Captain Kirk

Its very true. My English professor is Captain James T. Kirk.

It didn't bother me at the beginning because I just figured he was trying to come up with intelligent sounding words to show off his supposedly extensive vocabulary...

Wrong.

His normal speech pattern is almost a mimic of William Shatner's character!

He continues to tell us things as if he is ordering us around a spaceship, and he constantly reminds us of our "duties," and he always has this implication about him that he is better than all of us put together.

As he has said: "All of your works. Will. Come out. Bloody-with. Red. Ink, form all the. Grammatical Errors on your essays." while never once recognizing his grammatical errors in speech. Now, of course, this really is irrelevant because speech and written works are very different, but just because he is so avid about gramme and punctuation, one might think that he'd practice it in every aspect of the language.

So, how is it having Captain Kirk as a teacher?

Well, it's actually not that bad. He had to put up with me laughing a few times, but I always redirected my amusement towards something on the Internet or other aspect of the class. I've never told him how he speaks. I kinda like having him for a teacher. He is indeed knowledgeable and such; plus he thinks the topics I bring up in class are fun and interesting, but the fact still remains that he talks like Captain Kirk. It almost helps me get up out of bed in the morning knowing that I'll soon be on the set of an old star trek episode.

-Bill

1) Roof Access

An idea we've been tossing around since the beginning the semester was to get us roof access to every building on campus. Although only odd feasible reasons for this existed...we decided to go through with it. Given the layout of our school...we decided to break it down into several parts. I'll give the ones we've accomplished thus far, then give a layout for those untouched.


1- To start this trial off we started with something very simple and went tot he top of the parking garage. They do have it blocked off so Cars can no longer park there...but people can, no problem. Its nice, usually windy... 8 Stories up.

2- Link Lee mansion, 2 Stories. Our school is Rather old, and the main office building is called Link Lee. On the outside of the building there is a ladder, most likely used for a fire escape, and has access to the very top of the roof. We've gone up several times as of now, and it has a fantastic view, but it is kinda creepy.

3- Our dorm building Guinan Hall. 3 stories tall, courtyard with exposed roof, and streets on every side. After hearing about access for a day or so, we looked around to see if such a point was even possible. We found it. An unlocked utility room granted us access to the only ladder capable of reaching the roof from the inside.

Left to go!

The entire academic Mall - consists of 9 buildings that are all interrelated through every level except basement levels. Counting this all as one will be adequate because if you CAN get tot he top of one...you can get to the rest of them no problem. We've located the entryways to the same utility rooms as the one in guinan, and we've seen from the top of the parking garage that every building in the Mall has roof access...now there is only time before we reach our next goal!

Jerebeck - Our gym, possibly the most difficult to reach the top of...it is tallest..has no visible or known entryway to the top...and would be impossible to scale...this one will require more time...

Crooker - the general area for students...where we eat...where we get our daily requests fulfilled...it has one very large peaked window that goes from side to side...and an interesting side building attached to it at a smaller level. Although only 2 stories, it has no known roof access...but an improvisional one is being made by us...and a ladder...

I think I've covered most of them...I know there are others...but I'll cover them in another post...and keep these updated with completion!

-Bill