2008 Woodie Awards
SRU becoming overcrowded for surroundings
By Mike Goodwin
Rocket Staff Writer
Issue date: 1/27/06 Section: Opinion
I suppose I could make this easier and simply stick to one overall theme per piece given the debacle that was last week. So here's hoping the headline above actually matches my writing this time. Here's a hint; overpopulation.
Being the lazy super-senior that I am (six years and counting. Please refer to the beginning of "Tommy Boy" for further sarcasm), I waited until this past Monday to buy books. Honestly, who wants to stand in a long line to spend that amount of money on an object you may not even need? Basically, the longer I could wait, the easier it was going to be. There were also monetary restraints, but I would have waited a while anyway. Yeah, that's right. I put the hard in hardcore showing up to classes without books. I also put it between Mike's and Lemonade for one tasty treat.
I really don't prefer to get into campus issues because, if you're not aware of the bureaucratic state school system by now, then you need to get with the program. The issues are always the same. I prefer to think of it as the ineffectiveness of all forms of government, including student formed. Everything runs slowly and costly which means the only programs worth doing are financially lucrative in some way. This is perhaps why the construction of the new dorms is ahead of schedule. Fit more people; make more money. I get it. And now so do you.
But for whatever reason, and I'm sure there are a lot of them so bookstore employees need not cry because I do understand your side, the books I needed fairly desperately were, of course, not available--So many emotions and so little space to describe all of it. I do like to give other writers a fair shake here.
I remember around this time four years ago trying to find a way out of the huge holes I had been digging myself for the prior three years. Unfortunately for you, those stories don't fit into columns. They're better left for short stories, novels, scripts, and really terrible emo poetry. I may like Gilmore Girls but I'll happily pass on the Dashboard Confessional. I'll take Sevendust with some Distillers to go please.
Being the lazy super-senior that I am (six years and counting. Please refer to the beginning of "Tommy Boy" for further sarcasm), I waited until this past Monday to buy books. Honestly, who wants to stand in a long line to spend that amount of money on an object you may not even need? Basically, the longer I could wait, the easier it was going to be. There were also monetary restraints, but I would have waited a while anyway. Yeah, that's right. I put the hard in hardcore showing up to classes without books. I also put it between Mike's and Lemonade for one tasty treat.
I really don't prefer to get into campus issues because, if you're not aware of the bureaucratic state school system by now, then you need to get with the program. The issues are always the same. I prefer to think of it as the ineffectiveness of all forms of government, including student formed. Everything runs slowly and costly which means the only programs worth doing are financially lucrative in some way. This is perhaps why the construction of the new dorms is ahead of schedule. Fit more people; make more money. I get it. And now so do you.
But for whatever reason, and I'm sure there are a lot of them so bookstore employees need not cry because I do understand your side, the books I needed fairly desperately were, of course, not available--So many emotions and so little space to describe all of it. I do like to give other writers a fair shake here.
I remember around this time four years ago trying to find a way out of the huge holes I had been digging myself for the prior three years. Unfortunately for you, those stories don't fit into columns. They're better left for short stories, novels, scripts, and really terrible emo poetry. I may like Gilmore Girls but I'll happily pass on the Dashboard Confessional. I'll take Sevendust with some Distillers to go please.
