hello all. because i just realized that people still post here, i feel obligated to do the same, and i also need a place to vent besides dave whom i barely get to talk to online about anything besides how being here sucks anymore. because there's too much to say, i'll TRY to be brief so i can get to rewriting my paper (apparently some ucla professors and ta's think 3 pages is too much for a paper, wtf)
1. roommate leaving used pads on the toiled
2. LA water smells like the sewer is backed up
3. Mexican dining hall workers who don't speak any english and only respond with "vegetarian" repeatedly when asked anything about the contents of the food you are given
4. being awakened almost every morning by those awful things known as leafblowers (does no one know how to use a rake or broom around here?)
5. having to step around people powerwashing the floor (because it's ok to not conserve water when it saves a laborer paid for his service from having to use something that maybe scrubs?)
6. dining halls that put de-veganize even plain vegetables by adding margarine to them
7. "like...like...like..." times infinity
8. roommate littering bras, dirty socks, and any other form of apparel on the floor
9. rommate piling up the trash as high as she can when she knows i will have to take it out next
10. rude airport employees (i've observed that it is almost always the black women in my own experience)
11. rude lazy inconsiderate student food service employees who draw faces on their sanitary gloves on the job
12. the asian woman who works at Rendezvous, wipes her nose on her gloves, and who withheld my food from me just to get a laugh out of it
13. mislabeled food claiming that things that are only vegetarian, or not even vegetarian, are vegan
14. history 22 professor who tries to liven up lectures by adding sound effects which only distract, annoy, consume time, and hurt the ears
15. grading system in history 22 which places 30% of total grade purely on participation in discussion (i'm sorry i don't give a shit about history and therefore have trouble learning it, remembering it, and giving my long drawn-out comments about it consistently!)
16. spanish placement test which unfairly judges proficiency through use of random questions and that required me to take another quarter of the subject i already put myself through 3 years of in high school, and will now slow my progression to graduation even more
17. ucla's stupidity in overenrolling new admits my year so that every class i need is in demand over its capacity, causing me to stress over enrollment problems every quarter, postpone requirements, and possibly have to graduate late and/or fill my summers with classes here in which case i may never see dave and my pets more than a couple times for extra months
18. the distance between ucla, often unfeasible by bus, and any animal hospital/organization allowing volunteers/interns in a field i am interested in
19. vet school admissions criteria being different for each of the 27 or 28 schools so that you cannot know what you need without checking each one specifically
20. ge classes are a waste of time, don't you agree?
21. vet school requirements of experience hours for admission
22. price of LA buses
23. lack of punctuality of Flyaway bus to LAX
24. animal organizations back home which necessitate an unbroken commitment of 6 months to a year because although those experiences would be perfect for me and i have somewhat easier access to those areas than i do in LA, i cannot be home for over 3 months and therefore lose out on valuable work
25. people with cars in socal who assume everyone has a car and expect you to be able to go anywhere anytime to meet them, and are unsympathetic to your inability to do that
26. roommate leaving used tissue, trash, scraps of paper, bags, hair accessories, and old food containers all over
27. roommate who doesn't comprehend the fact that a wax cup is unrecyclable, but not that a plastic one is
28. roommate purposely leaving me locked out of the room by not doing anything when i go out at night doing my part by taking out the recycling and forget my key, then knock loudly for a full 5 minutes or more knowing she is awake because she was moving around in an obviously awake manner just seconds earlier
29. ucla's summer enrollment policy stating that if at any time, including far before the start of classes, you withdraw as in drop all classes even if it was only one any time after adding, a $100 processing fee will be charged (because a computer takes $100 worth of time and labor to add a number to a number and remove it again?)
30. people who tell me they love animals and do not want to support their inhumane treatment in labs, factory farms, entertainment, etc. but will disregard any remnant of moral fiber in an instant when tempted with food or another product of these atrocities
31. honey in every piece of wheat bread in the dining halls, so i cannot even have a "vegan"burger
32. dining hall workers who give you attitude when you make a request even though they're supposed to be welcome to them, and we're the ones overpaying them for what they do
33. the school's idea of "vegan options" actually meaning salad of bitter vegetables that are unfresh and unwashed
34. disgusting food and soap traces left on all the "clean" plates, silverware, and cups in the dining halls
35. ucla increasing student fees while decreasing size of drink provided with meal to cope with budget cuts for which the students should not be held responsible
36. roommate turning the a/c down each time she comes in (just because her fat probably insulates her from the chill doesn't mean someone like me is immune to the biting cold in here)
37. a/c that does nothing to increase warmth throughout the room, but only produces 70 degree air in the top 2 feet at the ceiling and 50 degree air at the floor (not it doesn't warm at all because it's broken once again)
38. roommate who must be part vampire who never leaves, always has the light off, sits on her bed reading in the dark, closes the blinds on a sunny day but opens the window on a cold one, and throws off my circadian rhythms by keeping the room looking like a perpetual cave of solitude
39. people who loiter in the halls talking on the phone or to friends loudly and publicly about their relationship issues and hookups
40. parents who will drive 8 hours to visit my uncle, call me when they're here with no prior notification, expect me to drop everything to see them, tell me they'll drive me to shop but then yell at me when i call them back asking about it, act like they want to check out my school but won't get out of bed to say hi to me when i'm home, won't travel anywhere to help me move my stuff and leave me to transport bags that weigh far more than i do, refuse to talk to me when i'm emotional, tell me i can come home anytime and then yell at me when i ask for money for plane tickets, yell at me when i need money for tuition, don't even bother to ask what i might want from home the one time they are down here, and assume that a college student has school on a high school schedule and refuse to hear me when i tell them we don't
41. roommates whose idea of cleaning the floor is dragging their feet along the carpet forming giant balls of hair which they leave on the bathroom floor
42. crappy dorm sink that isn't useful for washing anything without getting water everywhere
43. the bathroom rug which roommate brought in the beginning of the year for us all to use but refuses to wash because she doesn't want to put it in with her clothes, and won't even touch with her hands to take out of the bathroom when it's cleaning day
44. roommate saying stupid things and not possessing common sense, for example the knowledge that a laptop does indeed have a battery
45. the sound no longer works on my laptop except during startup so i cannot watch class podcasts
46. the lame paint job on my laptop scratching off for some unknown reason on all sides
47. archaic southwest counter at LAX that makes you bring your own baggage to the x-ray machine
48. 3 classes sheduling papers due at the worst time in the 2 days following memorial day weekend
49. rude condescending apartment/condo complex owners
50. being stuck with the top bunk without my outlet nearby so i cannot have my computer in bed since it runs out of power quickly
51. roommates who won't allow my bf to visit
52. roommate who has a problem with me using webcam with my bf
53. roommates who always hit the back of my chair and my head when walking by even though they're the ones who moved my desk to this position in the beginning of the year knowing there is little room behind it
54. drunk people coming to the room at night when i'm studying
55. roommates using the microwave and adding to the rotting stench built up in there that no amount of cleaning can eliminate
56. insanely hot dry weather combined with hill after hill to walk up everyday
57. extreme temperature differences between the outside world and my room making the environment very uncomfortable either way
58. the courtyard construction of this dorm that amplifies the sounds of idiots talking endlessly outside
59. gigantic campus that makes a walk from class to class or dorm to counseling take 20 minutes
60. airport shuttle drivers who have no idea what they're doing
ok that's enough for now
