Printer Saga

Jessica

Monday August 29th at 8:00a.m. I stepped onto Temple's Campus and began my first week as an official college student.

I turned the corner, and I was overwhelmed to see the sidewalk infested with so many students. I attended a summer program at Temple for six weeks before the semester actually started and I was fooled into thinking that the few students that I saw during the summer actually represented Temple's student body.

I was spoiled coming from a small middle school and small high school I was use to utilizing the school resources without having to wait in long lines or share. So after I pushed my way through the crowd to get to my classes (I already knew where they were located because I spent six weeks getting familiar with the campus) the day seemed to be a calm one, until I had to go to the computer lab to print out my syllabus for my next class later that day. The computer lab that I used all summer was packed! The line for the computers were out the door. I went to another computer lab it was standing room only.I could not believe it, HOW IN THE WORLD WAS I GOING TO GET MY SYLLABUS PRINTED OUT!

Ii did not want to be unprepared, especially not on my first day of class. So I asked the librarian if there was anywhere else on campus that I could print. She sent me to the TECH Center, and when I got there I found free computers. I was like." Thank God"! So after pushing print on the computer I went to the printer and I swiped my ID card, but there was no money on it. I almost died! 

So I put money in the machine and I was panicking because I was running late for class and nothing came out of the printer.  So I ran to get help and the technician had to call someone from downstairs. They did not want me to pay a second fee so the guy looked on the computer system to try to push my print job through for free and he could not find it. So I had to go back to the original computer that I had logged off of and someone else was on it. So the technician and I had to kindly ask her to switch computers and she did (she was very nice) and I reprinted the document. OK.  things seemed to look up until we went to printer 1, and the paper still did not come out. So the technician said go to printer 2 and it did not come out. Then he said go to Printer 3 and it was there. 

After that i thanked everyone for their help and I flew out of the Tech Center to Ritter Hall to get to my Education class and I was on time