The College Transition ~ Does it Make Sense? ~ Comp131

            While I love to day dream, I am still a very practical person. When evaluating my surrounding some of the questions that tend to be most prominent in my mind are: What purpose is this supposed to serve? Does it accomplish its intent? What are it’s the flaws? And most importantly. Does it make sense? I am still in the process of adjusting to my new living arrangements here on campus, but I have found some things that, to me, just don’t make sense.

            Example 1 No. The first floor of my residence hall is class rooms, which is fine but it means every one living here either lives on the second or third floor. There are three stair cases in this building and one elevator. The staircases are on either end and one is kind of in the middle with the elevator on the other side of kind of in the middle. Which, for this U shaped building would be quite efficient… Would be. Two of the three staircases won’t open from the outside, and the other one and the elevator only open up to the inside of the first floor. So if you are covered in mud because it had been raining, which it has done a surprising amount lately, you still half to come in the building instead of being able to take you shoes of in the cement stair case. Or if you’re like me and just don’t want to be stared at by a bunch of students in class as you walk by, your just out of luck. To me the amount and placement of the stirs is wonderful but to halve half of them locked to the outside doesn’t make sense.

            Example 2 No. We have this beautiful court yard in the middle of our U shaped building. Most of the time it’s in the sun but in the morning and evenings its quite nice. They even have tables and benches to so you can sit and study/text or talk to your friends. They are even bright colors (I REALLY like colors). The problem is this is Texas and even in the evenings when the sun is not shining right on top of these benches it still could be 90 degrees, so why would you put metal benches out where they will bake in the sun and the heat most of the day. You don’t want to touch those tables 90 percent of the time nun the les sit on a bench, especially in shorts. I appreciate that they thought of that and it is an awesome idea but metal? It just doesn’t make sense to me.