Stevenson is a really nice school. But every school has those quirks that every student experiences and complains about. We bond over these experiences, laugh about them while they happen. Here's 22 of them that everyone knows about put into words.

1. Spending all of your flex dollars in two weeks. We’ve all done it. You realize that Dunkin' Donuts and Edo Mae Sushi take flex, and suddenly it’s week two and you’ve spent it all on coffee, donuts and sushi. No longer are you able to go get Chinese food or eat tacos because you didn’t realize how short of a distance you flex money goes.
2. Waiting for Rockland. Either you get there too early, because you’re hungry, or you got there at the exact right time for all of the stations to be out of food. It’ll be a ten minute wait at least for any food to be ready but you’re hungry now. You could go to Pandini’s but you’re already swiped in and that just seems like a waste.
3. Waiting for Pandini’s. Why does it take an hour to get a sandwich from this place? The only way you’re guaranteed food quickly is if you get chicken tenders or a salad. And even then, it may take them a while because everyone else knows this too.
4. Waiting for food… in general. Don’t try and get food on Greenspring campus around lunch or dinner time. You’ll be stuck for hours and probably miss your class. Lines are always ridiculously long, people always take too long, and it’s like they run out of what you want just as you get to the front of the line.
5. Waiting for the shuttles. They say the shuttles leave every half hour. Or was it every hour. Or wait, is it supposed to leave every hour and a half? When the shuttle’s full? When a student needs to get to Owings Mills North or Irvine Nature Center? Who knows, and that’s just from Owings Mills. Greenspring is even worse, where getting on the shuttle is like the Hunger Games. The weakest don’t get a seat.
6. Seeing that your tuition is going to weird things. This year it’s nice green lights on the stadium. Last year it was a revamp to Rockland building with nice slow automatic doors and a giant tv that was supposed to withstand the weather that didn’t… twice. One year it was a horse statue that everyone thinks looks like a zombie or worse. But don’t worry, washer 6 will break down every semester, no matter what.
7. Not being able to go to the gym for various reasons. The gym is too far, it’s too crowded, the person who has you swipe your card in gives you a weird look. You dread the walk back up the hill because you just worked out, why do you need another one? The gym is closed? Why is the gym closed? It’s like noon on a Friday.
8. Loud freshman in the quad. There’s always that freshman that gets drunk on Thursday shouting obscenities in the freshman quad. Or when it snows, they don’t make a snowman, they make the infamous snow penis. Without fail, there will be loud freshman in the quad.
9. Loud drunk kids in the quad. The apartment quad however just has loud drunken kids that like to be as loud as possible. The ones that laugh and shriek like the wind that whips by your window at night just loud enough that it wakes you up because you’re used to the wind now.
10. Trying to find your professor’s office. Is it on Owings Mills? They say it’s in the library but you’ve been on both levels and their name isn’t on any of the doors. Wait, it’s a trek down to a weird house off of the beaten path past the abandoned student garden.
11. Trying to find your class on Greenspring. Knott Hall? Science Center? They’re the same thing minus two rooms in the basement? It says Dawson Center, but the signs say AC. Manuszak Center used to be the Student Union, but how does one get into the Art Wing? There’s a tunnel between Manuszak and Knott Hall? WHERE?!
12. Trying to get to class and it’s snowing. Yeah, we all know this is way too dangerous to attempt. Whether you’re trying to get to Caves and walking down (good luck not falling down), navigating the back roads with your own car (good luck not sliding on ice) or praying for the sweet release that death will be by taking the shuttle to campus.
13. Getting winded walking up the hill. That hill is hard man. It’s steep and long, and I have yet to see someone that doesn’t get winded walking up the long stretch between glorious sushi and your bed. No one realizes it on their tour because they take you up those stairs but that hill is worse.
14. Trying to eat before the football team exits practice. We’ve all done it. You’re walking to Rockland and a sea of black and green is hurdling towards you from the stadium. All 150 football players are about to eat and you know it’ll take Rockland awhile to recover. So you better run, or go to Pandini’s.
15. Trying to get from class to class… when they’re on separate campuses. You have 30 minutes to get from Greenspring to Owings Mills. Both of the classes you’re taking are required for your major. If you’re lucky, one teacher will be understanding and let you leave early or show up late. If you think you can do the 15 minute drive between the two when you’re in a rush, then you’re already late.
16. Trying to park on Greenspring. Those parking spots are made for ants! ANTS! I have a pretty small car and still can’t seem to fit it into the parking spot; even when I park away from people. So how do they expect the students borrowing their parents’ trucks or who have a minivan to park there?
17. Trying to sleep while the quads turn into wind tunnels. The way that the campus is shaped creates this weird phenomenon that sounds like a banshee right outside your window wanting in. Then, it’ll calm down for a moment before starting up again. Good luck trying to sleep.
18. Trying to connect to the wi-fi. They say they fixed the wi-fi. They say they fixed it last year. They say that the Stevenson wi-fi is faster than the Guest. That you’ll have to log in every day to use the Guest wi-fi. If it’s fixed, why can’t anyone use it?
19. Trying to connect to the Ethernet. Fed up with the wi-fi, you move on to plug in your laptop. It tries to connect, but then asks you to login. And login. And login. Frustrated, you rip the cord out of the port and just go to sleep. It’s not like you had an important assignment to do.
20. Trying to get on Blackboard. Blackboard is down. You get an email about it. Then another saying it’s fixed. And yet another to say the program is down yet again. But you have an online quiz due by midnight on Blackboard. It works fine for your professor.
21. Waiting for someone to come get their laundry because there’s only two working washers. You’re forever doing laundry because there is only one working washer. And maybe one working dryer. All of your roommates are also trying to do laundry. The only way to get your laundry done is to wait until the weekend when everyone goes home.
22. Trying to make it to Jazzman’s before it closes. Jazzman’s keeps weird hours; they open at noon on Sunday but close at two on Friday. There’s always a line for smoothies and coffee and it doesn’t seem to move. They also run out of things at weird times.