Stress
I love Provo. I love the navigational system. I love the architecture of BYU. I love the amenities of BYU. And I especially love the people (but more on that in another blog post). Still, even in Provo, there are days when I wish I hadn't gotten out of bed.
I woke up too late and got to class 40 minutes late. Then the moment I got out of class, it was time to schedule appointments with people: 2 Skype lessons, a recording session, and a film shoot. I started running around like a chicken with my head cut off and stressing about reaching the events on time, and within moments of getting to each event, it cancelled.
It got to the point where I showed up within 2 minutes of the recording session only to find the door to the recording studio on campus was locked and the office next to it was closed. I knocked on the door and asked how to access that studio and they told me that I needed to bring my own TA because it's Summer. At this point, I got really frustrated. I wasn't allowed to keep the appointment I was paying them for because they didn't list on their website that a TA was required. And this was the second day in a row that I didn't get to record this project - a project that's due tomorrow - because their website was giving me the wrong information. I wanted to just go off on them. I didn't, because they're technically not in charge of the website or the recording studio, so it's really not their fault, but when your website is so bad that someone loses 2 days of productivity because your website doesn't bother to tell its users really important information like "We aren't actually offering bookings for this day" or "You'll have to bring in a TA during the Summer" - changes that would take me 5 minutes to fix - you obviously need a better IT department. Since BYU has such a high concentration of computer-literate people and 2 IT departments, I feel like they can do better than a few websites that are barely functioning on a good day and don't do its users much benefit on a bad day.
I finally texted a friend and told her how stressful it was and said "I feel like exactly the same thing would have happened (and I would be less stressed, though more disappointed in myself) if I hadn't woken up today." She replied that she's glad I woke up today, because even though the things didn't work out, those weren't my fault. She's right. They weren't my fault. I just don't like being late for stuff, and it's infuriating when I try so hard to be late only to find out that all my efforts were in vain.
OK, now that I've vented enough, time to hit Publish.
I woke up too late and got to class 40 minutes late. Then the moment I got out of class, it was time to schedule appointments with people: 2 Skype lessons, a recording session, and a film shoot. I started running around like a chicken with my head cut off and stressing about reaching the events on time, and within moments of getting to each event, it cancelled.
It got to the point where I showed up within 2 minutes of the recording session only to find the door to the recording studio on campus was locked and the office next to it was closed. I knocked on the door and asked how to access that studio and they told me that I needed to bring my own TA because it's Summer. At this point, I got really frustrated. I wasn't allowed to keep the appointment I was paying them for because they didn't list on their website that a TA was required. And this was the second day in a row that I didn't get to record this project - a project that's due tomorrow - because their website was giving me the wrong information. I wanted to just go off on them. I didn't, because they're technically not in charge of the website or the recording studio, so it's really not their fault, but when your website is so bad that someone loses 2 days of productivity because your website doesn't bother to tell its users really important information like "We aren't actually offering bookings for this day" or "You'll have to bring in a TA during the Summer" - changes that would take me 5 minutes to fix - you obviously need a better IT department. Since BYU has such a high concentration of computer-literate people and 2 IT departments, I feel like they can do better than a few websites that are barely functioning on a good day and don't do its users much benefit on a bad day.
I finally texted a friend and told her how stressful it was and said "I feel like exactly the same thing would have happened (and I would be less stressed, though more disappointed in myself) if I hadn't woken up today." She replied that she's glad I woke up today, because even though the things didn't work out, those weren't my fault. She's right. They weren't my fault. I just don't like being late for stuff, and it's infuriating when I try so hard to be late only to find out that all my efforts were in vain.
OK, now that I've vented enough, time to hit Publish.
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