I don’t know if all universities are like this or if mine is a special case, but my university does not give me entirely what I pay for (and from what I’ve heard, they are all the same).

Just a few examples I’ve encountered:
- My university has no guidelines regarding what to do in the event of problems that occur regularly or are sure to occur.
For instance, I once couldn’t do an exam because of a mistake on the teacher’s part. The university immediately admitted it was entirely the teacher’s fault, yet they could not offer me fair solutions to ensure that I would get the mark I deserved.
When I asked if they had written guidelines or rules about what to do in such situations, they told me they had nothing. Although I could not do the exam because of the teacher’s mistake, this is the same type of situation as a teacher losing a student’s exam/assignment before grading it, which I am sure is an event that happens every year in every university. Yet, no guidelines about this.

- Teachers post all marks online except for the marks on final exams. For these, we must send them e-mails once our final grades(i.e. course averages) are out and wait for replies.
Why aren’t the marks of final exams posed? I’m guessing it’s just laziness. I think knowing my marks is good feedback that tells me how well I did and if I should study more efficiently in the future. Basically, it’s important for academic success. I can’t even begin top understand why such information isn’t given away to students immediately (i.e. without them having to request it).

There are other problems like these that I consider to be quite unprofessional from a university. I won’t list them all,
I just wanted to give a few examples to show what kind of problems I’m talking about (i.e. problems about academic performance and success, not “petty” problems such as “they have a tennis court but they won’t open a swimming pool!”)

So again this could be just my university, but I heard they’re all the same. Students I talk to fell universities try to suck as much money out of them. That is easy for them to do considering the lack of competition on the education market (at this level of education); students don’t have the choice to go to a better uni, they can only choose between sucking it up or cleaning toilets ll their life.

So with that in mind, I would not be very patient with my university. If I was in the same situation as the guy who posted the first note, I would also be telling the university “I’m paying lots of money to live in a building with a chute. So if it doesn’t work, find an other solution!”.

That’s life: you can’t use people and then expect them to make you favors.

As for the second note: I disagree with it. Facility employees do not have to pick up the garbage for students if this is not part of their job contract. If it is, then they are paid to do it. It’s that simple.

The way I see it, things should work that way:
- Students should not bring the garbage outside, they should expect the university to hire someone to pick it up until the chute is working again.
- Employees whose job it is NOT to pick up this trash should refuse to do this task if asked.
- The trash will accumulate in the hall. Wait a few days, and if the university still won’t do anything about it despite the complaints, then a threat to call the sanitary inspection service should convince them.

And I’m pretty sure it is legally the responsibility of the owner of the facility to find an alternative to the chute. You see, students have signed a contract that says they pay to live in a building which features a chute.

Oh and by the way, an elevator won’t help. If the whole dorm takes their trash outside that week, it will be crowded and students may need to wait quite a bit every time they take out the trash.

Not to mention that if this occurs every year, the university should be prepared for it.

And if anyone intends to say “it’s only unavailable for one week”, my reply will be “then they need to hire someone only for one week!”.

Definitely a case of a university trying to save a few bucks on the back of students.

or…

2) Ask yourself why upperclassmen at this expensive university cannot spell.

It feels so good to give them Fs.

Besides, I didn’t want to look like I was picking on the differently-abled!