Back At It

Wow! It sure has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. Last week I got back to school for my final semester as an education student!!!! Classes were going well and I was excited to be learning more about technology from my professor, who by the way, is really quite helpful when I am having computer difficulty. It happens more often then it should.

So, 3:30 Tuesday afternoon rolls around and I am sitting in the basement computer lab, waiting for class to start. I plunk my crap [my backpack] onto the floor and attempt to sign onto the school computer. Just my luck. As I could have predicted,  I am unable to sign in. Of course me of all people struggles on day one to sign in. If you remember any of my previous posts (see January 14, 2013) you will recall that anything technological causes me problems and computers hate me. Reflecting on last year, I noticed my computer struggles were almost exactly one year apart. Continuing on, I try logging in about five more times before getting up and trying a new computer, because there is no way this is my fault - obviously there is a glitch in the university's system. My professor jokes around saying he isn't surprised this is happening to me and tells me it's not an excuse for assignments not getting done. He's a comedian like that. At this point, people in my class are shouting out ideas they think will help, but because it's me nothing works.

My next step is to change my password because I had exceeded the maximum tries you can use before they think something is wrong/somebody is trying to break into your account. So I go ahead and change my password. What happens next, obviously it doesn't work. The computer tells me it is the wrong password, that I just changed. More laughter from my classmates (thanks for the encouragement guys!). Finally, class ends and I have to go to the helpdesk for them to reset my password, again, because it doesn't work even though I had just changed it. I am clearly not surprised by any of this, and was questioning my choice to take this class. I quickly realized that I clearly need this course because I still have much to learn about internet and technology for educators.