Does anything smart actually happen at higher education institutions?

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So I'm sitting here in one of our computer labs.. and all semester long the A/C has been out, just in this one room, rest of the building is fine. Not a big deal, right? Well, when you put over 100 computers in a room running 24/7, things get warm. I'm sitting here sweating in shorts and a t-shirt. On top of that they don't take care of their computers here what so ever. Looking at the fan intake on the PC it is jam packed with dust, lint and so forth. The power supply on the back is red hot. They aren't running slow or anything but its a joke, clean the crap out. Now on to the mice. Since we live in the 21st century we use the most up to date roller ball mice Dell has been so kind to provide us. So everytime I come into this particular lab I have to open the mouse up and clean the crap off the rollers so it actually moves with my hand. What amazes me though is there are 3 lab student workers in here on facebook. Amazing. They ***** at me when I have a drink in here so everytime I have to clean a mouse out I'm going to ***** at them for being lazy. Is it really so hard to go around once a month and take some canned air a blow the PC out so it doesn't spontaneously combust? And pop the mice open and clean them up a bit?

Man I'm in a bad mood. All I've done today is homework and I'm about to go postal.

Probably the worst part that you all might care about is theres a 50" Pioneer plamsa mounted on the wall that I've seen turned on ONCE in my career here. It's gotta be crying in this heat, not to mention the computers.

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