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Amy McCoy
mccoy@oregon.uoregon.edu
If the CC-EMU lab looked exceptionally busy to you last term, you were not hallucinating.
The lab staff recently tracked their winter term traffic and came up with some
interesting statistics:
During the first two months of the year, CC-EMU lab visits totalled 53,383.
This meant that, had they been used equally, each computer would have been in
service 438 times.
In the month of February alone, lab visitors went through 669 reams--or
67 boxes--of paper and printed 334,369 pages on three printers.
According to February records, the busiest time of day proved to be from noon
to 2 p.m., and the busiest day was Wednesday. The next most heavily trafficked
day was Monday, and on every day of the week 10 a.m. to noon was runner-up for
busiest time of day. Tuesday held the record for least busy weekday, and the
lab was always relatively quiet for the first couple of hours after it opened
at 7:30 a.m.
If the past is any measure, you can beat the crowds by studying the usage charts at below and adjusting your visits to the lab accordingly.
