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Note: I edited this entry from the one I posted this morning. Scroll down for more goodies.


What are you doing here? sarah's updated her site, and it looks sweet. The new design has the feel and sentimentality of a Hallmark card, without the superficiality. Go go go! Warning: If you listen to the "You and Me Song" on her site, you will have it stuck in your head all day and will get laughed at by co-workers when you start going "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba" without noticing it.


In fact, today must be new layout day. Jennie's is simple and elegant. Liz is experimenting with design more and makes me wish it were summer already. *sigh*


*RANT WARNING*


Ok...I'm not actually angry or anything...maybe a tad frustrated. But I feel like writing this.


Something nice about UC Davis is that instructors actually go out of their way meet with students, typically through office hours.


Unfortunately, whoever designed Engineering Unit II (EUII for all you savvy engineering types) seemed to have the sole intent of making sure students never actually made it to office hours. You cannot find anything in that labrythine building without a full disaster search-and-rescue squad at your side, complete with dogs and a helicopter.


I tried to find my TA's office tonight. Now EUII has the advantage over older buildings on campus in that it looks awfully pretty from the outside. Unfortunately, this is just to hide the fact that there's no discernible logic behind the placement of rooms, hallways, and doors. I have seen a door that opens to nothing. Literally. It's just a drop off, with a guard rail to ensure that some poor schmuck wouldn't plummet to certain death.


In taking the stairwell to the third floor, I found out that there's a SECRET floor. I'm not kidding. I entered the stairwell on the second floor. I went up one flight of stairs to an unmarked door. I went in, and there was a hallway and some rooms. All the room numbers began with "2" though. I went back to the stairwell and went up to the next door. It was marked "3". So there's a floor between the second floor and the third floor? What would that be, the second and a half floor?


Finding the right floor is only the beginning. Once on the third floor, I still had to find the right office. There are a number of signs posted at random corners that helpfully point you in the wrong direction. The numbering of rooms follows no logical order, either, so I had to wander aimlessly for five minutes, as I followed halls that looped back to where I began.


Eventually, I found my TA's office. It's stuck around the corner in a hallway that goes nowhere; it just sort of ends suddenly. What is the point of a hallway that goes nowhere? I suppose that the architect is allowed his or her artistic license. Perhaps he or she is trying to say that in the hallway of life, we can meet the end that is death unexpectedly. Which is all nice and good, but as a student, I don't particularily care for metaphysical allusions in architecture. I'm just looking for extra help.