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eredien....You know. The one where the devil is playing new-age rock hits into a booth where a man is screaming and beating against the door?
"Charlie Parker's Personal Hell."
My personal purgatory would be Census Tract 176.01, Block Group 6.
The actual finding-of-the-census-data wasn't so bad. Except that it took about 5 hours to finish, and I'd already been working since 5:30 on Chaucer and Russian, and had had to skip Kendo, and had completed an entire Virginia Woolf novel with my spare moments in the rest of the day.
And I still have two essays to write. Yippee.
The maps you needed took nearly two minutes, each, to come up. And then you had to go and repeat the entire process again for the 1990 census, which used an entirely different system of getting you where you needed to go because of the way the menus and the fact that the census districts were set up differently 10 years ago.
The thing deserves a place in the interface hall of shame. Each time you wanted to change your data set you got to go back and look through a big list...and it was a different list for the 1990 and the 2000 census, because they'd changed and eliminated some categories.
It wasn't the worst thing I've had to do for college, mind you. And I'm glad I don't have to be involved in the actual writing-of-the-paper. I did volunteer to do this, after all.
But this is why I hate group projects. Even if I like the people in the group.
"Charlie Parker's Personal Hell."
My personal purgatory would be Census Tract 176.01, Block Group 6.
The actual finding-of-the-census-data wasn't so bad. Except that it took about 5 hours to finish, and I'd already been working since 5:30 on Chaucer and Russian, and had had to skip Kendo, and had completed an entire Virginia Woolf novel with my spare moments in the rest of the day.
And I still have two essays to write. Yippee.
The maps you needed took nearly two minutes, each, to come up. And then you had to go and repeat the entire process again for the 1990 census, which used an entirely different system of getting you where you needed to go because of the way the menus and the fact that the census districts were set up differently 10 years ago.
The thing deserves a place in the interface hall of shame. Each time you wanted to change your data set you got to go back and look through a big list...and it was a different list for the 1990 and the 2000 census, because they'd changed and eliminated some categories.
It wasn't the worst thing I've had to do for college, mind you. And I'm glad I don't have to be involved in the actual writing-of-the-paper. I did volunteer to do this, after all.
But this is why I hate group projects. Even if I like the people in the group.