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10/02/2003 Entry: "Training Wreck - Day Two"

Man. This class is dull. My worst fears were realized when I learned that we are not doing anything actually ON the computers, we're just going to learn college-level theory, which would be fine if that's what I came for, but sadly, I came to learn how to program in VB.NET. I mean, we're learning Object-Oriented programming, which I understand WHY we have it, and what the theory is behind it, but I want to actually apply it to something useful! Half the class is typing on IMs, browsing the web, and since I am writing in my journal, you can see where this is going.

The guy to the right of me is searching the web. The guy behind me is sleeping. The guy to the left of me has been sending mail and writing IMs. The guy in front of me is reading ESPN News. One of the students here is a DEAD ringer for Tobey Maguire; I keep thinking he'll turn into Spiderman. Thank God for VNC, because I can log into my work computer and do work from there. In fact, I am typing this entry in a spellchecker on my work computer, which is currently several miles away. I finally got sick of everything, and tried to write my own program, using the VB Studio, and getting a lot further learning on my own. Ugh ... this is excruciating. Apparently the teacher wrote a book or something, because he keeps dropping this fact more than I do about my book, even on my own website (still avalable for $5). I cannot wait until lunch.

Last note, there's the student I first met when I had to work with Hong Kong node tests. That project was abandoned when we pulled out of China, but somehow he stayed employed working on other stuff. He knows very little English, but he's trying so hard, and he's so likeable, I can't help but feel like being his pal. I can never understand him, because his Mandarin accent is so thick, but his sheer effort is inspiring. I mean, not only is he learning technology, but he's learning it in a language he doesn't toally understand.

Hey, people are leaving! Is it lunch...? No... they just gave up. Dang.

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