It wasn't until I got to college that I started to believe how bad living conditions can be for students, and with the immense amount of tuition my family and I will be paying .. I think the living conditions should be more than desirable.
I walk on top of the dirty carpets in my residence hall every day, I look at all the stains and the crumbs and wonder how many classes of students walked on top of them and how long it is has been since they have been deep cleaned.
Every Monday I see them cleaned - well, vacuumed - but I really wish I could see them scrubbed.
Some say I'm feeding into my OCD tendencies when I think these things, and while that is probably true, shouldn't I at least have a clean residence hall when I'm paying so much money to live here?
The elevators are nasty. They look like they haven't been wiped down in forever. The tiles of the floor are black and have a chalky residue when you step on them.
One day I saw someone spill their spaghetti on the elevator door and the sauce that was dripping down the door wasn't cleaned up for a week.
The amount of Juul pods that students throw into the lights in the elevator grow every day. While it is entertaining to watch the number of pods grow every day and think about the nicotine addiction that plagues my generation, it is also pretty gross.
College has made me clean my entire apartment weekly. I have to scrub everything - from door handles, light switches, even to the floor, I can't stand feeling grimy in the place that I'm supposed to call home.
The water temperature and pressure fluctuates, I remember at the beginning of the spring semester after winter break concluded my friends and I were furious because we hadn't had hot water in our showers in weeks. I try not to view this as a first class problem, but again, this isn't about living conditions at the end of the day, it's about paying thousands of dollars to live in shit.
The study lounges in the residence halls are a mess. The carpets are dirty (who's surprised), the couches are old and so small you can barely fit on them, and the tables are cut up and have years worth of paint from art students working on them. The couches are ripped up half of the time, and it just seems all too run down.
With the amount of money every student is paying to live in these facilities, why haven't things changed? Why isn't new furniture put into the lounges and dorms? Where is all of our money going?
However, this isn't the same for just my residence hall. I've been in others - the honors dormitory for example - and they're just as bad. Water damage breaks the carpets and makes them rise off the floor, they're not glued down or repaired, they stay that way.
Students pay so much for housing already, the living conditions should be phenomenal. The only dorm nobody really has complaints about is the luxury apartment building that is almost $12-$14k an academic year.
I don't think I, and other students, are asking too much to have adequate living conditions.
Not to mention how much money goes into student-athlete facilities and their state of the art lounges, while the students who work hard to be at school and have no other choice but to live in dorms don't get a great deal.
Dorm life is the issue - the school facilities, classrooms, workplaces, are all well kept, tidy, and clean. I've never encountered any issue with the cleanliness of my University other than in dormitories.
I'm not asking for change, I'm not asking to be living first class, I'm writing to raise awareness on behalf of all students that have had complaints about dorm life.
15 Totally Creepy things Girls Do When They're Totally Obsessed With Their Crush
Honestly we could work for the FBI.
Ladies, we've all been there a time or two, whether we were stalking guy we liked or stalking a guy for a friend. That's just what girls do, we low-key stalk guys. It's in our DNA — sugar, spice, and stalking. We are practically the FBI in training, so here are 15 creepy things all girls do when stalking a boy.
1. Make a fake profile and add him on all his social media.
You use a common name and a some random picture of a group of girls that you found on Tumblr for the profile picture.
2. Go through his following/followers and stalk their pages.
If they aren't private its fair game to see what he's commented on or liked, if they're private...well wait for the next point.
3. Have their friends follow the girls that are active on his profiles.
By active, I mean girls that are tagged in his pictures, girls that tag him in things, girls that comment on his posts, and girls that he's friends with.
4. Check to see who's pictures he's been liking and commenting on.
Instagram lets you see what your friends have liked, and you can go through peoples twitter likes.
5. Check his following/followers daily.
You have got to see if more girls have followed him or if he followed more girls.
6. Make fake Tinder profile to see if he's on there.
You can adjust the age and distance to help you find him faster.
7. Search his name on a people search website.
I'm not going to tell the name of the website I use, but they're out there and they work. They work so much that they tell you their address and any previous addresses they've lived at, family members, and any phone numbers that have been connected to them.
8. Drive by their house.
I mean you have their address so why not right? You get a friend and you do it either in the middle of the day or in the middle of the night, there's a less chance of being caught.
9. Call the numbers that the website said were connected to him.
Obviously use *67 and block your number.
10. Stalk his family members social media profiles.
You can learn a lot from what their family decides to share with the world, like I don't know, maybe that their church also does mass in Portuguese ;) and where their family members work.
11. Look up his house on Zillow.
Even if it's not for sale it'll come up, and you'll learn when it was last sold, for how much, how many rooms there are, if they have central air, heat and blah blah blah. But that might not give you 100 percent of the truth, it says my house is one floor when it's two plus a finished basement.
12. Check his Snapchat location.
Obviously on a fake Snapchat, and if he's at the club, girl you can show up looking hot.
13. Go to his job, or drive by it to see if he's there.
Depending on where he works you can go in. He works at the gym, boom get a membership. He has an office job, you can always drive by. Also, sidenote, you should know where he works because it's probably on his Facebook and Tinder.
14. Follow his friends on social media.
His friends will most likely post something like Instagram pictures or Snapchats of what they were doing.
15. Screenshot everything for the group chat.
Every girl has a group chat with a few close friends and of course you got them involved in your stalking, so you all have to discuss what you found out and what you think it means.