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I drive an 1988 Isuzu pickup truck. It has been in three accidents, owned by two other people, has 129,000 miles and only cost $100 for our family to buy. Not bad if you ask me.

Of course, I have spent at least $3,000 on repairs and about $200 on parking tickets from Cabrini's fine public safety force.

Just the other day, my friend Mary, who drives a nice Saab, traded cars with me for the weekend, so you can probably guess what I did.

I drove to the city.

It was so much fun, cruising up and down the streets in a nice car. Heads definitely turned. Yeah baby!

Of course, with all the luck that I have had, later that night, after a trip to Wawa, something went wrong. As I parked the car in front of House six, the windows would not roll up. I went nuts, screaming and cursing and completely losing my cool. After a good 20 minutes I figured out that the fuse had blown, and in no time at all I took care of it.

Maybe you are wondering what the hell I am talking about. Well, the moral of the story is that more or less all good things will eventually catch up with you. This usually happens to me, and it sucks, but you learn to deal with it. I'm not trying to tell a sob story, but this situation made me think of my life at school.

As you can tell, I usually think and come up with this "revolutionary" idea about how much school sucks.

I'm one of the few lucky students who attends Cabrini and who lives on campus. I'm also lucky because when I graduated high school, I sold my car and bought a laptop. So for me, having to do a paper or e-mail a friend is just a hop, skip and a jump away. For many others, checking e-mail or having a chance to do a paper is al- are not done? I don't think so. So why do we have to suffer? Because nobody wants to admit that they are wrong.

So we the students are left with no way to do our papers and homework, yet we are taught in high school that we are supposed to be prepared for college. This means that we are going to do lots of work. I cannot understand why I have to be prepared and the school does not. It seems like they do not really care about our needs. I do not think that is very fair.

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most obsolete. You might ask why it is so hard to use a computer in one of the labs located in Founders Hall. You know what? I'm going to tell you what I think.

My theory on the computers in the lab is plain and simple. I think that it is hard to believe that with all of these students that the school is enrolling every year, there are only 20 or 30 computers for them to use, and they are all located in one room. The best thing about that is you cannot even use them! This is because the school could not get the computer labs finished in time for the school year. So, because the school could not get the job done the first time, we have to suffer at the hands of the computer gods. Is it our fault that the computer labs

If I do not send my tuition check or damage bill in time, then I get penalized by not being able to go to class, register or, like this summer, get my report card until the beginning of July. So why does Cabrini get away with not meeting their deadlines? Why don't they get penalized? If I have to pay for a service and it is not ready when I get there, why do I have to pay?

All I can say is that it is unfair and a rip-off. With that, I offer Cabrini a challenge. The challenge is for them to explain themselves. Why did it take so long and why we are paying for things that we cannot use? Since we cannot use the computers for the entire semester, why don't we get back some of our money? I offer this challenge to you. Let's see if you can meet it.

JoeElliottis a juniormajoringin English/ communication.Heistheperspectives editorof Loquitur.Hewillsellhiscarto thefirstpersonwillingto registerit.

CorrectionsBox:

In the fall sports preview on page 14 of Issue 1, junior Michelle Gabriel should have been listed as a captain of the women's soccer team.

In the article "Performance drug Creatine creating a name for itself' on page 15 of issue 1, fitness coordinator Tracey Greenwood was misidentified.

To the student body for not coming out to the Fall Fling. Just to let you know, it was a great time.

To the media for exploiting the life of Bill Clinton. compiled