USP through your eyes

For the first weeks of the beginning of the semester, I have no laptop to do my assignments. I have to find the computer labs for a free PC to do my school works.  It’s a bit frustrating to find free PC because there are many students and the chances for you to find one are slim. I have visited all the Computer Labs in the campus. Most times I have to wait till students started going back, so I have to wake and work during the night times. This is only when you can find a free PC. But there are some interesting observations which became concerns to me.

Some Computers in the Labs are idle and not functioning. They are left unfixed and were there for almost the semester now. This is a contributing factor to the shortage of computers. I believe USP has IT specialists who are employed to look after the computers and fixed them for students’ use. Why these computers do left unfixed?  All the computer labs have problems with the PCs inside.

This is one of the many computers in the Ware House Computer lab which lays idle and unfixed.  Almost half of the computers in the lab are not functioning.

Another observation which I personally feel as a concern is the observation of rules in the Ware House Computer Lab. The Rules are clearly put out for students to obey and adhere to. However, it was observed that there was no attention paid to the notice. The Rules are not observed, almost all of them. For example, Laptops are not allowed to be used in the lab, but most students are seen using laptops in the lab. No disciplinary were considered to be taken. So who’s not doing his job here and who’s not obeying the rules here?

Ware House Computer Lab rules. Most of these rules are seen breached by lab users.

One of the interesting observations in the Computer Labs is the usage of the computers. All the Computer Labs visited, it seemed that more than half of the student users are just on face book chatting and watching you tube movies. This leads me to think that some students are just using the computers for leisure whilst some who are in need to complete assignments on time are still not having a chance to do so. Face book is not a bad thing and after all every student has the right to use the Lab computers, but is it serving the prioritized  purpose? Some students might need to finish a worthwhile work other Face book chatting.

Lab Computers used on Face Book to chat with friends.