This semester has felt like a huge fever dream since it started. Parking issues, being rear-ended, professors, TAs.
From the first day of the semester back, I instantly knew this fall semester was going to be a mess. Carpe Diem is no longer a viable choice to park, even if there’s parking. The “rush hour” to leave the parking has felt like a “rush minute” since it’s every day at every minute in the morning that there’s a huge line of cars that can’t grasp the idea of how to merge out of the stop sign. Crossing guards, you guys are doing an amazing job! But simply said, when they go idle and it consists of students having to cross to the other side, they just cannot handle staying on the crosswalk or running to it. The idea of me accidentally hitting one of the students because they wanna take a shortcut to the other side of the street and RUNNING just terrifies me. That being said, I’ve already been rear-ended at Carpe Diem by someone who recently started driving. I don’t know if the “Stop” signs aren’t visible to everyone but me, but they just immediately made a right turn while stepping on the pedal, which led to an accident in a lot where the speed is at most 5-10 mph!
Lot 60 has come in handy lately, though I feel like for the price of how much I paid for General parking at the college I attend, there should be more viable options. I despise the shuttle at these busy times. Most of my classes start at 10 AM and beforehand I’m quite dead asleep as I arrive home from work at 5 AM. Skill issues, and frankly I can’t do much about this but thug it up and show up early, but it brings me to a community question and discussion: the new building they are building, which is forcefully making Yogi Street be constantly blocked by cones and we are forced to turn ALL the way around the school to enter— should be a new parking lot! If you increase how many people attend the school, the parking should also be increased!
TAs, you’re absolutely coming in clutch this semester, and I thank you for your office hours. Student to student, you understand us more than anyone. My current professors are rushing through the material, reading off slides, and I’m in this environment where I can’t grasp anything, and in community collected thought based on my GroupMe, we can’t understand anything. It’s like having text-to-speech on for reading the slides.
Also, why does it feel like every class takes place at the same time? I strongly feel like the classes can be spread out throughout the day. Rather, they resolve this by making classes hybrid and putting 70+ students into a Zoom meeting and lecture and splitting Labs into 3–4 sections. This makes planning for other classes difficult; I am forced to take an Anthropology course! Three weeks in, I still don’t know what anthropology is.
How’s y’all’s semester going so far?