Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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September 2005

Lab Assistant, or How I became a Hall Monitor

I sit in the hall writing this (thankfully several offices on the floor are being remodeled and there is a comfortable chair out here). I have been relegated to lab assistant for our mobile laptop lab.

As this is the first semester for us to be running this mobile lab and there were still kinks to work out, it would be run almost entirely by staff and not student lab assistants. And seeing as how I had the best technical skills to handle difficulties, it made sense for me to be the babysitter for the laptops.

It is halfway through the class, and I have been relegated to hall monitor it seems. "Where is room 4208?", "How do I get to the second floor?", "Where is the registrar's office?"

I hear the class starting to wrap up. Time to trade student ids for laptops, packup the rest of the cart, and manhandle the damned cart back to the storeroom.

The answers to the above questions by the way are; there is no 4208, through the double set of doors behind me and down the stairs to the right, and Peterson Building.