Since joining the department student association, I’ve found that the seniors are getting more and more… abstract. How should I put this? Is it because courses like Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Discrete Mathematics are too abstract, which has made all the seniors weird and strange?
Now I’ll take you through the various strange behaviors of these seniors! Actually, I’m just calling them out one by one
Department Coordinator
Incident 1
When recruiting staff for the camp, they said it would take about six hours per week to practice, but the actual time spent on various activities has far exceeded that number. Just one activity alone requires six hours of practice per week, and no one is responsible for only one activity, so the accumulated time is definitely not negligible. Additionally, they didn’t inform candidates about the staff fee during recruitment. I only learned about this fee at the briefing session, and it was too late to withdraw by then. There’s been no further news since, so I won’t discuss it further. But this series of actions makes it feel like “lure people in first, deal with the consequences later.”
Incident 2
Regarding the “North, Central, South Welcoming Events,” they uploaded all the first-year students’ information to the department’s main group chat. No personal data protection whatsoever was implemented. Everyone in the group could download the file, which contained the mailing addresses and phone numbers of all first-year freshmen.
(The data has been blurred to protect personal information, keeping only student IDs to prove they are freshmen)
明明這種重要的事情，可以請負責人用學校的domain，寄一封信給全系大一的新生。學校的學生信箱很有規律，寫一隻 Python 就可以輕鬆解決。程式設計都白修了。一個一個打電話過去問，不僅浪費時間、沒有效率，還有很大的機會被當成詐騙，造成負責人的麻煩。如此，負責人也不需要大一新生的資料，他們的個資也不會有危險。
Abstract Seniors
One
I think he’s strange. He thinks we have problems but doesn’t come directly to us. Instead, he goes to the vice-department coordinators and asks them to relay the message. If there’s a problem, just say it directly instead of going around in circles. Moreover, we completely don’t understand what his issue is. His complaint was: “You should be polite to seniors, I think you’re not polite.” What I want to say is, what era are we in now? The senior-junior hierarchy system has become ridiculous, and we’re still demanding such things. We’ve said what needed to be said and done what needed to be done. Truly abstract.
Two
When taking a certain course, I encountered a senior who said: “This course is very hard to get into for juniors and seniors, why would a sophomore try to grab it?!” (with a weird expression). What I mean is, the school’s system is designed so that juniors and seniors get to select courses first. You have the power to queue up first but choose not to, and then come to complain during add-drop. Having no logic is one thing, but it’s also meaningless. With such illogical reasoning, it’s no wonder so many courses weren’t passed. Even if you get into this course, you might not pass it anyway. Don’t waste this precious spot!
A Small Murmur from Being the Web Admin
In the short three months of being a web admin, I’ve noticed that a lot of posts are really unnecessary. Take the freshman tea party as an example: if you want to notify everyone about the freshman tea party, the best approach is email. As I mentioned earlier, everyone’s email in the department can be generated in seconds with a Python script. Using the school’s domain to send emails can avoid the risk of being mistaken for spam and won’t get filtered into the spam folder, so everyone can receive the message.
But the current approach is to post messages on closed platforms without open-source access and where you need an account to view content (don’t doubt it, Facebook and Instagram). How can anyone think this will ensure everyone receives the message? Why put important information you want to convey on the deep web? Even if many people use these platforms, if you don’t have an account, you won’t receive any news. This is extremely unfair to students who don’t use Instagram or Facebook.
Additionally, posts after events are also completely meaningless. If you’re only posting because previous years did it, then this tradition should be abolished. Nobody actually reads that post…
Everything that needed to be said has been said, and everything that needed to be criticized has been criticized. If someone says: “If you really dare to complain, why don’t you post on Instagram?” My response is: why would I rant on the deep web when I can do it on the public web?