#and the majority are still super pumped and frustrated at the people who are complaining

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[coherently-screaming]

I know Tumblr folks are very understanding and supportive of the WGA strike, which is super refreshing to see as a writer, but I have noticed that understanding absolutely does not translate into real life.

I’ve only talked to maybe ten people about the strike, but most of them have no clue about how terrifying and depressing this all is. Most of them understand after *I* explain it to them, but news outlets are failing to explain why this strike needs to work out for the writers guild and how awful the studios are. Most of them care more about movie and television delays than the effect this is going to have on writers now and in the future.

You want your shows and movies to come out? Okay, but do you want them to have a chance of being good? You want the late night talk shows back? Do you want them to be funny? Do you know anyone with a passion for writing? Do you want them to have a chance of surviving in their chosen career? Then support the WGA and stop complaining.

It’s really frustrating how undervalued writers are, and a lot of the time (I’m part of the problem here I will admit it) they get the most hate when in reality studios and show runners are truly the villains. Shitty shows aren’t always terrible because of bad writing, but because of what studios and show runners block the writers from including. Yet, writers get the hate and are barely making pennies at the same time.

And despite all of this people are still surprised that the WGA strike is lasting so long. It’s not the writers who are being stubborn, it’s the studios. Studios would rather pump garbage through an AI to save dimes and focus on quantity over quality, because that’s what they have decided is in their interest. It’s bullshit. An AI cannot compare to a group of humans, even if those humans are idiots, and with streaming becoming so incredibly popular over cable and satellite, writers, actors, and directors alike need to be properly accommodated for their work in new ways.

Anyway, fuck major studios, fuck capitalism (it’s the root of this issue), and fuck any hope that the people controlling the media could be half decent human beings.

WGA Strong.

[slapegg]

Quick Critique: Guacamelee 2

I highly recommend playing Guacamelee 1 first, which is a-okay because it's one of my favorite PS3 games. The intro to G2 is a bit on the slow side but by the time you hit the first dungeon, things are popping off and the challenge rooms are right up there with the ones from the end of Guac 1. When Guacamlee decides to get difficult, it has an amazing ability to be teeth-grindingly frustrating while making you laugh and have fun at the same time. G1 had hard bonus rooms, but it was a fair hard because you can see what they're going for and what they want you to do, you just need to up your skills and be able to do it. For a game about tight platforming and really impactful upgrade abilities, the first new ability in G2 is pretty bad. It's not fun, it's finicky, and you don't have complete control over it at all times. The best sequences the game has are you expertly stringing together your moves to weave through intricate hazards but the new power is a fling move that's based on your angle away from the grapple point so it feels... physics-y when all your other moves are super tight. How far away you can be from a grapple point to activate the move feels random or unresponsive at the worst of times and it leaves you repeating puzzles because it wouldn't activate at the proper angle and you dropped to your doom or flung yourself too high and into spikes. G2's hardest challenge is a heavily timed segment using the fling move over and over but I died over and over because the character would grapple the air instead of grabbing the grapple point or the grapple point behind me would activate instead of the one I wanted to grab. The entire segment lacked the tension of the original Tule Tree because I felt like I was fighting the game and controls rather than the objective. You can't customize your controls and the default isn't great. Part of the problem is that there are just too many controls and combinations of buttons. You have multiple special moves mapped to the same button, which is fine and works well, but then you have a different state to morph into and that has its own set of special moves, and then there's a second special move button related to wall moves, and changing dimensions on top of that. The controls are a mess. If all they did was cut out the chicken state, I think I'd be cool with it. It was a funny joke in the first game but now that they've tried to turn it into a major gameplay element, it's just more clutter than fun.

The art is a mixed blessing. Drinkbox is up to some sorcery with how amazing they are at applying lighting effects to 2D objects. The game just looks fantastic and awash in colors and sparkles everywhere you look. But that also means a lot of scenes are overloaded with lights and objects fighting for your focus. You'll frequently run into hazards that are hard to pick out or get hit by a projectile that passed behind some effect or decoration and you couldn't see it until it was too late. there will be fights where multiple enemies with different kinds of shields, fire, and explosions or other VFX will all overlap and you lose track of it all and can't see your character. You just kind of button mash and hope you make your way out for a breather.

