10 Things I Hate About College
I almost don’t even need an introduction here. Yes, I’ve written on this subject a lot. A lot of annoying things happen at college though. And although I’ve gone into some of these things before, I’ve finally decided to compile them into the ultimate list of annoying things that happen in college.
1. People who incessantly hand out fliers for the purposes of advertisement, activism, and general randomness. Listen, I don’t want you to hand me your crappy flier, so stop trying so hard to hand it to me. I’m moving away from you for a reason.
2. People who play the guitar and sing loudly in public areas. The other day I was walking in Red Square (a rather large, open area with a fountain in the middle) and there was a guy playing an acoustic guitar and singing so loudly I could hear it from a distance of 100 yards. Shut up, you aren’t good at singing, so stop doing it so loudly.
3. People who think being random is funny. The other day I was walking through campus and in the middle of a crowded area, a guy had brought a couch from home and placed it in the pathway, and proceeded to sit there and read a book. That’s not funny. It’s not even clever. Go home. We get it, you weren’t given enough attention as a child, and now you attempt to get it from being weird and silly. Well no one likes you.
4. Testing styles that don’t accurately represent what percentage of the material you understand in a course. The other day I got a 50% on my organic chemistry quiz. This is annoying because I probably understood 80% of the material. She just weighted the questions horribly. This is the case with roughly every class in college.
5. People who think that riding skateboards in highly crowded areas is socially acceptable, and even cool. Well, it’s neither of those things.
6. People who don’t take the time to make themselves presentable. You’re going out in public, the least you can do is take a shower and put on some clothes that don’t make you look androgynous.
7. Chemistry
8. A lack of parking or extremely annoying parking regulations which make it nearly impossible to park. There is a striking lack of parking at my college, and it seems like they make it worse every year. This year, they are building a new residence hall in the parking lot of an existing residence hall…but the parking for the existing one wasn’t even sufficient, and now it’s entirely gone. Smart. Build a new building, double your tenants, and remove the parking. And as far as I know, there are no plans for a new parking lot. Once you do find a parking lot with open spaces, you never have the appropriate pass, which means you have to pay. Then you go to pay, and the little kiosk has been out of order for two academic years, and you have to drive all the way back to the other end of the college to get the appropriate parking pass. It’s almost like they don’t want you to come to school.
9. People who smoke. Smoking used to be cool. Now it just makes people want to punch you in the face, especially when you do it in an area such that your smoke floats into a nearby building that I’m currently in.
10. The fact that something is always under construction. Refer to #8.