A friend told me recently that Penn State has expanded its efforts to upgrade their wireless infrastructure. Currently, students and faculty have to suffer through the arduous process of using a Cisco VPN Client to connect securely to Wi-Fi around the campus. This new system, dubbed Wireless 2.0, merely requires your Penn State User ID […]
I was hanging out with some friends last semester and one of them showed me a chain of Angel emails (Penn State's course management system). Thanks to my buddy (who forwarded this hilarious specimen to me) I am able to post it on this blog. It is both sad and hilarious, very much like this situation.
Disclaimer: All names and identifying information has been removed from the following, everything thing else is verbatim to the original text.
A student gets on Angel for an Astro class and sends a mass email to everyone. He thinks he is clever enough to delete the professor's email out of the list, but it turns out that professors can see any mass email messages. Here is the message from the student:
Hey, just throwing this out there for everyone. I bought every homework and test from a kid down here at the end of last year. So to try to get some of my money back because it was pretty expensive, I'm going to see if anyone in here wants to buy them from me. It's every homework and every test from last semester. All the homeworks have the answers I believe, and the tests have about 90% of the right answers. He had the tests and homeworks from the semester before him and said everything was like 98% the exact same. So if anyone is interested let me know. Sorry to bother those who aren't.
Most of you are saying to yourselves, "wow, I can't believe he sent this to the whole class." I'm not sure if any students responded, but the professor (who can read all the mass emails) certainly did...to the entire class:
Dear Hilarious But Mostly Sad Student,
I am disappointed and dismayed that you would send a message like this to the class. It is a violation of the honor code to do this, and so I plan to raise this matter with my department head and the university academic integrity committee. Moreover, Please come to see me immediately after class on Wednesday morning at my office.
-The Professor
Uh oh. Someone's in trouble. Let's face it here, the kid had it coming. The most hilarious part of this whole situation is what another individual in the class wrote in yet another mass email after reading what the perpetrator and the professor wrote. Here comes the proverbial icing on the cake, the cherry on top, the spoonful of sugar. Here it is:
OMG DUDE U GOT OOOOOWWWWWWWWNNNNNENEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously how dumb can you be?!
I maintain that college is the most hilarious thing I've ever experienced. The amount of side-splitting situations that occur here is insane. I probably laughed for five minutes straight after hearing about this story. I even cried a little as a result from laughing so hard.
The thing about technology is that it is really easy to get caught doing things you shouldn't be doing.
The Campus Explorer is a feature of Onward State dedicated to exploring Penn State’s astrologically massive campus. The series will showcase a building or area on campus that doesn’t receive much attention as landmark buildings like the Beaver Stadium or Old Main. Since it’s groundbreaking ceremony on January 18, 2007, the construction of the 60 […]
As a connoisseur of useless facts and information, I was pleased to find an OPP website entirely devoted to stats about the University Park campus. I thought I might pass on some of the more interesting statistics for those of you that enjoy extraneous information. You can find the original page here and I credit the OPP for all of this information.
Real Estate
• Penn State UP resides on 15,984 acres of beautiful Pennsylvania land.
• 758 buildings
• 49 rental buildings
• 15.5 million square feet total
• Worth about 1.921 billion dollars
Building Details
• 79 acres of roof
• 10,010 exterior doors
• 2,262 classrooms and laboratories
• 7,123 offices
• 300 elevators
Transportation
• 14,000 parking spaces
• 31 miles of paved roads and streets
• 23 miles of paved walkways
• 1,810 streetlights
Flora
• 11,000 trees
• 25,000 flowers planted annually
Utilities
• 50 miles of water pipes
• 2.7 million gallons of water are produced/consumed daily
• 17 miles of steam pipes
• 218 fire hydrants
• 2,091 fire extinguishers
You want one more interesting fact? Here it is (with proof):
The Sergeant-At-Arms of the U.S. Senate has the power to arrest the President if he violates the rules of the Senate.
What are you doing? One million-plus Twitter users certainly want to know. I discovered the increasingly popular social network after I noticed a few coworkers at my summer internship using the service. Initially, I used the service to keep in touch with them after I came back to school. Then things got a lot more interesting. I began to discover people from all across the Penn State community. Fellow students, professors, alumni and even Penn State services all have Twitter accounts.
The best way to describe Twitter is that it is like Facebook status updates- but better. Messages are limited to 140 characters at a time, which gives just enough space for short and easily digestible information. You can use the service from your cellphone, through a web browser and through any number of mobile devices. To further explain the simple social network, I'll test your SAT skills with a nice analogy: Followers are to Twitter what Friends are to Facebook. Followers are people that have elected to see your updates in real time. The "Following" category of your account lists the Twitter users that you follow, and therefore receive their updates. Below you will find a list containing some of my favorite Twitter users around Penn State, as well as some other members of the Twitterverse.
At job fairs around the country, recruiters promise a summer internship program promising bountiful opportunities and plenty of hands on experience. As some of us know, those promises can sometimes be shattered by menial “intern” work and little opportunity to explore. Ever want to cut through recruiter’s tactful spiel and find out first hand what previous interns think about the company that they worked for?