Yesterday, my classes went to the computer lab to take a benchmark Biology exam. It was brutally frustrating for me. Anything that can possibly go wrong in a computer lab (and there are lots of possibilities) probably went wrong yesterday. After school, we had a Science department meeting. I had lots of complaints for our department chair. First of all, the test was too short so half of my class finished it in twenty minutes. Second, approximately a third of the computers were not functioning at all, or if they were functioning then the mouse was broken so it didn’t matter. At this point in my tirade, I whined, “There was a stack of mice without balls sitting next to the printer.” The whole department burst out laughing. One teacher quipped, “The students are pretty good at castrating them!”
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LOL – Please know that I am laughing with you and SO understand how it feels to have horrible equipment to use.
About the mice. . . perhaps your school should buy some of the pre-castrated variety. You know the optical mice that are so much more durable and you do not typically need a mouse pad either. I know that is something my school went with since they last longer and dirt does not get inside them to make the balls useless (please hold the snickering).
Good luck!
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