I am a note taker for my environmental science class, which has an enrollment of 1,060 people. I am supposed to create web pages of notes that students can refer to when they ditch class. It is a freshman-level class that I have to take to graduate. Today I paid an unpleasant visit to our undergraduate teaching assistant.

Him: “Yeah, have a seat here.”

Me: “Thanks. I was hoping you could dig me out of this little hole I’ve gotten myself into. I just can’t figure out why my notes won’t post.”

“Right. Well, I can’t find the file that links your notes to the main page.”

“Aha. That’s because… I deleted it.”

“And why did you delete it?”

“Well..uh…Ha ha, you know, it’s a loooong story, I was in this other folder, and it seemed to me that…”

“…SO you need to make a new one. Do you know how to do that?”

“Uh…no.”

“Open this, click here, go to ‘new’, switch these thingies around here, save it under ‘index.html’ and you’re all set. And then you link up your notes to then main index. Did you catch that?”

“Umm….yes.”

“Is there anything else you’re unclear about? Because what I showed you right there, that thing I did that took me all of five seconds, is really the hardest part.”

“Well, how did you get the new file to come up?”

*sigh* “Okay, open this menu…”

It could have gone on for hours, if I didn’t have to pee so bad.