OttawaU Kills Trees

The UO School of Managment, whose wonderful admin has bungled my registration countless times (now my Infoweb account shows that I have not graduated after all - just wait til I take a bite out of them tomorrow!) is prone to sending paper junk-mail to unsuspecting students.

This glossy piece of paper-waste is meant to inform us plebes about the Mindtrust Leadership Development Program. Now first of all, fellow students, this is your tuition money at work. Secondly, what the heck kind of name is Mindtrust? Reminds me of the Matrix, some brain-washing activity is definitely going on here; even if it's just to suck the creative energy out of young people. Bah, we know, we know: that's why we all signed up for this.

Well folks: if you need to take ANOTHER leadership development program after hacking away at a B.Com for 4+ years, there is something mightily wrong with you. Perhaps the SOM didn't teach us enough about self-confidence, or maybe they're just saving up for the next huge, state-of-the-art building to house their huge, state-0f-the-art ego. What will you actually learn? Well according to the Testimonials section of the Mindtrust pamphlet, you'll learn how to spin your rhetoric with the greatest of ease.

Classes we didn't take but might as well have:

1. Cumbersome verbosity 1101.
2. The art of looking smart 2020.
3. The art of looking smart 2021: Just in case you didn't get it the first time.
4. Defending a lost cause 4052.
5. Sucking up 3031: a social and economic history.

This should've been my last day as an undergraduate student; instead I have to f*** around with the administration and convince them that yes, ahem, I have completed all the d*** credits. And you know what you can do with your Dean's List? Stuff it up your f***ing a**.

I'm outa here.