Wow - that was EASILY the worst meeting I have ever sat through. Apparently, NYU undergrads have become a bunch of sniveling, whiny, incapable idiots in the three months since I graduated from there and became a grad student. Tonight, we had a forum where top people from all areas of NYU, ie emergency planning, security, transportation, building, sustainability, residential education, etc., came to talk to us/be an open area to voice your concerns in these general areas/ask questions. Sounds pretty cool, right? Many props to Ben for organizing it.
Here are some of the VERY IMPORTANT issues some people spoke on the mic about:
- "My dorm (located ABOUT 5 blocks above the library, IF that) should be put on one of the bus routes. It's so far. It's getting cold out, and when I leave the library, I'm afraid to walk home, and the campus night van takes so long to get there"
- "How come I as a CAS (arts and sciences) student can't swipe myself through and have access to a study lounge labeled STERN (business school) GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY?"
- "Doing laundry at my dorm is $1.75 a load, and a $1.75 to dry, so I take my laundry to this building because it's 25 cents cheaper. And like, the dryer is an extra 15 minutes. Can you guys fix that? I mean, especially when I was my towels... if I dry them they don't dry all the way, and then they get moldy and I have to throw them out and get new towels. And then if I put them on for a second cycle, they become like, overheated. Plus like, it's getting cold out, so I won't want to carry my laundry bag all that way (these buildings are about half a block apart)..."
- "Can you show me a graph of your busiest call times to campus transportation?"
On the flip side, a few good points WERE raised. Like, maybe getting a change machine put into the dorm that ONLY accepts quarters in the laundry machines, but it's 2 dollars per thing, so to do 2 loads of laundry and dry them = 32 quarters, which most of us don't just have lying around... that was fair.
And the girl requesting that there be a mandatory 'the bus MUST wait at the curb for 3 minutes before driving away thing' for people who are on the busy elevator but otherwise would have made it, that was fine.
But otherwise...holy shit. Just...I'm still laughing at the towel girl. I can't help it.
On a completely unrelated note, I was just thinking about how when we are growing up, they teach you about a/an. And how the rule is ' you use 'an' if you're putting it in front of a word that starts with a vowel'. But then you can say 'a unique thing about NYU undergrads is that they've all lost their brains'...and its A and Unique... so there goes a sacred convention of English.
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