Climbing the Walls

Fri, April 6, 2007
Filed under: Coding

[edit: 8th April] Many thanks to Jem, for helping me fix the textarea in Internet Explorer :dance:. And now go and join Snark Forums! I’m already addicted to it/them.
:star: I can’t believe I missed this. In the Aesthetically Challenged article, I forgot to add colspan=”2″ to the cells that contained the header image, respectively the footer. Why didn’t anyone tell me?! I’m so ashamed. But it’s fixed now.[/edit]

Up until now, I thought that “to climb the walls” was simply an expression1 meant to illustrate extreme frustration; my university’s maintenance department however, proved me wrong. Among many notices for internships, school demonstrations, prohibition of smoking (and whatever else people see fit to ‘decorate’ the walls with), there was the following one, right inside the main lobby:

Get your feet off the walls!

Given the fact that the chairs are arranger in the middle of the lobby, far away from any wall, I’ve come to the following conclusion: people must find finals very stressful2… or they’re training for some martial arts tournament :?
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1 At least, when it is not in mentioned in reference to Spiderman.

2 … and have taken to literally try out climbing the walls.

12 Comments

  1. Mar on Sat, April 7, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    That’s… kind of weird. I do wonder why they had that up…

     
  2. Tracy on Sun, April 8, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    I honestly have never seen a note like that in my universtiy building.

    We have notes in the computer rooms saying “get your drink out of the room” which is kind of frustrating. I do understand that it’s not “perfect” to drink around the area of a PC, but if you have class for four hours you NEED to drink.

    You should see how happy the professors are when someone of us (all over 24 years of age and know how to drink whilst sitting infront of a PC-keyboard) drinks. That’s when they can show their “power” by saying “you are not allowed to drink in here”… :fist:

    Thanks a lot for your comment. So, the star is very web2.0? Some things I notice on every web2 site (gradients, badges…) and some things I seem to just not see (like stars). ;-)

     
  3. Vera on Mon, April 9, 2007 at 6:44 am

    That really sounds annoying. My professors don’t really have anything with us eating/drinking in the lab… or at least I never knew about it.

    What they DO draw the line at, is when anyone brings their own PC (why someone would carry one to school, up 3 flights of stairs is beyond me). And laptops need the approval of the lab assistants.

    Perfection has a prime example of web 2.0 layout. It’s that pink star shaped thing that I see on many sites (Sillyish’s past layout and Ambie’s have it). You use it differently, but it’s there :P . But I like the glossyness of all.

     
  4. Belinda on Mon, April 9, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    Off topic Vera, but I saw your comment on Snark or something, but you said that Perfection contacted you after they rejected you? I’m pretty sure I didn’t get in either (it’s been a while since I submitted) but I haven’t recieved a word from them. Do I need to contact them myself first?

     
  5. Vera on Mon, April 9, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    I wrote to Bubs asking to tell me the reasons for rejections, if that was the case (I wrote before the week was up). And she forwarded me the reviews anonymously. Her e-mail was a reply to mine… so maybe this is not usually done.

     
  6. Jack on Tue, April 10, 2007 at 6:21 am

    When I lived on campus, there was a whole week where my friends and I would come out of the dining hall and get in the elevator to go upstairs and there’d be footprints on the elevator doors. Every night they got higher, apparently because these anonymous people were trying to impress each other. Finally I got sick of it and one night I took off my right shoe, held it up as high as I could, and smacked it against the door, leaving a footprint well above my head. Mysteriously, I didn’t see any more after that… :)

     
  7. Vera on Tue, April 10, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Whoa! You GO Jack ;)

     
  8. Brenda on Fri, April 13, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Uh, don’t tell anyone.

    But when I’m stressed, I tend to revise on my bed (with my head at the foot of the bed and my feet at the head of the bed), and resting my feet high up on the wall, creating footprints. :P Somehow, I seem to get a bit of thrill doing it.

     
  9. Vera on Sat, April 14, 2007 at 6:07 am

    :grin: I do that too… though not necessarily when I’m stressed. Though I do wear socks :P

     
  10. Lauren on Sat, April 14, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    Heh, I do the same thing as you and Brenda. In middle school, though, we had a rule like that in reference to lockers–meaning “don’t kick the lockers,” since people tend to do that when they won’t open. :P

     
  11. Trisha on Tue, April 17, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Get your feets off the walls?

    That’s not too weird, considering the overload of studying I’ll have to indulge in the next few weeks.

     
  12. Vera on Tue, April 17, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    The weird fact was that there weren’t any chairs or stairs in the vicinity - so no ‘comfortable’ study place could be found there… so unless the students found themselves saddled with spiderman-like powers…

     

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