The new story and characters are good, but they don't have the impact of the original villains. Every member of Calaca's crew was memorable and Calaca himself was a fun really evil villain. In G2, only one member of the bad guy's crew is any fun and Salvador himself barely feels like an entity. You never see him do anything other than posture. For the vast vast majority of the game, your task is to hunt down a dying man. Yeah, he's evil and all but if you just stalled, he'd probably drop dead on his own. Not much a menacing figure. The overall story leans heavy on multiverse shenanigans but they don't have much fun with it. It just leads to lots of Family Guy quality references and doubles down on the goat guy, who continues to be just the worst. They do let you switch costumes practically from the start and you get to play as X'tabay! But her hair is tied up in a bun! BOOO! She has amazing video game hair, let it flow like the majestic waterfall that it is.

As mentioned, Guacamelee 2 is still loaded down with references again, but they're more heavily video gamey than just memes this time so that's... better. In the first ten minutes, they hit you with Limbo to Bad Dudes to Double Dragon to River City Ransom to Bad Dudes AGAIN. It's a really bad first impression ,but it thankfully cools down a little bit after that but there's still a steady stream of it everywhere you go. When you're free of the references, the game is actually very funny so I don't know why they're leaning on these lazy references. Guacamelee has one of the most likable  representations of Satan and there are characters whose whole bit is that they tell terrible skeleton-based puns but those bad puns are funnier than any of the TV and game references crammed in. There's a whole area devoted to mocking the players that complained about the use of memes in the first game but... most of the complaints are legitimate. There were too many memes, they weren't funny, they were outdated by the time most people played the game, and the rest of the writing was better than relying on a Robot Chicken level reference to an Internet picture. None of those complaints are invalid but the game expects you to take the developer's side and think the people telling the company to not use memes are the ones that are wrong and jerks.

The writing feels less like a celebration of Mexican culture than the first game. G1 felt like it was honoring Mexican lore but having some loving fun with it but G2 falls back on stereotypes and tacos a bit too quickly.

I got every Trophy save for two. One requires you to juggle an enemy six times in a row with a specific move, but if you've maxed out all your skills all the enemies die before you get to six hits. The other trophy is for beating the game on hard, but... I don't know if I really want to play through it a second time. Maybe I'll get bored on the weekend and get the Platinum, but Guac 1 left me wanting more and Guac 2 wore out its welcome. I was able to beat it 100% in just under 9 and a half hours. That puts me at number 22 on the Speed Run leaderboards but the game wouldn't let me upload my time. Even though I'm connected to the Internet, it keeps telling me I'm not and prompting me to connect. If the game won't let me upload a score because I don't have PS Plus, that is some serious BS. Every dungeon seemed like you could cut out a third of it and it would be a lot better.

G2 is a good game, but it's not as good as the first one. That's still good praise. Guacamelee 1 is one of the best PS3 games, so for the sequel to be good but not one of the best, they still made a fine game that's worth your time. But where I'd recommend Guacamelee 1 to anybody to show why this is my favorite genre, I'd only recommend Guac 2 to somebody that's already a fan. They succumbed to the pressures of a sequel. Instead of just taking what was great about the first game and just making more of it (which is all I wanted), they added extra features that weren't as refined and the game feels a bit cluttered for it, but then the maps are so much bigger that I was discouraged from doing multiple mid-game clean-ups for chests and upgrades. You can't just make your map bigger without having more fast travel and a better way to track progress. The music is good, but all the best tracks are just remixes of the first game. I regularly listen to G1's soundtrack, but with G2 it's hard to pick out what's new and different. Guac 1 just needed to get rid of the memes, have the final boss fights not be total trash, and improve the late game combat so it wasn't just slapping shields on existing enemies and pumping up their health. For all the areas that G2 could have improved upon the original, they ignored those things and didn't fix the original's main problems.

[cosmosogler]

ohh mannn...

i woke up at 8 this morning and just. couldn’t. i emailed my professor and went back to sleep until 9:10 or so.

still didn’t feel rested or in any sort of good mood but i’d arranged to meet with the e&m tutor at 10:40 so i really, really struggled to get ready on time. i forewent packing a lunch, figuring it was spaghetti day anyway, and that i’d just pick up a smoothie for dinner if i needed it. i was still like 10 minutes late to the meeting. i let her know ahead of time...

actually i’ve met this woman before. she’s very kind. she took a look through my notes. “is this your cat?” she asked when she came across one of the two doodles in there. “i like it.”

