…No Free Time…Fast Food…Extra Pounds

It seems like the Fall semester of 2006 at MU is consuming my life.  With work and school there never seems to be any time to do anything.  I like staying on the edge a bit, but here lately things have been really crazy. 

Last semester and over the summer I had pretty much the same workload at work, full time in IT seems to be a minimum of 60 hours, and I could still juggle classes and maintain a 3.81 GPA.  This semester on the other hand MU has really picked up the pace.  My classes assign so much homework there is hardly time for much of a life when I get home. 

My First MU Parking Ticket

Today I received my very first parking ticket at Marshall University. Since ‘97 I had been able to dodge the evil meter maids. I parked in the meter lot across from Corbly Hall, for my 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM class, and to my surprise I see the dreaded parking attendant making her rounds. I was searching franticly for a quarter but had none. There was no escape this time, I was busted. The official time on my parking ticket for MU was 18:38, so this evil lady littered the entire lot with orange slips. I have parked in the meter lot for about a year after 4PM and never received a ticket.

Road Construction on I64…again…always.

The 2006 Fall semester of Marshall University (MU) is about to start up again on August 21st. Coincidentally road construction begins on I-64 again in Barboursville, WV. What is even better is the placement of the merge lanes. The brains behind the operation last spring, concerning the bridges in Barboursville, the main two lanes merged into one, at the entrance of an onramp. Just remember the STOPPED traffic.

College tuition & cost of books

I started college right after I graduated from high school in 1997, I made it up to 2000, one year short of graduating. I opted for the full-time job route, it was in my field and the pay was pretty good. So there I was, I had attained senior status, but I still needed to complete my senior year of classes. In 2000 my tuition costs at Marshall University were around $1500, and books were usually around $300.