A good question from someone who is actually doing the assignment in an almost timely manner

Shera-Lea writes:

Hey Ian,
So i am having some problems with my tape recorder thing and i went to seeif i could borrow one from the school, so i could redo my interview. Butwhen i went and asked about it i was told that students couldn't rent themout on our own. I went to the one that is kind of by your office, so i waswondering if i went to the right place or not. I asked the guy but i think iconfused him(apparently i am quite good at that), and now i am confused. Soi was wondering what the procedures were again for renting out equipment?

Okey-dokey. You first need to go to see Chris Reid: He looks like this.:


He's in the NRC wing. Look at this remarkably useless map:



Do you see the crinkly looking building to the left, just off of A-Wing? That's it. Imagine yourself walking from the cafeteria to the registrar's office without going outside. Walk past the labs but, instead of turning left at that slopy corridor where there's always boxes waiting to be recycled, keep going straight, down a rather opulent corridor that looks like money not spent on liberal arts, to the very end (past the unused labs). Turn right (you can't turn left) and keep going through the set of doors that force you to turn right again, then left at the t-junction.

There's the Alexander Graham Bell centre, then the next thing to your left (once you get through a set of doors) is a non-descript looking corridor with three doors off of it. Music will be blaring from the one in front (the one in left will have a nice lady working on a journal, the one at right is a closet.

Knock on the door, say you are my student, and you need equipment.

TADA!

(Here's a deep question: I quote Shera-Lea directly, without changing spelling, etc. I have taken an informal communication to me and recontextualised it into a slightly more formal context. Given our conversations on how we should render speech into something that (a) is respectful of the vernacularity of the speech but (b) is respectful of the presumed intent of the speaker, what should I do with informal text?)