“thanks,” i said, kinda miserable. i hate people finding my drawings... especially in class note books when they can see i wasn’t paying much attention to the lecture. next to a jumbi, the only other drawing in there that took more than five seconds, i wrote “stop drawing in class” like that makes it any better for an outside observer.

she gave me a basic physics textbooks to work through examples before class so i can follow the lecture easier using my preferred style of taking in information. learning specific cases to see how the process works and what you use it for, and then generalizing. the professor, aside from being intimidating and thoroughly unpleasant to listen to at this point, likes to work in ONLY general cases and doesn’t always state the purpose of the exercise before jumping right in.

that happened for 45 minutes. it felt good to have a direction to move forward in, but also, terrible? because i felt terrible and interacting with a professor and learning something neat didn’t help.

i went down to the office and tried to talk my classmates into getting krishna lunch but none of them were having it. they had their e&m midterm today... jennica wanted to go, and keegan wanted to go, but then keegan’s practice problem was taking too long so jennica changed her mind. and keegan didn’t want to go with only one person i guess. he said never mind. 

it actually really... felt bad? like my throat hurt from trying not to try the whole way out the building and out to the road. like this one of very few things that i actually find relaxing and enjoyable got taken away. i know they were worried about their test but shouldn’t they know cramming doesn’t really do anything but make you anxious at this point? i dunno. i was super bummed. i had to really pump myself up to even bother with lunch at all.

i didn’t want to go to a very social gathering place to get lunch by myself so i forgot the spaghet this week and instead got a peanut butter smoothie because i like them and they make me feel better. part of my bad mood was due to hunger it seems like. i got a large because i knew that mediums weren’t always quite enough. but i took one sip of the large and immediately was no longer hungry so that was great. i carried it across campus with me to the pharmacy anyway and tried to get something into my stomach, at least, while listening to the beautiful sounds of elo. 

i picked up my meds and that was a bit of money... but they let me get all three of them at once which was actually good. now i don’t have to drop by again next week, which takes like 40 minutes every time i go.

then i ambled over to the group therapy place and i could tell i was gonna be real sick later. but my body had to ache for 80 minutes first. that’s how it goes.

therapy was kinda rough. i felt ill and tired and unfocused. for the first 50 minutes i barely said anything at all. i hopped in eventually saying i couldn’t get anyone to take me seriously. it’s always “you’re so cute” or “so smol” or “precious” or “honey senpai” or “you’re sweet” or “you’re such a straightedge.” 

i mean... these are from people i like. sometimes from people i don’t, but... the majority. i’m older than most people in my peer group and i’m still the “smol” one. 

i really liked peridot in steven universe. but she’s been turned into the butt of the “smol” joke too and that’s upsetting. 

too much to say about that. gotta move on.

we talked about how we all go so fast that we can’t actually process any of our emotions or reactions as we talk about our lives. i proposed that next week we spend the first 45 minutes doing nothing but crying on the floor and then the last 45 minutes actually talking. that got a good laugh out of everyone.

i mentioned it was hard for me to share reactions because i just feel nothing all the time. like my grandma died in january and it didn’t occur to me to cry about it until, like, this saturday. even then it wasn’t sobbing or anything. it was just, “oh. i’m sad now. about that.”

so i said i’d get back to the group leader with my reactions to the group next year.

it’s been... good. to talk to people my own age. who are at the same point, almost, emotionally. people who are grown ass adults and have been grown ass adults for 7+ years and who, despite having serious or absolutely devastating problems, are still doing things about it. because having depression doesn’t mean i am not doing anything about my depression. 

there were weird guys in uniform on campus today. i can’t tell if they are with our Very Special Guest who is speaking tomorrow, or if they are undercover cops. i’m guessing they were not white supremacists because there was more than one not white person with them and they looked like they were not trying to be particularly intimidating. 

gotta keep in mind that this university is spending over half a million dollars on security for this event. like eight of my students have contacted me about being unable to attend class tomorrow because the road they live on got shut down and they can’t leave.

also gotta keep in mind that they denied him entry at first (due to reasonable safety concerns) but then he sued and the state was all, “free speech is Very Important” and made them let him come and also they had to pay for everything except his rental of the building. 

ok yes free speech is very important. but also, not putting your students in danger is very important and they are legally allowed to deny speakers that they think will directly lead to violence happening.

i guess our very special guest could spend all that money he’s not using on security on lawyers instead.

anyway. i walked back to the physics department and i told myself, “i am the- i am great. i’m great at math.” and i kinda laughed at how funny the joke was.

i dunno there’s something a little dissonant about wearing a shirt that says “COOL DUDE” on it and having a low self esteem. 

it’s this one. this is the one. the shirt. this is the shirt. it says cool dude.

look ok i aspire to have half the aggressive self confidence that paps has. that is a trait i admire.

look at those dumb basketball shoulder pads. where did he get those? i love them. look how much fun he’s having.

ok anyway fashion aside. i still felt... weak and drained, when i got back to the department. i had indeed been sick after group adjourned. i had about 5 minutes before class. so i went and grabbed my notebook and sat down for class and said “i’m gonna do great” instead of telling the professor i was too sick for class. 

i tried something new. i tried listening very carefully to the lecture and only taking notes when i wanted to keep track of a definition or a term he was using. since he was mostly talking theory at this point (for once in his life) it was actually easier to follow than normal. I tried to think about what the variables meant. 

i dunno if that’ll help or not.

haha i sent an email in between writing part of this post and i was accidentally capitalizing words there for a few sentences! i had to go back and fix it to look like i’m talking quietly instead of at a normal person volume.

then i festered in the office for a little while before my classmates got out of their exam. suzanne didn’t look so good... even ioannis didn’t finish the last third of the test. basically everyone went home straight away.

