Thursday, February 28

Residential Life Assessment Forms

They asked me if I had any comments or suggestions at the end of the mandatory questionnaire. I did:

You know when you're in you dorm room and you really have to pee, but you just lie in bed wishing the need would go away but it doesn't so after 15 minutes of tossing and turning you decided to roll out of bed and you're so tired you almost kill yourself tripping over your backpack and your roommate's chair comes over and punches you in the gut, thanks a lot for that, and finally you make it to your door and you're like, "Finally" and all you're thinking about is bed and perhaps the possibility of running into that mystery person from down the hall that's been living there for two months but you still don't know their name, and then you open the door and you get snowblinded for like a minute, just totally burnt out through the eyeballs by this beam of blinding light, and it's just about the most uncomfortable experience of your life, so uncomfortable in fact that you contemplate getting to the bathroom peeing in the dark but you're so tired that you're afraid you might miss so you turn on the light there, but it isn't nearly as bad as outside in the hall, and then you have to go back out in the hall and do it all over again, and when you finally get back in bed it's monstrously difficult to fall asleep again but you eventually do, mostly because you're all worn out from the trauma, and the next morning you're a total douche to your roommate and you get into a silent argument and don't speak for 24 hours, all because you're irritable from lack of sleep, and while the roommate's silence is uncomfortable, the eye pain caused by those hallway lights is much more so.

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