Word on the street is that Engineering Computing Services is looking to take over all computer related facilities in Learned Hall. This is decidedly bad news for TOG, being as how they would basically be annexing my job. It's also not likely in the event that they take it all over, that I would be able to work for them in any capacity.

It's also a bad idea from an educational point of view. Three quarters of what I do is dealing with other Aerospace Students and the special computer needs they have. I have class with all the professors and students, and actually deal with their assorted electronic equipment needs on a daily basis. Our emergency-fix response time is about as long as it takes me to walk from my office to theirs. All of this will go away if ECS takes the reigns.

This would also topple my carefully stacked castle of cards. No Job means no money, no money means no tuition, no tuition means TOG abandons his life-long dream of an aerospace career before it even begins. Any hostile takeover would probably be completed over the summer. Financially, this would leave me one semester’s tuition, room and board short of graduation. More will surely come later, as they are going to announce their "secret" on Friday. We'll see.