I came to campus for a few hours yesterday to check up on my status of various things here. Larry was not in and could therefore not introduce me to his contact researching video compression, and I have not yet been approved to purchase a summer membership at the fitness center here. However, I was introduced through a front desk receptionist to Larry's budget supervisor who at least signed me up for a temporary wireless account for the summer and also mentioned the possibility of giving me access to school and department resources. I'm maintaining my optimism there.
Today, circumstances have brought me here to campus a full 2 hours before the library I typically use is open. Thus I have instead found a comfy seat in an otherwise empty food court area of their student HUB in order to see if I can get the wireless to work. Even though the signal is very strong, something keeps happening and I constantly need to reset my adapter or get new IP settings after only a few pages. I'm not doing anything other than Google, Wikipedia, and UW's own website, so I'm not sure why there's such a problem.
I did get wireless working long enough to discover that there doesn't seem to be any way to change my password for my temporary account which is both odd and frustrating. I don't think I can memorize both my 9 digit id and 14 digit assigned password full of random letters, numbers, and punctuation. So now, my options now are to carry this password with me everywhere I go or log my computer in permanently as Neither option is particularly secure which is why this policy by UW is so bizarre.
UPDATE:
The wireless works perfectly inside the undergraduate library. So for now, the problem might just be localized in the HUB.
UPDATE 2:
An e-mail to tech support produced a link to a website where I can change my password.
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