Quote by melmachine18As
for the environment, the campus is miles away from any big shopping center. Walmart, unfortunately, is the closest major
store, which is 14
miles away from my campus. Even with a supermarket about 3 miles away,
you still need a car here. The Sccoot, the bus that comes on my campus,
comes every 2 hours and doesn't run on weekends or at nights. I only
get to go back home once a month which I think is extremely
inconvenient, seeing as how I'm 2 to 3 hours away from home. I would
understand better if I were farther in distance from my house, but I'm
not.
Glad you liked it mel. **Yawns and stretches** Morning - lol. And thanks for expressing your
situation. I can tell you aren't the only one to have this sort of an issue.
I've had a fuss with my bus routes around here too. In order to get from my own home to my school, I would have to
wait half-an-hour to get there. Fair enough. **Nods**
But when I have to go back, I would need to take a bus transfer, and seeing that the city bus route does not
conveniently go two-ways - rather one-way, I would have to wait a full hour in the bus to get from one stop towards my
intended target when it could have taken me like 25 minutes to get to by walking - you know, with all the zig-zagging,
and all - so I tend to get a little peeved off when walking home with heavy books to carry in my bag. Sometimes I would
even have to wait 20 to 25 minutes out in the cold near the bus stop to get into it, and yes, just like yours, our
school bus only becomes available at the week-days and hardly any nights, but what really sucks is that it only gets to
move at certain times.
It starts regularly every hour from 8 to 10, but then past 1 o'clock, the gap widens to 5 o'clock and you have
to wait 4 hours entirely when you just want to go home and relax - so you spend hours in the university getting bored
when you just want to leave, pretty much. It gets so frustrating. I would not want to kill an hour or two everyday just
through transportation but I'm not allowed to live near campus due to the high cost in living there, so I guess I
had to take enough sacrifices as a result indeed.
Quote by melmachine18There
are potential problems with the campus on its own. For instance, we had a blackout recently that lasted 7 hours. This
blackout occurred
at 1:35 at night. The occurrence of the blackout made me upset, and
well, knowing that I have a weak personality, I stormed out the door
complaining. After we were allowed into the buildings again, which was
about 2:30, at 5:15, there were gas fumes in my building. I had to
immediately evacuate the building. That night, I couldn't even get any
sleep. I can't get sleep most nights anyway because of the loud noises
from my dorm, people slamming doors and being loud in the hallways.
Wow - the university I'm in
now is totally the opposite. No one really cares about anyone here - and there's no such thing as a popularity
contest pretty much. Sure, there may be loud mouths at times but not to the poit in slamming doors and the sorts. I like
the serene atmosphere and the behavior they conduct around our school. You easily seem to blend in quite nicely. Problem
- little privacy as a result, however.
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classes become more and more boring as the years progress. I don't really like going to classes everyday. It's
a little bit agonizing to
wake up everyday and have to get to my classes at 9:00. I end up being
drowzy in my classes, and I may go to sleep. Unfortunately, I do have
to take medicine to ease up my asthma, and it sometimes causes my
drowsiness. Hopefully, I can get off this medicine soon because I think
it's slowing me down. I can't think too well these days, my ability to
criticize is low, and I can get mad easily at times. Hopefully, all
that can end.
Sounds rough. Yeah, you are right, as the classes here get increasingly boring over
time. I've developed a way to keep myself away through all those hard long lectures, and sometimes I feel as if I
just want to self-teach myself at home. Some of the classes they have are absolutely ridiculous with terrible professors
through compare.
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for my education, especially with my grades, I'm under pressure with that. I need a GPA of 3.7 in order to get a
full scholarship for the
following year. I want to work at getting that scholarship, but with
the difficult work and the quizzes and exams being thrown at me, I
don't know what to do. So far, my GPA for midterm is 3.3, but it's not
enough. Then again, I think MT is getting in my way often, and I
seriously need to cut down my time here. I have met many members who
are my friends and some who are foes which adds to the amount of
pressure I already have.
lol mel, I understand what you mean now. I'm doing well and pulling a
90.7% average this semester in Japan, and I've cut down some forum time to better improve myself, as well as drop
one or two courses that never interested me in the first place and replace them with ones that do.
MT is so addicting, indeed. lol - As to foes, I totally know what you meant. It's a sad thing because you want to
help the community but people perceive this as some kind of grudge you hold against others and by pointing out your
frustration by reporting at them, they tend to see you as their enemy that way.
I used to be like that when I first came around but I have relaxed ever since and didn't let things get to me.
Sure, I may not be perfect, and maybe I might get a little off-topic with my sensible spam, but I stopped getting
frustrated when they edited out or deleted my posts. I've learned not to question those in authority. It is their
website, and their rules - and the forum is a little flawed and weak at times through its members. The point is this
forum is fine - its some of the members who make it look bad, and its a shame that they would point people who report
things out and drags them down in the meantime.
Maybe I'll tell you this much - rather than get too vocal about it, you should just keep a low profile and perhaps
report it like very few members do here on MT in secret.
That's just my advice. If I rubbed you the wrong way with my comment, I apologize. I know all too well how fragile
people can be... I've seen people like that before.
Quote by melmachineHowever,
a good education is my only ticket to
getting a car, and if I can't get a car, I'm done for.
It would be nice to sleep in a car
for once. lol - To me, I wish I could drive a car but I can't because it costs way too much. Perhaps the next year
around, I'll think about bringing my laptop and sleeping over my friend's house near campus so I don't
have to take a long bus ride to uni. every single time. The traffic gets a little bothersome, so I walk conveniently and
sometimes inconveniently to get there. That's all I have to state here. lol - Take care.
