your card again.  Frozen? Was the system overloaded because you swiped your card twice?  Maybe if you fiddle around with the components it will fix itself.  No luck? No matter, just walk over to the SWKT there is a printer there too.  Classes are already getting out? That’s ok you can speed things up a bit and still be on time to class.  Alright no one is using this printer either, perfect.  Call Maintenance? You do not have time for that you have to be sitting in your seat in five minutes! Can you think of another printer that is close by?  There is always the library and you have not spotted another printer that you can think of.  But the line there is always massive.  Well you best not spend time thinking about it; you can do that while you wait in line.  You will probably be a few minutes late but if you tell your teacher the printers were not working for you, they will probably understand because the printers on campus have always been subpar.  Come on girl don’t you know how the printer works? Just print your paper so that others can get to class.  Inconsiderate people everywhere!  Oh the printer is out of paper? That is what happens when you have to print 5 billion fliers for your club that no one cares about.  Ok go ahead and fill every paper tray because no one else wants to print their stuff.  Gosh, you are going to be really late to class.  Alright you have your paper printed but what are you going to do about a stapler? Hurry up class ends in 25 minutes!  Come on library you don’t have a single stapler! Fine I am sure your professor will be nice enough to take your paper without a staple and not dock you too many points.  Gee whiz, alright 17 minutes left of class just act cool like you were trying to be late.  “I know the essays were due at the beginning of class but I had troubles with the campus printers.  50%?!? But I was only a few minutes late! I don’t care about the real world I busted my butt to get here on time!”  You got a solid 45% on your paper because it was well written and 40 minutes late. You wrote the entire essay and left yourself enough time to print it and get to class on time but you did not plan for the poor quality of the campus printers.  As a result, your well written essay received a failing grade.  Congratulations, you now understand what using a BYU campus printer is like.

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