I hate this clumsy managing!

One more week off, according to the latest schedule for the new semester. That means one more week staying at home, doing nothing but just sleeping, eating and sticking into Facebook. Then have to fake a smile and pull the nearby neighbor's legs by telling them "I've been kicked out of school", whenever they ask why I'm still messing around here. They all seem to start believing that I'm indeed an expellee. Ridiculous, but quite annoyed and bored!

I was ablaze with anger when Puwa woke me up from my deep nap this afternoon, only to announce me of the newly-changed-for-the-hundredth-times schedule. I had received it the day before, and strongly believed (and hoped) that it would be the last and official one. Yet it was not. They have, for the 3rd time within 3 days, changed it. For this last alteration, they simply posted the new one on the website and do nothing else to let us know. They did mention this before, saying that we need to keep track of the website, in order not to miss any news from them. Yet I wonder whether they've ever thought how many of us could be available to online 24/7 only to track their announcements?

This is the greatest drawback of the USSH and, to some extent, of the DELL staff as well. This is, moreover, not the first time they irritate their students this way, so I really cannot stand it. They just forget that they are in charge of managing a UNIVERSITY, which has the particular characteristic of having its students coming from all around the country. It’s not a high school; they should bear in mind this. Yet they do not. They always think that the students are all in HCMC, and are available all the time for any of their summons. Last week, they requested all the students to attend the Politics class, just for one morning. They didn't care, and even needed not to know that in order to be there, many had to take the train or a long-journey coach. Then what? After attending that stupid course, they had to choose whether to stay in HCMC doing nothing or to back to their hometown, because the summer holiday was yet to end. It's waste of time as well as money. Staying at the expensive city but doing nothing there, or buying another expensive coach/train ticket to come back. What would you choose?

Supposing that they decided to stay in and waiting for the schedule to know when school will start. Then they were happy to know that they only had to stay there for a few days until the new school year began (at the beginning of this week). They, however, would get angry like me today to find that things were not that smooth. The timetable has been changed (not once but triple), and according to this new one, school will start a week later than the time mentioned in the old one. So what? It means one more week staying-at-the-city-and-doing-nothing-but-spending-a-great-amount-of-money-everyday; and that they have been staying and waiting during the last week mean nothing but a waste of time and money.

What about those choosing to come back to their hometown? They would have been here (HCMC) yesterday to be ready for school today (according to the old timetable). Now they learned that their arrival and being ready are meaningless. Again, they will have to choose whether to stay here for a week or come back again and then move to HCM next week. Vicious circle! How many money and how much time have been wasted then?

USSH and DELL students may yet to forget the time when they were played a trick on by the school last year. They were summoned to school for the credit registration, and when everybody were ready there in the school, the staff said nothing but told them to dissolve. This year, they made this again. They had announced the time for the registration, so I and my friends (and many other students, I believe) came to HCMC a day earlier. Yet when we've just arrived, we were told that the registration has been canceled, and we had nothing to do there in the city. Still have weeks of summer holiday. Then having no choice but caught another 5 buses to back to home. This again shows the clumsiness in managing of the school. They did know that they had to make an announcement to inform the students, but the problem is they always make it when everything are all done, i.e. it's too late for us students to follow their new information. Thank you all, but it is helpless.

What's next? Lots of thing to say about this !@#%& school. However, I'm not the sort of person who easily gets angry or saying bad things about the place they belong to. I always force myself to think of it positively, and if I cannot love it, just try not to hate it too much. So that's enough for my !#$&^&@ USSH, I'm more and more losing my love for it. Yet still have 2 years here, so just try to survive.