EXCEPT. harrison asked why i didn’t go to krishna with him and keegan. i said “what.” 

he said he couldn’t find me so he and keegan went to krishna alone. i told him i’d been looking around for people to go for like 30 minutes before i left and that i otherwise wasn’t around much today. i asked when they went. it was shortly after i left.

so he lied to me. he didn’t even bring it up when he’d been in the office for five minutes after the test. like, “oh, hey, i changed my mind, sorry we didn’t catch you on the way out.” 

they went and did this thing i love to do with my friends without me specifically after telling me they weren’t going to do it.

i’m not mad at harrison. i didn’t even see him or know he was around, his office door had been closed. it’s never closed when he’s in. 

but like... i did tell him i was actually mad for real. i didn’t really have any way to express that though so i just said that was upsetting and then he went home. 

i don’t know what to do about that. i don’t want to be passive aggressive but if i bring it up tomorrow it’s just gonna be like, it’s not a big deal. 

it shouldn’t matter. i am capable of having a good time by myself. it’s just, it’s not what i was expecting.

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA my face was healing so good and i accidentally scratched it and now it’s bleeding a little. i don’t know how. the scab wasn’t even there any more. ugh.

i bummed around in the office for just a little while longer, trying to set up a work dropbox so my classmates and i can quickly share notes from class. i fiddled with it until i got frustrated and tired. taylor was around so i was talking to him about how i didn’t really appreciate harrison saying stuff like “ok from now on i’m only going to believe half the things you say.” and then i got onto my health, i think, which prompted me to start talking about my heart. and then that got me onto my christian school experience so i complained about being bullied by my classmates, my classmates’ parents, and my teachers for a little bit. 

rebika came in and after a minute she said something like “i don’t like to believe what you say either, i don’t know how to react.”

and i said “yeah, bad things don’t actually happen, since you don’t want them to. it’s ok.”

she said “it’s just awkward.”

i said “that’s fair, if someone started saying the stuff i say to me i wouldn’t know how to react either.”

i biked home and i had so much trouble picking up any speed at all (even downhill, somehow) that it was kind of miserable even though the weather was nice. i could not get my legs to move any faster.

i thought about what i said. people don’t want to believe that bad things happen for real. i find myself thinking that way sometimes too. about other people. about myself. but bad things are real. they happen to real people. they could happen to me. they could happen to you. there’s horrible things happening right now to real people. statistically one unbelievably bad thing will probably happen to everyone.

i’ve just had a lot of them. so it’s hard for young people to get that i guess.

i made chili dogs for dinner because one of the internet people i talk to yesterday was talking about it and i got hungry for them. it was so good. i was up to my wrists in chili. i looked like a toddler who didn’t want to eat their baby food. i had to really struggle to, like, pick up my cup of water to take a drink with my chili hands. i don’t like touching things with gunk on my hands. or having gunk on my hands really. 

i washed everything afterward and actually put my god dang dishes in the dishwasher for the first time in like four days. and i RAN A CYCLE!!! HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!! CLEANING MONSTER

i thought about making muffins for my classmates tomorrow but, upon considering that i am very depressed right now, and also that half my classmates aren’t going to want/be able to come to campus, i have decided it might be better to save them for monday instead. thursday night i’ll be too busy studying for quantum, hopefully.

i gave jennica my toolbox since her bike fell apart and i fiddled with the dropbox for a long time. but i didn’t do any studying or grading because i’m too cool for important things like preparing for a very difficult exam i have to take in two days that i don’t like and don’t want to think about.

i uploaded all my notes so far to the database but i was too tired to label all of them so i did nothing instead.

you know. i guess there’s kind of a utility in doing nothing. i don’t know if that’s a good thing or an excuse or what. but. sometimes i feel like any activity at all can lead very quickly and very unexpectedly into “self harm” or worse territory. so i elect instead to do absolutely nothing for long periods of time. i did force myself to at least train one of my pokemon while i, i don’t know, i was barely watching the youtube videos at all. i just wanted to feel like i was accomplishing something by taking a bunch of stuff off my bookmarks because i’d technically looked at it like i wanted when i’d bookmarked it.

