Large Scale Heating.

Apparently they just switched to natural gas boilers from coal.

So I know for efficiency purposes, large scale heating and cooling makes sense.  But obviously not everyone will be happy with the temperature.  Take for example my dorm.  This entire campus has steam heat (a novel concept for people from California like me).  But because most of the campus is run off one steam plant, it's not just an on/off procedure.  So basically, you don't want to turn on the plant for one cold night, then find out that it's gonna be 70 degrees tomorrow.  So you'd think that December in Kentucky would be cold enough to have the plant running?  Wrong.  For 3 days now, it's been unseasonably warm, and I can't turn the AC on.

People with stupid sleeping habits.

I found this picture humorous.

So as I mentioned before, this week is finals week here at WKU.  And I'm pretty sure I've mentioned how much I hate my roommate before.  Well one of the main reasons that I hate him is because of his sleep patterns, or lack thereof.  I went to bed early last night, around 9:45 (lame, I know), because I had to get up at 6:30 to be ready for my first final.  When did my a**hole of a roommate decide to come back to the room?  3:00am.  And guess what?  When I got back to the room after taking (and acing btw) two finals, he was still asleep.  Thank God I only have 4 days left.

Scheduling classes.

So today I finished organizing my classes for next semester.  It took me 3 hours, 2 pieces of scratch paper, 2 computers with 2 browsers, and a lot of patience.  Somehow I am ending up with less credits than this semester, but more classes.  I don't know why there isn't a system where you just choose the classes you need, and it just fits them all together.  The worst part?  One of my classes has literally 1 spot remaining, and it's the only time I can take it.  Did I mention that I have the second-to-last registration date based on last name and year-standing?  Not to mention that 1 of my classes has to be a bi-term.  Ugh.  This all makes me sick.

People who don't know how to use a toilet. (Update)

Click to enlarge.

Self-explanatory. End of story.  I made the poster on the left, and posted it in my floor's bathroom.  I think it was a good use of my time.

The right is the updated poster.

Fine Friday X: Rain.

Precipitation is a gray area for me.  It can either be something delightful, or it can ruin my day.  Example: my sister and I share a car back home. Said car is extremely temperamental. If it's raining out, the battery shorts out and loses its charge. But then again, I adore the smell of fresh rain on asphalt.  You already know my feelings on more extreme forms of precipitation, but sometimes I just like to look out my window and watch it fall.  Another example: today's forecast for campus? Rain with ice pellets. Not fun, especially when you have long uncovered walks to classes.

Spray tans.

Luckily this doesn't happen much in California, but here in the South/Midwest, there are Oompa Loompas aplenty.  People look at Snooki on TV and think "Wow, I have never seen someone that orange."  I didn't expect to either.  But lo and behold, there are tons of people with the radiant orange glow.  Some of the apartment complexes around campus advertise as one of their top features: tanning salons.  I have seen people's key rings with frequent tanners club cards.  Do people here really not know how to get a real tan?  Suffer for it.  Go out in the cold.

When they clean my dorm's bathrooms.

Another one about my dorm?  Geez Thomas, why don' you just switch dorms?  (I'll save that for a later post)  So it seems like everyday around 1 or 2 o'clock pm, I'm usually in my dorm and I have to go to the bathroom.  But you know what sucks?  They clean every bathroom in the building daily (thank God), starting with the girls floors.  Then they work down from the top to bottom.  When they get to the bottom, they start the guys floors working up.  So as far as I can tell, my floor is the last one to get cleaned.  What time do they end up getting to my floor?  Around 1 or 2 o'clock pm.  Know what else sucks?  If I have to go to the bathroom while they're cleaning them, that's a no.  The people who clean the bathrooms are only women.  So I have to go down either 3 stories to the next guy floor, use the lobby guest bathroom, or venture to the University Center.  Yesterday, it took them 2 hours to clean the bathroom because someone thought it would be funny to throw talcum powder everywhere.  They had to bring in a floor scrubber or something that was ridiculously loud.  I hate this dorm.

People in dorms who can't cook.

Last night, at around 9:30pm, the fire alarm with the creepy voice in my dorm went off.   Now at first we all just thought it was another drill, because when the first drill happened, the top 7 floor's alarms didn't work.  But as we started walking down the 26 flights of stairs, we started to smell smoke.  Around the 21st floor, the smell started to go away.  So we all get to the bottom, and walk the 100 feet away from the building and wait as the 5 firetrucks pull up and the firefighters go in... blah blah blah.  So 30 minutes later, the finally start to let us 850+ residents back in (remember, 4 elevators for 26 floors).  Later, on the class Facebook group, someone reveals that some guy on the 21st floor left his food on the stove, it burned to a crisp, and filled the 21st floor with smoke, thus setting off the alarm.  So the moral of the story is:  If you go to college, get a meal plan so you don't have to cook burn your own food.

People who dress stupidly.

I'm not just talking about the people who don't check the forecast for the day, but the people with their pants on the ground.  This post covers those who wear socks with sandals, basketball sandals, shorts that definitely don't fit their body type, and other hideous wardrobe malfunctions.  I get that some people go for comfort or convenience.  That's why basketball sandal are popular here.  It is a college campus anyway.   But when I fell like not putting on shoes that tie, you know what I do?  Put on Puma El Reys.  They still look classy, but at the same time take no effort to put on.  Wanna know something that is totally inexcusable?  Sweatpants.  They are disgusting, not flattering, ugly, usually bad colors, and make you look like a slob.  What about t-shirts that reach your knees?  Yeah, those are included.  I guess my main concern here is: Do they think they actually look good?

Online math tests.

Not the math testing center, but this is at WKU.

My math class uses this online tool for homework and tests.  It's called MyMathLab.  Now, I'm okay with doing math homework on the internet with my computer.  It's no skin off my back.  Usually it's better, because I'm more likely to have a computer with me than a book, pencil, and paper.  The one problem though is tests and quizzes.  Since they are both administered over the same online tool, you have to take them on your own time.  But you can't just take them in your dorm, because then you could use WolframAlpha for every question.  You have to schedule an appointment at the Math Testing Center.  You know where the testing center is?  The top of the hill.  Furthermore, when you arrive, they wipe the entire memory of your calculator.  I lost my Calc-Art from Sophomore year :( .  Then you go sit in front of a computer in a cubicle while they watch you.  Even worse, the air conditioner in the room is loud and squeaks constantly.

How hard eating healthy in college is.

Except my floor doesn't have a kitchen.

I've been trying to lose weight for the past month, and I've discovered just how difficult that really is when using a meal plan at a school in Kentucky.  Everything, and I mean everything has saturated fats.  I would go out and buy more healthy foods, but I already paid for the meal plan. *excuses*.   I have been forced to eat at Subway every other day and get a sandwich with ham, lettuce, olives, and vinegar.  Not even cheese.  I do however find solace in that since this is a Pepsi school, every soda machine has Diet Mountain Dew (caffeine without sugar).  Luckily, I feel as though I am able to burn off most that I east by walking all the way around campus everyday (2 miles, with a large elevation gain).  Here's the worst part though: both my mother and grandmother have sent care packages to me.  Full of what may you ask?  Food.  Mainly candy and Slim-Jims. Sigh.

So I made a blog

Wellllllllllllllll. This has been a long time coming. I decided to make a blog about all the things that bug me. I am making this post as I walk up the hill at wku. I plan on posting atleast one thing a day, so let me know if I forget.