03 July 02
The department of computer engineering at my school has to be one of the best-organized systems of educating students and determining which of them have succeeded enough to get a college degree.
They even teach their students good time-management skills. They do so by recommending that the incoming students already have good time-management skills. They don’t believe in “teaching by example”, as that has yet to be proven as profitable as “half-assing your effort”. I wish more institutions learned from their marvelous habits of reasoning.
The department also believes in equal opportunity. For instance, it isn’t so shallow, degrading, or segregatory to treat the “Punctualites” or “Englishers” any different than the majority. To achieve this delicate balance, due dates and meeting dates are set for important assignments, tests, and applications, but the content or actual location of those events are never decided until not more than 48 hours in advance. In addition, prompts for critical thought and response are never constructed with the imagination-limiting and society-harming grammar known as “English” (God only knows what crimes that language has been associated with) for that would lead to bow ties and golf shorts. Instead, the government-approved “Engrish” is the standard. Some members of the IT-sect may know this language as its alternate title, “You do not have language pack XXXX installed. Please continue to Windows update to forever bog your system down with screwy characters that you’ll never understand.” I tend to think “Engrish” is much easier to pronounce.
Long story short, The Department shall be remembered forever in the annals of history, IMHO, AFAIK, God Save the Queen, In Exelcis Deo, Only In America.