i know it’s not really accomplishing anything. but at least there’s less bs cluttering up my bookmarks bar so now it’s easier to see the stuff i actually did want to look at later. like kinesthetic learning strategies. 

at least my chili was really good... 

oh i figured out a way to get snoopy to stop yowling all night. besides when she hurts herself i guess. i find knots of tangled fur ripped out on the couch and the ottoman and stuff sometimes. and i find her claws on the ground in the morning sometimes. i think she splits them on accident. not sure what’s making them so brittle though.

but anyway just saying “hey snoopy” seems to calm her down a little bit. this morning while i was sleeping in i did get her to actually lay on my bed with me for a while and she seemed to like that until i shifted my weight and bumped her with my foot. but she wasn’t “MAHHHH”ing for that period of time so it’s a success!!!!

i think she’s got mats on her stomach but she won’t let me touch any of that so i can’t really try to brush anything and she just accidentally tears it out sometimes while grooming i guess. she’s only barely started letting me brush around her hips. i’m thinking about taking her somewhere to get her claws and fur trimmed and maybe her teeth cleaned and stuff but i don’t know how much it’ll cost and i don’t know who’s got people who can do cats around here. petco didn’t when we first went...

tomorrow i’m gonna go to a “wellness coaching” event that the counseling center is hosting. even if i don’t learn anything new i need to hear this stuff over and over again or i’m gonna forget it. and maybe getting some professionally-sanctioned attention will help me feel a little better by itself.

i’m kinda bummed because i had time to play with snoopy today, since i got home right before 6, but i just didn’t have any energy i guess. 

energy doesn’t seem like the right word to be using. because physically i could technically do it. there’s no sleepiness or anything keeping me from doing it. but if it occurs to me that i could be doing it my brain gives a hard “no.” kinda like with my homework situation!!!!!!!!!!!!

emotional energy? willpower? does it take willpower to NOT do things, like i kinda talked about earlier? what am i spending all my energy on?

most days i think i would explain my energy as being allocated “80% toward not killing myself, 10% toward maintaining myself/my environment, and 10% toward school because that’s all i have left.” but not killing myself isn’t necessarily an active thing i have to do at all times so maybe it’s not taking up all that mental space. i just don’t know. i mean, of course, sometimes it is, but, not always.

it’s 11:20 which is 35 minutes after my “STOP WRITING AND GO TO BED, ASSHOLE” time so i’m going to try to rest i guess. i don’t know if i can teach for four hours straight tomorrow. it’ll be a reduced class size but i still put all my attention on my students for that period of time. maybe i can kinda get them to finish early so i can go to the bathroom before the second two hours at least. guess i’ll just live with it.

[susanlongman1995]

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Residence Halls… Two Different Worlds

Prologue

It was the first week of our freshman year of college. New faces, from small towns that we have never heard of up to far away states, filled the campus. It was only normal to feel so lost. Some of us had a roommate we knew prior to college and just our belongings. Finally, we were on our own after all of these years. It was hard knowing what to do. Who should we talk to? Who wants to talk to us? All of these questions remained unanswered, until we walked into our residence halls. “Welcome to Kutztown University! We are happy to have you here,” exclaimed our building directors.

    Right from there on out, everyone was so friendly. We were about to spend two semesters with these people, so why not make the best out of it? It was definitely hard from the start but it became easy to make things work. However, two questions came to all of our minds. Was everyone having a welcoming experience or a horrible one? Were all the halls similar? It was nearly impossible to know everyone's answer to those two questions, but that didn’t stop us from wondering.

Within the next few months, everyone started hearing stories. Whether they were good or bad, they were very interesting due to how different they were. We learned that the residence halls on campus are not comparable. They range from very strict, no tolerance rules to basically a free for all. All of us could name a handful of things that are drastically different in each hall. Living on campus in these buildings is an experience like no other. We will be diving into the good, the bad, and the ugly of these halls. It consists of four acts: Act I, “ Johnson’s Cup is Half Empty,” Act II “ Bonner’s Hoodrat Shenanigans,” Act III “One Big Family,” and Act IV “ Behind the Doors of Berks.”

Act II: Johnson’s cup is half empty

We all have expectations going into things that are unknown to us. I had expectations for my first day of middle school, high school, and even college. None of those Expectations being met. I thought of every college movie I had seen up to that point: Pitch Perfect, American Pie, Monster’s University to name a few. I watched hundreds of Youtube videos about what to Pack, and tips on having a successful year. Those movies and videos could not prepare me enough for what I was about to experience.

