Humanities Students Screwed

So most of my classes tend to be held in old buildings that house the old departments. One of them has been recently refurbished, but it's still an old building. Basically, what I'm trying to say is, the air conditioning sucks in those buildings.

I do occasionally get assigned a class in the Business building...comfortable air conditioning there, as the building is pretty new. They built it when I first came here. It's comfortable. You get the feeling the settings are higher than ideal to cut energy costs, but it's livable.

Today I had a class in the Engineering building, and apparently most of the normal inhabitants are penguins. Freezing. Makes me wonder...because that building isn't exactly new, although the part I was in might be. But still, we all had to pay an extra $200 energy fee this semester, and as far as I can tell, most of that money is being spent by engineering.

Maybe the hippie departments are just down with open window cooling systems. And not having computer hookups at every seat plus wireless throughout the building. We're sweaty and unable to access the university's wireless computer network in our buildings, while the geeks are ice cold and able to check their e-mail whenever they want. Damned engineers.

Posted by Jenelle at August 24, 2006 06:40 PM | TrackBack