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I used to had free printing access until I was finished my studies

I'd have free printing if I could remember my passwords! But I should be finished too.

You are soo lucky! I had to pay for most of my printing - but for a couple of years I had friends in the law school and i was able to use their labs and the machine didnt work properly so would take 2 credits whether you were printing 1 page or 25 (or more) so I would print lots of stuff in one go - just copy and pasting stuff into a word document!

That's a smart way to do it Smudge!

We get $9 per quarter printing money, and it takes about 5 cents to print 1 page. This is my 5th quarter in college and I have never come close to running out, but this quarter I might since I print off notes for 2 of my classes for each chapter or class!

We used to have unlimited, and now we have 400 pages a semester (which is good if you're a normal student, however when your a double major history and literature... that's barely enough sometimes!)... To think I complained about 400 page limits when I read what you have had!

Thankfully, this semester was low-key on the papers, so I printed off a lot of camp stuff last week.

At my college where I finished my studies, we had unlimited printing, the univeristy was thinking about putting limits, but decided against it, because some classes or majors had alot of material online or things we needed to print off. For example for one of my classes, we had no regular textbook, and our professor had our reading materials online and some weeks I would print off 125 pages or more. The school was complaining that some student organizations were printing off 25 pages for an adgena. Heck some people in the music dept. printed off like 500 pages of stuff at one time. When I was in a student orgainazation I printed off like 275 pages of stuff at once so we didnt have to pay the copy center anything. That was easy when the res hall who has a 24 hour computer lab has no overnight lab assistants

So today I discovered 2 more, however I only remember one right now!

...when you use "deer ears" to hear what a group of kids on the playground at the school you work at are saying to judge whether they need interference or not!

You know you are a Camp counselor for life when you:

want to sign your contract for next year on the last day of camp for this year

when you fill out next years application the day it comes out

when you start packing the day you come back home from camp this year

ok, so this one kind of goes with this thread, but I haven't spent more than 3 minutes outside at night or in the woods for like 2 weeks, and yet I managed to get a bug bite! (I also don't have a pet here so it's not a flea bite!)

When friends send you virtual birthday cake from halfway across the world.

When you are stood in the kitchen cooking sausages and sing "i'm gonna build my castle on the nile so I can live in elegant style..." and doing all the actions!

When you learn sign language through camp songs

when you proceed to discuss the yumminess of the flavor of virtual birthday cake!

When you are driving and still doing the motions to the songs

WHen you have contributed to making this thread 74 pages long!

When you buy things this time of year just because you cant live without it at camp

when you buy things even when it's your last $15 and your paycheck is 4 days away with the excuse...I'm going to need this at camp

When you arent going to be back at camp for a couple of years and yet you are about to start saving up for a nice new warm, goose down, sleeping bag!

when you pick a day to go "camp shopping" at your local Target so you dont do it a day before you leave

When your family sends you money for your birthday and tells you to buy yourself something nice you think about how much bug spray and sunscreen you can buy.

What little money I got today went into my new sleeping bag fund!

When you get money you think of what you can use that money for at camp such as day off activities or personal items

When you see Where the Wild Things Are in Asda and just have to buy it cos it reminds you of camp!

When you get excited when your camp packet came in and now you know what you need to buy for camp and I can finally make an appoinment for my physcial.

when you get into your car and it is really hot- yet you don't turn on the A/C to condition yourself for the summer.

That is so true.... I tend to do that myself so I can be prepared for most camp buildings to be without Air. At my last camp, staff would fight over who would take a sick/injured camper to the nurse just to be in the air conditioning for a little while

Anyway-- you know you are a counselor when you get your welcome packet in and it is the highlight of your week even though it involved alot of reading and forms to fill out

when you get nalgenes, a-shirts, and other camp stuff for birthdays and christmas!

When you get camp stuff for holidays instead of stuff you need at home