It was a pleasant surprise arriving to Kutztown on Move in Day. I had not toured Kutztown, nor was I planning on going to College. I still don’t think that the College life is for me. But here I am. When I arrived I was very anxious for I had not met my roommate yet , did not know what my dorm was going to look like, and I had no idea on where the fuck I was. I had no idea of all of the endless possibilities that laid ahead of me. My Parents and I had drove around for 20 minutes ,  before the people at the Fairgrounds assigned us to move into Johnson. I was looking left and right out the window looking for Johnson Hall, my future home. I had seen photos from Move In Day 2017 online, and it looked super chaotic. That’s when I knew I was where I was supposed to be. The DMZ filled with more cars than a car show, new student t shirts everywhere, and numerous camping sites with various boxes, tv’s, and bed supplies stationed everywhere.

We pulled up to Johnson hall, and it had looked like every other hall on the outside. I thought all of the dorms were the same. I was eager to put everything in my room and have the party start. I checked in and all of the staff seemed overly excited to have us move in. I was Hype, and this was just the beginning. I walk into room 124 and I notice how small it is. I had looked up photos of Johnson Hall online and it did not look half bad. I was semi frustrated because my roommate got there before I did and I could not choose what bed I wanted or what desk space felt right to me. I just went with it. I did not care that much, because I was just excited to get things rolling. My parents helped me move in, and left shortly after we said our goodbyes. Freedom.

Francesca ( my roommate) and I went to South because we were overly hungry. We got to south and met so many different people from all over campus. I swear the first question everyone asks you when they first meet you is “Where do you live?”. We responded with Johnson, and people looked at us with disbelief and started to pity us. The amount of people who said “Oh i'm so sorry that you have to live there” was repetitive and I felt like I already knew people's response who I had just met when we told them we lived at Johnson. Soon we felt awful that we lived there and it was only the first day. We were told how awful the dorm is and how there are so many better halls before we could even sleep there and find out for ourselves. It definitely set negative presumptions for the year.

We quickly unfolded the information that was ingrained in our heads ourselves within a weeks time. To say I did not have fun my first weeks here, I would be lying to you. It was a blast. All of the things wrong with Johnson didn't feel as bad then, because everything else was just so new. I was hardly in Johnson due to how stinking hot it was. It’s when things settled down that I noticed how unacceptable the hall was and still is.

There are lots of things that could be changed to make the hall a better and safer environment. No one respects the hall. The amount of unnecessary chaos that goes on is ridiculous. There are things that happen in every hall, such as loud music playing, the stinge of weed roaming the rooms and halls, and dealing with drunk, obnoxious people. But Johnson Hall is a disgrace to humanity. The amount of destruction to the hall is a bit over the charts.

The boy floors seeming to be the worse. There are numerous videos going around snapchat of the shenanigans that take place. Teenagers creating walls in the ceiling by kicking soccer balls as hard as they can. Longboarders running into walls, or mlb wanna bes throwing baseballs at exit signs as hard as they can in hopes of demolishing it. It’s like one big competition on who can be the biggest idiot. Quite annoying for a student who just wants to study, and get what she needs done… done. There is no respect for the hall. For the hall is already a disgrace and disgusting. It’s already a piece of shit, so that's how people treat it. I semi understand on where these boys thoughts are coming from, but I don’t understand why they are being disrespectful.    

I Interviewed a CA, her name is Maria, she overlooks the first half of the first floor. I asked her what her thoughts are on Johnson Hall, and how her fellow co-workers felt about the chaotic hall. Here’s what she said. I asked her what her Thoughts on Johnson are… here’s what she had to say “Overall this hall is pretty standard, I feel like there are better halls that KU has to offer, that are renovated & not as dirty” “The personality here is awesome though & so much energy” when I asked what her Coworkers Thoughts were , here’s what she said. “My coworkers & I love working here, it’s a pretty easy job. The DR’s are really laid back , and as long as everyone’s acting reasonable , then I’m not worried”. The last question I asked her then was Complaints she hears about Johnson.. this was the most interesting to me & I see first hand where she’s coming from. “Well the amount of complaints that I hear are many. I always hear people complaining about something or another. The bathrooms being dirty is something I hear often, & I get frequent complaints about the smell of weed & how loud everything else. I feel like Johnson is fun overall & we make the most of it” Well, I couldn’t agree with Maria more … We got to make the most of it , or else we’ll get so caught up on how bad it is!  Through living here I have been very angered at numerous situations, but at the end of the day, it is Johnson Hall & it puts me in for a crazy experience every single day.

