Starting a New Semester

Well, I moved back into Residence. The bottom of my room's door is smashed apart and I'm missing my Ethernet cable. It's not quite as bad as it sounds, I guess. I can still close and lock the door, so it doesn't seem like a robbery attempt. And I guess I can imagine that someone accidentally knocked some equipment against my door while they were installing the heating unit or whatever they said they were going to do while I was gone. But it's still kind of hard not to connect the two events of having your door smashed and having something disappear when they happen back-to-back like this.

Too bad for them that the most precious item I left behind was my Ethernet cable. I got another one today for $17. I can see them rummaging through what I'd left behind and being like "This guys doesn't have anything! This cable looks electronic. Maybe it's worth something." And then they smash my door out of frustration when they leave.

You're not even supposed to need an Ethernet cable around here, but I can't find anything on Wireless. One of my friends came over and used my laptop to get Wireless, but he won't tell me the secret. This is also the guy who fixed my keypad. Another one of my friends said the Wireless  is really spotty oif you get on, and he has a laptop but uses Wireless.

Just you wait. Residence is going to bill me for breaking the door. I'll file a complaint as soon as possible and hopefully we can avoid this.

Remember that hand-vacuum I bought? Don't remember if I went into this, but it doesn't work. Before putting it to use, I'd tried it out, but the problem is that it takes a ridiculous amount of time to charge and then works stellar for a short span of time before dying and needing to recharge. I wound up buying a broom and trying to sweep my carpet before leaving Res.

Had to buy the dust pan separately, and they didn't have any normal ones, so I had to buy a "Utility dustpan" for like, $3 (okay, doesn't sound as bad in writing, but I was annoyed at the time). It has a handle, which I don't even want, much less get put with additional charges for.

Bought my books today. Pretty "Not horrible". Last semester, I expected to pay about $600, which my Mom said wasn't bad considering that she was willing to pay up to $1000 a semester in her course. I managed to catch a break and get some used last semester, too, which maybe knocked the total price to something around $400. I tried to sell my books last semester, and one of them was not in demand, one I never got, one I damaged so they couldn't take it, one I need for next semester, and one I managed to sell for $40. The one that stopped being in demand, I know other people sold for $80. Just like buying, you've got to be quick qith selling.

Theoretically, if you buy a used book for a cut price and then sell it at end of semester, you can come out of it almost as if you didn't spend any money, but it doesn't usually work like that. The book I damaged was considered as such because the edge of a few pages were kind of yellowed. Maybe I walked through the rain with them.