Lethbridge College – Ongoing Letter

Mom, Floyd, and I saw the new Technologies and Trades building at Lethbridge College last week. Mom got a bit tired near the end – it just creeps up on her suddenly. But we saw enough of it.

This will be my first year in this new building. All those who did the course in the normal two years will not have the chance to be in this new building. Luckily, doing it in 3 years, I’ll spend my final year in there.

I brought a list of my classroom numbers, published a month ago. I’m thinking they have since changed the numbers of rooms from a month ago. Why do I say that? One of my classes, Fluid Dynamics I think, was in room TT1933. What’s the problem with that? TT1933 is now a men’s restroom. I saw my newly numbered classrooms today – TT1939, TT1940, TT1941, TT1942, and TT1981. I guess I’m not having classroom in any restrooms.

I took my school laptop in to be re-imaged – a second time. I was expecting Steve to give me the gears about this, and he didn’t let me down. I explained that I’d put the wrong drive to be imaged last week, so it must be done again, and that I wiped the first drive. He noted that he would prefer that he change the drive to make sure it was wiped. “What’s to stop you from using that drive after school is done next year? You could be using all that free software.”

Frankly, it never dawned on me that I could do that. I believed that none of it would work because it would all expire. I would not be able to update the license for most software, and I wouldn’t be able to use the rest because I wouldn’t be connected to the school’s servers.

“I tried to find way not to bother you about this because I know you’re busy. But I couldn’t.” I asked a classmate, “T“, if I could image mine from his – a kind of carbon copy from his to mine – but he hasn’t gotten his done yet; T is out of the country until the very day of school.