Red River Hall: Making progress

Construction of Red River Hall is coming along. According to Dallas College, it will house 41 classrooms, three computer labs, an expanded Bloomberg finance and accounting lab, the Early College High School Education Partners Center, a conference room, a coffee shop and a cafeteria. The $33 million building is scheduled to open in June.

Like others, I had a million things on my mind and having to find a class without knowing the room number added fuel to the fire. Thankfully, I got helped from an alumna named Emily. She had already received her first bachelor’s degree and was excited to start her journey again.

She couldn’t see her classes online that morning due to the crash and had to come in early to find them. She had other things on her plate, and it was an inconvenience for her as well. Fortunately, she knew where she was going. Others were not so lucky.

Dallas College is huge and not having a working website leaves many displaced on all campuses. Walking through the halls I could see the distressed faces. I accidentally bumped into a girl on her phone sighing to herself saying “It isn’t working! What am I going to do?” She had to do like the rest of us and endure.

Luckily, I found my class, but my heart went out to those who couldn’t.

Even though it was brief, it was interesting to see what kind of damage a brief website crash could do. Students and staff rely on optimum performance on all platforms, so timely access is key.

Dallas College does its best with providing students, faculty and staff with proper technolgy and maintance, but heavy traffick can cause problems.

Hopefully it will be the last of any major technical difficulties in the future and everyone can look forward to a smooth-running website.