Okay. This isn’t really important at all. Lizie made the request for more blogging action, and I’m just making it happen. That said, GIS is a bitch. What is GIS? Glad you asked. It stands for ‘Geographical Information Systems’, or alternatively ‘God’s Insufferable Shit’. Think I’m being a tad melodramatic? I don’t.
GIS, in summary, is sitting at a computer and imputing data in order to make maps. This wouldn’t be so bad if the data itself wasn’t so unidentifiable. It’s also helped by the fact that if you screw up there’s no way of knowing you’ve screwed up… So you continue following the steps, then BAM! You have a bunch of red crosses staring you in the face going ‘You are a moron because you screwed up something you did 2 hours ago and now you have to do 2 hours of work all over again! HAHAHA!’
But there’s more.
The oversized step-by-step course book given to you is riddled with typos and errors, just making it easier for you to give a file the wrong name and then wonder why you can’t find it 3 weeks later.
Finally you produce your pretty map of Sydney depicting population density, and then all of a sudden the program crashes because the computer it’s on just wasn’t built to hold so much excrement. You sit their crying, wondering why you didn’t save earlier. But then you remember that saving would have made all your stupid mistakes from earlier permanent!
People not taking this course wouldn’t really understand it. A girl in my class arrived an hour early for today’s 3 hour prac so she was positive she could leave on time. In the end something screwed up, even though she’d been following the instructions perfectly. Even the teacher couldn’t solve it.
SO. Four hours to produce nothing but anger and a red cross… She must know what it’s like to be Jewish! [Cue Chaser-style, half of audience laugh, other half sigh]
Only kidding. I don’t know how long it took the Jews.
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3 comments:
Is this my call to call you an antisematic? (however you spell it) Sucks to be anywhere near computers, you have my sympathy, and my understanding, ever tried to use a 3D program called Vectorworks? Much the same thing :./
Antisemitic? Can't say I hate Jewish people. I'm just making a joke relating to history. Kinda like Matt Stone, who actually is Jewish (thus creating irony!).
But it wasn't very funny, so I apologise for that aspect.
omg... I hate arcgis too! i just finished in april my research project... it was supposed to be on monkeys and instead I ended up perpetually reading gis directions... at least your school offered a class.
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