12 December 2005
The Saddest Page in the O-Universe
Filed under Life
There’s a great big world of pages related to Olin out there. Some of them are fun. Some of them are ugly. Some of them are just plain awful (*cough* BB *cough*). But I think the absolute saddest page is students.olin.edu. That’s right: the main student index.
Why is this so sad? Because free webspace is a pretty damn sweet luxury, and almost no one uses it. I’m “winning” the most recently updated game with a quick change to my site last weekend for Computer Architecture.
Were there only empty sites, just names waiting to mapped to index pages, that wouldn’t be so rough: that could be one of two things. 1) People don’t know how to make websites or 2) People don’t have time to make websites. But many of the sites have dates in the 2004 and even 2003 range.
I don’t know why, but when I see a website a student made here in 2003, I get a little misty. I flashback to what was important to me, who I hung out with, what I thought was cool. I want to reach out to that kid, because that’s all I was then. I want to reach out, and tell him the things I was once nervous about don’t matter. I want to tell him that life is a state of mind. I also want to tell him to study Maxwell’s Equations more.
I get nostalgic. I want to relive my past, my mistakes. I have few regrets, a few things said I want to take back. I wonder if things would have been different if I had turned left instead of right, said yes instead of no. But I like my mistakes, like how they’ve become part of me, how I’ve learned, how I’ve grown.
I have things left to do in life, questions left unanswered. I still can’t figure out how to ask a girl out on a date. I worry. I worry that I worry.
But I know I’m OK. And that’s all that matters.
:: Adam
12 December 2005 @ 4:03 am
For me, I’ve just found that the space doesn’t fit my needs very effectively. I use linux all the time. 24/7. I’d much rather use ACL webspace, or space on Lemming, or space on my personal server than screw around with an IT box. They haven’t always been great about running the latest versions of PHP and the like either, which I sometimes end up using.
So I just use it for class projects, really.
12 December 2005 @ 5:21 pm
Yeah, for the stuff that I do, it wasn’t really cutting it. However, I do connect it to my REAL webpage with a redirect, so my name is linked. (Just no update date because it’s a dynamic page.)
One interesting thing about students.o is that the script for determining if something should be linked or not runs EVERY HALF HOUR, pinging every single root page. I just noticed it by looking at my site’s Apache logs. Not a huge deal, just seems a bit excessive to me.