Allow me the preface this article by stating a few facts about my life at Marquette University. I absolutely love this school and I would not trade the experiences I've had or the friends I've made here for anything. I couldn't possibly picture myself at another school and I am proud to say that I am a Golden Eagle and Marquette is my home. That being said, students at our university are all too familiar with a great number of struggles that are exclusive (for the most part) to Marquette; and so, I've taken the liberty of compiling them, in no particular order, for your reading enjoyment.

1. MU_Wireless

Any Marquette student would be happy to tell you about our less than stellar Wi-Fi service here on campus. This issue isn't simply that it is a very slow service, but also that it just decides to randomly kick users off for no reason. If users don't double check their connections frequently they could end up getting a passive-aggressive text from their mom reminding them to conserve their limited 4G data and use Wi-Fi. Or maybe that's just me.

2. No Football

Marquette University used to be home to an absolutely stellar (for the most part) football team way back in the '50s known as the Golden Avalanche. Any time I hear people talking of ways to improve the university, bringing back football almost always comes up. But hey, our football team has been undefeated since 1960, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.

3. Other people saying, "Oh so you go to, like, some super Catholic priest school, right?"

Here's the thing, Marquette is home to people from all different religious faiths and backgrounds. While faith is a core principle of Marquette, it is not by any means shoved in your face. Marquette is not a Catholic boarding school, it's a Jesuit institution; anyone with access to Wikipedia could see that Jesuits are all about education. People choose this university for a great education, not to become missionaries. I mean, some people might do that, and if that's the case, more power to them.

4. The smells of Milwaukee

I guess this could go for any other Milwaukee school, but given that we're the closest to the Miller complex, I think we may have it the worst. For those of you not privy to what a brewery smells like, it's not good. It's like a wet dog that is wet from rolling around in a sewer that is filled with stale beer; we here at Marquette are greeted by this stench quite often.

5. Waiting for BroYo

For those of you outside the Marquette bubble, BroYo (or the Broken Yolk) is a delicious breakfast dining destination located right here on campus. Students almost exclusively make the pilgrimage to this Mecca of pancakes and omelettes on Saturdays and Sundays leading to some pretty incredible wait times. BroYo, you have the demand, now up the supply; expand, bring in more employees, I don't want to wait an hour and a half for my French toast anymore!

6. Other people saying, "Marquette isn't a party school."

That's just a false statement right there.

7. Walter Schroeder Hall

Schroeder is the beautiful disaster of a residence hall that I am happy to call home. Whether some exceptional individual is taking it upon themselves to open the fire hose pipe and flood five floors of the building, or the elevators are breaking down more often than they actually run, and everything in between, there's never a dull moment in Schroeder.

8. People of Milwaukee

There are some...interesting individuals inhabiting this city. Certain individuals who don't have a speech filter and say some rather interesting things. I think your imagination can fill in the blanks here.

9. The dining halls strictly serve Pepsi products

I'm sorry, but Pepsi is just the worst.

10. Winter weather

So Wisconsin is pretty cold in the winter months to begin with, combine that with freezing gusts and tall buildings creating a wind tunnel and you get a campus where the air hurts your face like an icy dagger on your walk to class.

11. People seriously complaining about Marquette

I wrote this article purely out of fun. Marquette has given me the best experiences of my life and anyone who knocks this place surely doesn't know what they are talking about. For all of it's few and insignificant flaws, Marquette is still the best.