-Corrina Smith

Act II.  Bonner’s hoodrat Shenanigans

When I was younger, I pictured college to be all about studying, playing beer pong, joining sororities and making best friends for life. I also thought I would be meeting cute boys and all the fun of decorating dorms and much more! In high school, I would watch movies like Legally Blonde and I promised myself my college years will be similar to Elle Woods. I made sure I was prepared for all of the fun activities college was pumping me up for. I had an idea of where I was going and what I was going to do, but as I grew older I realized things don’t always go as planned. For example, I was set on going to Penn State University for Nursing but little did I know, my senior year I applied to Kutztown University as an undeclared major because I truly did not know what I wanted in the future and applying to Kutztown was the best decision I had to make.

That summer, I had to be prepared for my new life at Kutztown. My life was changing and I had to accept this. I went shopped for my dorm, talked to my best-friends, and visited former high school students at parties.

I met up with a girl for coffee named Aly, who is a senior at Kutztown now. She graduated from my hometown about four years ago. We were talking about Kutztown and how there are two freshmen dorms that are absolutely the worst dorms on campus.

“Watch out for Bonner and Johnson! They are the worst dorms on campus that a freshman could have!” Aly laughs at her joke.

“Those are the worst residence halls because they were old and have not be renovated since they made the dorms which was in the 1960’s! My freshman year I dormed in Bonner and it was awful. Although I did meet some pretty great people who I now call my best friends.”

The emails were sent out a few weeks stating everyone’s living situations. I checked where I was going to be living for my freshman year and my cheeks burned as I scrolled through the My KU housing website. I was assigned to room 501 in Bonner Hall! This could not be happening to me. I thought my life was ruined. I wanted a beautiful dorm just like Elle Woods had!

On move in day, my parents and I moved my suitcases, furniture, sheets, etc into the square dorm room. The furniture was movable so I divided my room in half in case I got a roommate. I later on learned that my roommate never showed up! So that was a plus for living in these shity dorm rooms. During the first week of getting used to the college life and being away from home, I made super great friends that live in Bonner as well.

Flash forward to now, my friends and I were talking about how Bonner and Johnson are the worst dorms on campus. A couple of months ago, someone stole the couch on the fifth floor lounge and we have not seen it since. The person who is charge of the building individually  emailed everyone in the dorm saying we will be charged for the stolen couch. Also, just a few weeks ago, some drunk kid and their friends threw a rock from the courtyard and hit the fourth floor window causing it to shatter completely. People on the fourth floor were blackmailed into paying about two grand each until someone confessed.

Since I live on the fifth floor next to all of the pothead boys, it always smelled like pot in the hallways. The CA’s usually call the campus police to escort the people who are breaking the rules of the dorms so on the daily, Bonner sees cops giving out probation forms at least twice a week.

Bonner does have personality. For example, the first week was terrible because everyone in Bonner was so hot because Bonner doesn’t have AC. We had to take at least three times a week because of how gross it felt to stay in the sticky hot dorm rooms. Also, it gets super hot in the dorms in the winter as well, so pray for us freshmen who can never escape the hotness! Bonner also has disgusting bathrooms. The bathrooms are so gross even though they get cleaned everyday except for the weekends. In the showers there are hair sprawled out on the walls, toilets are never flushed, sinks are filled with food, and the trash is overflowing with four loko cans, beer, and dorm room trash.

Although Bonner is one of the worst dorm rooms on campus, I found my best friends and I would not have found them without my terrible living experiences from Bonner hall. So my first year as being a freshman doesn’t suck so bad after all! I have my friends and that’s what makes living in Bonner so great!

-Madison Clause

Act III: One Big Family

    People bring many things with them to college; clothes, bedspreads, personal memorabilia, and if you attend Kutztown University, fans. Lots and lots of fans. But one thing you can not always take with you to college is your friends from back home. Sure, you might get lucky and have a friend or two from home also go to your school, but you might not be that lucky. In this act we are going to talk about making friendships at college, specifically in your hall.

I live in Deatrick hall and I believe Deatrick hall is like one big, yep you guessed it, family. In every family there is different relationships throughout it, just like in your friendships in your hall. For example, everyone has that one family member that you always see at the yearly reunion, but you have no idea what their name is. And guess what, you will have some people like that in your hall. Ya, you see them everyday on the elevator going to your nine a.m.’s,  exchange your little “hey’s”, get off the elevator, and go on with your days. But, you probably do not hangout with them regularly or get food with them. These people in your hall may not be the most important but they are still nice to have, who else would say “hi” to you that early in the morning.

