Still without wireless
We still don't have wireless internet. It is as if NEC is afraid to move forward. I wonder what IT has to say about this. Everyone wants it. The technology is extremely available and practices and policies regarding the use of wireless is commonplace. It can't be a technicality. I don't even think it's money. That's too easy. There has to be something deeper like a tumor that's just making everything difficult.
What will it take to make NEC go forward? Is it really just money? Could it be the administration? Maybe it's just the it ain't broke so don't fix it retro mentality that pervades NEC.
posted by NEC Student @ 12:18 AM
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A few thoughts from the NEC network administrator regarding your recent comments on wireless access:
You said regarding wireless access, "Everyone wants it. The technology is extremely available and practices and policies regarding the use of wireless is commonplace."
I agree that wireless is the "in" technology right now and it is convenient and even "hip". However, you have to understand the difference in availability between "consumer" and "enterprise" levels. What people here at NEC usually mean when they say that something is "readily available" is that something is available to them... as consumers. As an example, you can get Internet service these days from a wide variety of different providers. However, there is a difference between a fully redundant, OC-192 gigabit carrier-class pipeline and a horse-and-buggy modem to AOL. NEC is a multi-million dollar enterprise that is ill-served by a $20 off-Craigslist solution.
Concordantly, because the issue of scale is now relevant when you extend the idea of wireless access to an enterprise, your practices and policies have to adjust to that arena. As much as students like to ignore, the fact remains that NEC is a business. It is a non-profit organization, but it is a business nonetheless. We take students and money, and we churn out world-class musicians and world-class reputation. To that end, everything NEC owns becomes a resource that must be managed - and managed well - if NEC is to fulfill its primary institutional mission. In this context, wireless access - if there is ever going to be one available - cannot be considered as a free-for-all college hangout. It must be managed as an enterprise-level business resource with a rock-solid, well-thought and well-planned system of policies, support structure, and technical cohesiveness. Would you, the students, really want us to put all of the above together in a slapdash, cheap-skate fashion?
(By the way, if you really want wireless access RIGHT NOW, feel free to get a Linksys wireless access point for your apartment for $60. The WAP is readily available in MicroCenter and CompUSA.)
Finally, I don't expect you to be an expert in the areas I have just touched on, but I do expect that students of NEC conduct themselves with class and maturity, and seek honest discussion rather than placing blame on an institutional "retro mentality". Accusations like that have no place at NEC and are usually not conducive toward getting things done, though they may seem heady and even exciting at first.
dude, I'm an NEC alumna and everytime I think of nec i feel like puking... well, maybe it is because it is there that i met the most stupid boyfriend i've ever had.
but i also had the most amazing and underrated piano teacher on earth: randy hodgkinson.
thank you nec! because of you and your bullshit i'm not playing piano anymore! i do a much cooler thing now than to spend my time with a bunch of retards (that is, conservatory musicians, or even worse: classical musicians) I write music for films.
It sounds like you are writing music for 16-year-old retards, the major demographic for movies. Based on your lack of civility, I'm sure you fit in with the other uneducated retards. What music did you compose, er write--American Pie 3 or Road House 2?
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