Too Tech?

Mood: Bored
Song: Wasting My Life - The Hippos
Units of Caffeine: 8.75
Days Until Graduation: 58

At the risk of sounding like I don't like change or anything, whatever happened to the days of customer service where you could go somewhere and talk to someone about a problem you're having? Right now I'm close enough to graduation where I want to make sure that I have killed enough trees for my University. The amount of paperwork the University requires when entering or exiting the institution is nothing short of astounding. And, of course, if you've missed one minor detail, you've fucked yourself royally! So, as displayed on my countdown, there are only fifty-eight days until graduation and I wasn't sure what the University needed of me in order to make sure that every "i" was dotted and every "t" crossed. As luck would have it, I received an e-mail from the registrar a few days ago advertising a Graduate Fair scheduled for today and tomorrow, where I could go and "take care of all the pesky details needed to graduate." So, I go to the graduate fair, loaded with questions and concerns and left about an hour later without a single question answered nor a concern addressed. Here is what happened: At every booth I went to, I was given the same response; "Go to our web site." At one point, late in the hour, one representative at a certain booth asked, "Have you visited our web site?" to which I responded, "No. That's why I'm here."

Again, I'm all for technology and all the information that the web has to offer, but why should I have to go to a web site... nay, why should I have to go to web sites when I'm at a supposed information fair? It's like going to a bank teller who simply points out the ATM across the street. So, instead of walking away from this fair full of answers and forms needed by various offices in order to graduate; I walked away with a bunch of little slips of paper, all containing long phrases beginning with "http://"

On a positive note, I ordered my cap, gown and masters hood, making the graduation date just a little more real.