Another type of friend you will probably make will be someone you have a class with. Living in the same hall as someone you have class with is very helpful. Not only can you study together, but you will already know them and will not have to introduce yourself, your professors icebreakers already did that for you. A friend like this will completely understand why you are stressing over a test or ranting about an assignment. It also gives you someone to walk to class with. When it hits winter and you are freezing your butt off, you and your friends conversation could take your mind off it.

Living in a residence hall can also lead you to some of your closest friends in college. The ability to just get on the elevator and go hang out with your friends is really exciting. You will most likely spend hours and hours a day with these people. The memories you make will last with you forever. These friends become your second family.

I can still remember the first week of classes like it was yesterday. Two friends and I had some free time and decided to wander the floors, hoping to make some friends. We hopped from floor to floor, wing to wing. A couple doors on each wing were propped open, welcoming and inviting. We ventured inside of the mysterious rooms and introduced ourselves. And thank goodness we did because I ended up meeting some of my closest friends this way. I met the people I share classes with, walk to class with, eat with, go to sporting events with, and much more. Just by putting myself out there and being friendly I was able to make real connections with the people living in my hall.

Fellow deatrick resident and friend Evelyn said she also had a tip for making friends in your hall. She personally went to our floors lounge the first few days of school and talked to people in there. This idea works very well in the first few months for multiple reasons, one because it is so damn hot in our rooms so everyone is in the lounges just trying to grab some air conditioning. And two, because many people still hang out in the lounges at the end of the semester, there is always someone new sitting in the lounge that you can talk to.

Making friends in your dorm is very important and beneficial. I believe becoming friends with the people you share a building with, can lead to fun and lots of good memories. The people you live with can be some of the best people you will ever meet, but you will never know unless you put yourself out there. My advice is simple, say “hi” to as many people as you can.

Morgan Hartlaub

Act IV: Behind the Doors of Berks

The walls of our halls are one place that residents can find what is going on around campus. From the monthly potty paper in the bathroom all the way to the front desk bulletin boards, it is clear to see the multitude of activities there are to attend. All of the events become a place to meet people with the same interests as you and more. Berks Hall is a place that always stays updated on what there is to do.

Living in Berks hall is a great experience on its own. I have made so many connections with the people I live with. These connections always start with a friendly “hello.” From there, conversations are naturally made. Living in a mostly all freshman residence hall has already given all of us something in common. College is the newest step in all of our lives. Everyone is trying to get comfortable in their new surroundings.

I remember walking down my dorm hallway one morning and stopping by a poster that had “Fall Events” titled at the very top. I skimmed down the detailed list and saw one thing jump out at me. A trip to New York City for only $10! Instantly, I knew I had to go. How could I pass up an amazing opportunity that was so much cheaper than I have ever seen? I just couldn't.

Everything I needed to know about the trip was described at the bottom of the poster. The tickets would need to be bought at the MSU at 11:00. It would be on Saturday the 10th of November and the time the bus left to the time it came back would work so well for me. I immediately told my friends and they were so excited as well. We looked forward to this weekend for almost a month. The day had finally come. My two friends and I had experienced spending the whole day in the city without chaperones for the first time together. It was the most independent I have ever felt.

However, without that poster in the hallway and without the help of the student activity organizations/MSU, none of this would have happened. I wouldn't have known about those awesome opportunities if Kutztown didn’t have all of those things. Living in the halls on campus gives students different resources like these and makes the college experience well worth the money.

Similarly to me, Olivia Brownell had positive experiences living in Berks Hall. She had mentioned to me that one of the first activities she attended at Kutztown was brought to her attention in Berks hall as well. One night when she was coming back from her class, she saw a sticky note on the door. The note read, “Beyonce laser light show tonight. Meet me in the lobby at 6:30 and our hall can all go together. -Gianna”. Gianna is Olivia’s CA. Olivia had told me she gets these sticky notes on the door all of the time, whether it’s an invite to an event or just a reminder of the monthly hall meetings. Olivia took this opportunity and went to the show with her CA.  She mentioned how this event made her closer to people that also went. CA involvement is encouraged in the halls at Kutztown. In Olivia’s case, she says her CA is very helpful and loves to get everyone involved.

Having someone that is familiar with the campus is very beneficial to new students. CA’s giving direct invites gives residents a sense of home that they may not see right away after move in. These types of environments help students succeed and make lifelong friendships. Student involvement creates a community for Kutztown students and having plenty of resources only improves the campus. It is important to make the best out of living in these close communities. Checking the walls of the residence halls can only benefit the students that live there. Who knows? Maybe another trip to somewhere even more interesting will be displayed on the walls of Berks Hall.

                                                                                                   -Gianna Buff