Monday, September 19, 2011

College Peeves

You know how people have all sorts of pet peeves about life and others and whatnot? Ya, well I have discovered this semester that I really have a number of them about college campuses. Let's begin.



  • PARKING. Oh my to high heavens. Parking seems to be such a huge deal here at my current school. When I lived in Logan I never really had to deal with it because I always would walk or ride the bus to school. Never did I have to deal with crazy insane parking lots on a daily basis. But now I do. Sometimes I really love the fact that I drive to school everyday. It gives me 25 minutes a day where I can just sit and be alone and either drive in the silent, or blast some good tunes, let the wind rip through my hair, or turn on the AC only for me. But then I arrive at school and chaos ensues. I don't understand why people think that parking in such a big deal and why every one is always complaining about it on campus. In the time that it takes for people to drive up and down all the isles of the massive parking lot each day, they could have parked just a little further away and walked to class and been on time. Or they could just be searching for that one close spot so they can be lazy and not have to walk. Or ask every person walking by who is leaving if they are parked close.... JUST GET OUT AND WALK PEOPLE! It is so ridiculous. It really is only a 5-6 minute walk from the outskirts of the parking lot to the library. SO EASY! and you don't have to waste so much gas everyday. 
  • WALKING ON THE RIGHT SIDE. Do we secretly live in England or something? I hate when you are walking up or down the stairs on the RIGHT side and all of a sudden you have to stop because people are coming up or down the stairs on the LEFT side. Common people! If everyone stays to the right then there wouldn't be so many traffic jams in hallways and stairwells. Plus, walking through doors.... You go to the right and I'll go to the right and then no one will have to get hurt. It is so simple. Why can't people just understand that?
  • ROLLER BACKPACKS. Oh the roller backpacks! I surely do understand that they are nice and keep from hurting your back so much, BUT there really is no place for them on a campus of 33,000 students. Especially when you are going to take your sweet ole time walking with it. I mean, some people have places to go, like class! Imagine that. Being at school to go to class. HA! It is so frustrating to get stuck behind someone who has one of these backpacks who rolls it out to the side of them so it is like two or three people walking side by side and makes it impossible to pass them! They just create problems and I really hate getting stuck behind one. 
  • LONG BOARDERS. Darn you crazy long boarders... Now I understand that it is so nice to use your long board at school, especially for those classes that are really far from each other, but if you are going to use it, please use it responsibly. I hate nearly getting run over on a weekly basis, as do so many other people. 
  • TEXT WALKERS. Yes, I am sure we have all done it a time or two in our lives, but those people who are constantly texting while trying to navigate and insane hallway and in order to do both the slow down considerably and then you get stuck behind them when you are running late because there are so many people you can't pass them. It's like texting and driving. It should be illegal. 
  • SEAT TAKERS. I really really hate getting used to a certain seat and always sitting there and then one day you come in to class and some random kid who hasn't been to class in over a week is just sitting there in your seat! Sometimes I just wanna yell, "Hey dude! You're in my seat now beat it!" But I never do. I just cautiously find a new seat for the day hoping not to do the same thing to someone else. Then for the rest of class it's like the first day all over again, trying to get situated with the room and who is around you and everything else. It is such a pain. I chose that seat for a reason you crazy slacker people!
Okay. Now that that is out of my system! Ha. I'm apparently in a bit of a whiny mood today. But being in college brings out random sides of me and random times. And today, I experienced all of these. And on a Monday nonetheless. Oh what a day.