What MY School HAS!!

[PlayStation 2]

37 minutes ago, aberg12 said:

Bus, Pell is great but won’t buy a car. 

 

Sorry, I don't speak broke.

 

/s

[Glinch]

This all seems very nice, and i believe that school is more than just learning, but i have a hard time justifying this if the money could've gone to more staff, or better teaching facilities. if it's privately funded then awesome!

[HammerStrike]

2 hours ago, Arika S said:

Teachers have been fighting to get wage increases since time immemorial, and your school goes and blows 100's of thousands of dollars on something like this? School is a place to learn, not to play...

It’s being paid for by the students.  I would seriously love to see students pay for teachers wage increases, but the professors here are top tier and probably get paid enough anyhow.  Love those guys. The TA’s though need help.  I just don’t see students paying that way for something like that. Most likely it would be paid through tuition increases which have been fought over for years now by the students. 

[HammerStrike]

1 hour ago, handymanshandle said:

Sorry, I don't speak broke.

 

/s

Oh, sh//////t. Say that.  Lol. 

[HammerStrike]

9 minutes ago, aberg12 said:

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I would much rather have a couple more students be able to attend than pay for something like that also.  I highly doubt that the government has anything to do with this.  Do you know where this school is? This area questions more stuff like this than most others. I am sure 200 students already filed your reports. Just chill and enjoy broseph 

Was not meant to be so harsh sounding there.   I was trying to respond to a couple different posts.  This is my first time on this board and really on any board.  So yea. My bad. I think I agree with you. 

[HammerStrike]

1 hour ago, Glinch said:

Is the computer lounge publicly funded if it requires payment for using them?
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/university-washington-building-esports-arena-lounge-tap-huge-gaming-movement/
" Rates for UW students will be $3.50 an hour or $30 for 10hours; UW faculty and staff will be $4.50 an hour or $40 for 10 hours; and the general public can gain access at $6 an hour. "

 

Sounds more like a plan to finance it by the user fees.

 

This is okay to me. Government institutions can be flexible with funding too, mixing it.

I am terrible at this.  I do not really ever visit community boards and this is my first time here and for a while in general.  I tried to say something about being harsh but replied to the wrong person.  Idk if this is a mess but, yea I was trying to respond to someone else and include your post.  Wow that’s a lot of explaining. 

[Volts2545]

This may just be the coolest school I have ever seen. I wish my school had this. The computer lab in the high school is an empty room with desks. We all use laptops.

[HammerStrike]

11 minutes ago, Volts2545 said:

This may just be the coolest school I have ever seen. I wish my school had this. The computer lab in the high school is an empty room with desks. We all use laptops.

That’s terrible.  This is a large university though.  We have a smaller end supercomputer also.  You should apply!!!!! It’s a great school! 

[WkdPaul]

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[AngryBeaver]

That being a state school means it is in part funded by everyone living in that state. Now on your pell grant covering your tuition... I just don't see that happening on anything higher than maybe a 2 year college... the pell grant does help, but it is far from covering the majority of tuition for a 4+ year school.

 

Now I am not saying there is anything wrong with that, that is what FSA is for, but with the way the IRS is taking over the Federal loan program in 2020... I have a bad feeling for getting that funding moving forward. I mean I just got done fighting the IRS over them changing my filing status in 2014 (because they thought I didn't qualify for head of household) which then said I owed 2400 in back taxed... then tacked on interest and fee's pushing the total over 10k. No clue why they decided to do all of this around the time I filed my 2018 taxes... thankfully I found a decent tax lawyer.

 

Anyways my point is the IRS likes to do things like the above because most of the time they get away with it... because well they are the federal government. It makes me concerned for the future of education loans when they will try to apply the same system they have in place for taxes.

[Alece]

My school has 2 rooms with iMacs, the rest of the labs have windows 7 with pentiums  

we recently got 6 trash macbooks (the small ones). The rest are chromebooks and win10 laptops.

[Redrooster]

5 hours ago, HammerStrike said:

Check out the new edition to your neighbor to the south in Seattle UW 

I don't see a single camera in that room. If that were my school, half of those pc's would have been gutted in a week.

[IntMD]

13 hours ago, NineEyeRon said:

Well my school had one acorn and a bbc micro

BBC Micros for the win... Although I think my primary school had 3 or 4 of them when I was there... and a single Mac Colour Classic in every classroom.  Then when I went to high school, 90% of the computers were Mac Classics (non-colour), with a smaller room that had some P1/P2 (if i remember correctly) machines that nobody except those doing GSCE or A-Levels were allowed to use. The Macs got binned off about halfway through my time there for PIIIs that were around 450mhz. Quality stuff (to be honest, the PIIIs were just about top of the range when they did buy them).

[LukeSavenije]

13 hours ago, MrIceCremeLollipop said:

Only? Try E8400s in the majority of systems.

try having that as 3 daily systems

[Pasi123]

Best computers at my school has an i5-6500, 16GB RAM and GTX 1050 Ti. There is also some i7 PC's but they only have an iGPU.

 

My school also has a Commodore PET in a storage room.

[Pasi123]

13 hours ago, r2724r16 said:

Pentium D, sadly. But I guess that's quite a bit better than Pentium 4.

Pentium D is just dual Pentium 4's on a single CPU.

[Curious Pineapple]

20 minutes ago, Pasi123 said:

Pentium D is just dual Pentium 4's on a single CPU.

And utter crap, they share the same FSB so under full load, there is a bottleneck and performance suffers.

[Monkey Butler]

HAHAHAHA my school didn't have computers until 2005 when it got Celeron 533A based machines. it could barely run XP never mind anything to do for work or educational purposes 

[AndrewMKlasen]

Our school has dells with i7-7600 and SSD'S

[Deedfool]

16 hours ago, HammerStrike said:

Check out the new edition to your neighbor to the south in Seattle UW 

O.O my school had...... yeh not that....and you have empty seats wow! surprised! 

[RoseLuck462]

My school had mac computers with Number Munchers.

[Mooshi]

I don't get the purpose of this thread. Property someone else has....and?

[Gale]

On 4/4/2019 at 4:53 PM, handymanshandle said:

Lemme guess: you drive an S600 4Matic to school.

HAHAHAHAHA, you silly idiot!

 

His chauffeur drives it!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

My college didn't have computers. No college did. I graduated in '71. My kids had Commodores in their grade and high schools.

[Guest]

On 4/5/2019 at 11:01 AM, Arika S said:

Teachers have been fighting to get wage increases since time immemorial, and your school goes and blows 100's of thousands of dollars on something like this? School is a place to learn, not to play...

Oh they’re young let them play while they can. They don’t get to decide the schools budget. Maybe they don’t do exchanges or sports, camping trips.