My math exam later today shall be in said building. Meh, won't affect me. Gon fail, regardless.

I was writing the Commerce exam tonight. That was extremely distracting. Bitchez can take them earplugz and turn em into butt plugz, dat wut I say

Try writing in TSH with a ****ing loud banging sound the entire time (did I mention 40% of the exam is listening?) while not being offered earplugs and the prof/invigilators going "lulzwutisthatthissuc ks"

WTF! instead of inconveniencing us, why not stop the damn construction for 2 weeks.

and exams in DBAC?!?!?!? that has just got to be THE stupidest thing I have ever heard...

I cannot wait to leave this school...it gets more and more disappointing every year...

Thank you MAC!

Originally Posted by SciMania

WTF! instead of inconveniencing us, why not stop the damn construction for 2 weeks.

They have to complete the construction by a certain date or they lose the federal funding for it and apparently they're already behind schedule....

Originally Posted by arathbon

They have to complete the construction by a certain date or they lose the federal funding for it and apparently they're already behind schedule....

Alot of projects right now are CEAP (Canada's Economic Action Plan) and was created to create jobs to help with the recession. Funding for the ends on March 31 and the project must be completed by that date in order to get funding. So there's alot of projects out there right now trying to fit into a tight timeline.
Construction cannot always be stopped and the contractor probably wouldn't have a project they could do for only 2 weeks.


You also have to think about it from DBAC's point of view. There's alot of paying members to use the facility and closing the track down for 2 weeks would create alot of angry users. I was told the track would most likely be closed during exams, so I canceled my membership a month sooner than I planned on. Why pay for time that's unusable?

I would not have enjoyed having exams in DBAC, but it's either that or in a gym with construction right there. Which is preferable?

Originally Posted by arathbon

They have to complete the construction by a certain date or they lose the federal funding for it and apparently they're already behind schedule....

Don't worry about the paying customers or anything.

Originally Posted by JBeans

You also have to think about it from DBAC's point of view. There's alot of paying members to use the facility and closing the track down for 2 weeks would create alot of angry users. I was told the track would most likely be closed during exams, so I canceled my membership a month sooner than I planned on. Why pay for time that's unusable?

The track is included in your tuition. The pulse is not....

Originally Posted by lawleypop

Don't worry about the paying customers or anything.

Don't worry about losing millions of dollars that have already been spent.

I agree the University has handled this very poorly, however shutting down the construction was probably not a very viable option.

Originally Posted by BlakeM

The track is included in your tuition. The pulse is not....

Note that I am alumni, so I don't have tuition. I have to pay for a base membership. I know of a few other people with it as well.

Originally Posted by lawleypop

Don't worry about the paying customers or anything.

I don't think they are going to lose too many "customers" to other universities because of some construction...

Originally Posted by bcars

I don't think they are going to lose too many "customers" to other universities because of some construction...

That's exactly what I said.

Not giving a **** about us = us going elsewhere. Yup.

Originally Posted by arathbon

They have to complete the construction by a certain date or they lose the federal funding for it and apparently they're already behind schedule....

Why would we care? It's not like they actually finish the construction while we are still in school.

Also, it's F-UCKING ridiculous how these douchebags were ****ing doing suicides right in view of everyone in DBAC(The track above).
They were stomping and shit, like seriously, shut the **** up, you look like a twig.

Originally Posted by lawleypop

That's exactly what I said.

Not giving a **** about us = us going elsewhere. Yup.

If we do campus tours and bring people to DBAC while students
are writing their exams to show what Mac is doing, then it will
have an impact.