thebeckybug

Well, the place is great! I have 2 rooms all to myself. My office, and my bedroom. Along with my own bathroom! It is decorated the way I like it and it is very cozy.
Cozy is so often used to mean “too small” but this is so much bigger yet cozier than anywhere I have ever lived. It is an old, small house about 10 min from campus, but its a straight (and fast shot) now, only if parking were a wonderful story.

Parking sucks, and suddenly, the bus system at school stinks just as bad. The powers that be have recently changed the parking situation at school, and it seems like everyone besides graduate students have to park in the BFE, the boonies, 30 minutes from campus. You have to first find a parking spot, then embed in your memory where you parked in the sea of cars. You hope that … After a very long day and 4-hour long classes of vast information spoken to you (that you’re expected to remember word-for-word in a month or so) … That you remember vaguely where you parked. Then you walk to the bus stop, about 5 minutes away, caring tons of books and plans and other supplies that costed you a fortune. Wait for the bus (used to be 4-8 minutes) now more like 20 minutes, hoping that you don’t sweat too much or that it doesn’t rain. Once the bus finally comes, you have to gather your junk, cram onto the bus like sardines and ride 15-20 minutes (of crappy roads + crappy driving + stinky people + gripping on the to the railing trying not to fall into the stinky people standing next to you) t the general side of campus that you want to get off at. Then after you walk to class, and hopefully survive that, you have to do it all in reverse and hope that your classes are within the general proximity of each other.
college really isn’t that bad, but crappy parking situation can make it that way.

I also have beef about the fact that I don’t get Monday off for Labor day. You would think that a nice University like Texas A&M would observe such a holiday … But NO. The community colleges do, the other Texas universities do, but not us.

Also.. Since when were all my professors Liberal? I mean I’m in one of the most conservative colleges in the nation. It really wouldn’t matter to me so much, except that most of my teachers now are bringing it into the classroom. If they were conservative and shoved it down our throats, I would have a problem with that as well. But they just expect that they can tell you whatever they want and they expect you to just nod your head and attach yourself to their beliefs. Don’t try and speak out against them, or you’ll get on their “bad side.” Its enough trying to tiptoe around their unique set of classroom rules and “proper ways to ask question” without trying to dodge the political issues as well. I really do know that most professors are liberal, but it didn’t occur to me until recently, how flaming liberal they are, and the way they want to influence their students to be the same.

Also.. I have a professor who is now gloating that he singlehandedly made the university stop using our social security numbers to identify us, and instead use a University Identification Number (UIN). I have been complaining about the UIN since they introduced it to us. Its just another number that is really long that we have to memorize. We have tons of other numbers and passwords and usernames and emails and course codes and times going through our heads, and then they give us this new 9-digit number that our life and grades and every hope of getting through college depends on. Just when we memorized our social security number, too. Plus, we have to get new student ID cards.

Lets see, I think I’m about out of complaints for now. I have to say that dial-up provided free of charge (besides that fee in the tuition) from the school is actually quite fast, and I don’t mind using it as a backup to my wireless DSL (which -cross your fingers- is supposed to get hooked up this weekend.) So way to go A&M on making something work … Now to work on that football team. (By the way, I don’t care about the football. At all. So don’t argue with me that your school can play the sport better than mine can, because I probably agree with you.)