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One of my teachers drops files in some drive that is only available through the wired network within the college (not through the wi-fi) instead of using the web portal thingie that is designed for that and super convenient and the expected standard and is available from home, and it fucks everyone over because half of the class is using laptops so we have to waste up to 20 minutes (not kidding) to boot up a desktop PC just so we can get a couple text files so we can do exercises or even exams. And if someone accidentally opens any file directly from the drive instead of copying it first, then nobody can open the dang thing until we find the culprit. My major has its own public server so one guy usually dumps everything there you we can get it through the wi-fi, but it's been down a lot lately so we can't even do that anymore.
Also it doesn't help that the teacher's file organization is unfathomably messy. Files range from Office, OfficeXML, OpenDocument (never PDF because that would be convenient) and have, with no exception, consonant-pasta allcap non-descriptive names and are spread in a thousand sub-sub-sub-folders without any logic or explanations. On the de-facto root of the drive (actually a folder within a folder within a folder), we have 10 files with unreadable similar names that may or may not be theory and one, indistinguishable from the others, that contains a table that tells us what exercises are related to any given part of the theory, for three different projects. No indication whatsoever as to where those exercises might be, what the folder for that project is called, etc. When you eventually find the right folder for a given project (by trying them all one by one), you have to open every single file within its 5 subfolders (and their 2-3 respective subfolders) and the ones directly within the project folder to potentially find a non-specific file with a name that in no way suggests it might contain exercises. Then you have to hunt down the solutions for said exercises, which appear not to exist for the most part, except for the ones that are on the fucking college web portal thingie.
It's not that the teacher doesn't understand or doesn't know about the portal, she just won't use it. Unless her drive is unavailable for some reason, which happens all the time but especially when we have to fetch files needed for an exam or to turn them in once we're done, at which point she will put all of her stuff on the portal but complain about it being a dirty suboptimal workaround that won't happen again, don't worry.
I have two classes with that teacher. Each one uses a different drive. One of them is only available from the PCs in two labs. The other one requires knowing the address, login and password of a hidden samba share only accessible from the also hidden wi-fi network that is only available from a single, always-locked-except-when-we're-having-a-class-in-it room and of which you need to remember the ip, ssid, login and password to connect to.
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