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ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

Recently I had to get a very boring job, well internship really, but it pays so i'm happy with it overall. I'm a lab monitor at my college, borning, and nothing to do.

So I have been debating on getting a handheld system, one of those fancy smancy Playstaion Portable or Nintendo DS systems to pass some of the time while in the lab.

I've looked up quite abit of information on both things, and basicly what I am asking is has anyone gotten one of these, and if so what's your opinion on it. Even though I have informaiton on both systesm it's what te people think of them that matters to me, so any help would be appreciated.

Eddy · Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 714

Well, having been a computer lab monitor in college, I can understand what it's like. Personally, try it I say, or possibly a cheap PDA that you can load with simple games.

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

Well i've been toying with the computer's system to get my PS2 emulator working, if I can I could bring my PS2 games from home, but it is a hassle to get through all the security to install it, why I am going with the something handheld that has a decent entertainment value.

CooJoe · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

Books are handheld and entertaining.

Eddy · Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 714

I don't know how techy you are but you could set up an SSH tunnel to your home machine and simply play via the net. Warning: this can be traced, and I personally have never done this, although a coworker of mine did once. Cool idea.

Brf · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

I have played games over a VPN tunnel... much fun.

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

I bring lots of books coojoe, and I love them, but if I get to into a book I often forget what I am doing, games don't do that to me, easier to monitor the room.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7361 Location: Texas

Or you could finish your homework, visit CD to poooost, check your email/phone messages, read a book, help a student, clean your nails, sharpen an axe, or calculate the number of microns in a mile.

Getting a new time addiction while in college is never a smart move.

Btw, you can get some basic games for your cell phone that aren't too engrossing or addictive.

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

It isn't an addiction, just something to pass the time.

I have no homework for summer, I visit CD every day while there to check up on stuff, and check my e-mail, so far no students need help, clean my nails :oops: ... and my axe I think would look odd comming into school with, and I have no use for the microns in a mile.

Like I said before, right now I have no college, summer time, this is simply an internship over the summer. I also have several cell phone games, but 2 hours of those game make me go numb.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7361 Location: Texas

So chat with the cute girls. :wink:

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

Ha I wish, been here two weeks, on average 3-5 people a week, one of those people every day. Most of the others that show stay for less than half an hour, and technically, no talking is allowed... i'm in a very loose loose situation.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7361 Location: Texas

ExarKun wrote: i'm in a very loose loose situation.

Could that be lose-lose situation there, college boy? :P

TriBeCa · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 748 Location: NY, NY

That would depend on the personal qualities of the aforementioned cute girls.

Brf · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject:

Ha. I met plenty of cute girls while I was in college -- 20-some years ago -- but they were only interested in my brain :P

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

English is not what I excel in, I knew it felt wrong when I spelt it but I will live. If you have not learned I do not attempt as much as I should to fix my mistakes, you have not been paying enough attention (highly doubt that is the case for you Mr. JJ).

I try my best though without going to MS word, don't wanna start having s_stabeler quality writing :P

As for girls, so far only two girls I have seen I thought were cute and they have only been in once so far for the 2 weeks I have had the job.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7361 Location: Texas

ExarKun wrote: when I spelt it

Of all the words to goof, eh? :wink:

It's like shooting fish in a barrel. :P

Maus · Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 397

At least now we know why foreign countries are no longer shipping their college students to U.S. universities :lol:

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2292

of all the words to goof. ( it's spelled). and my spelling is better than that, I can tell that I am going to become the butt of a number of jokes here.

ExarKun · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 2322 Location: USA

I am by all means not a good example of a College student in America, least when it comes to english, I got a B+ only cause I spent weeks on the the reports and papers.

English has never been good to me, which is odd cause I love to read, but the mechanics of the English language never became as concrete to me as computers and math.

Eddy · Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 714

The best way to learn English is by reading it. Get yourself an unabridged dictionary and some books. Not Danielle Steele or Harlequin romance novels, but some good gutsy stuff written by people in the age of literacy and before the internet. Lord of the Rings is a good start, along with H.G. Wells works, or the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. You know. Books that even today are readable. Use the dictionary as frequently as you must.