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Everyone who has lived on campus at college knows that when the time comes to choose your housing for next year, it's going to brutally suck. You have have your top 3 choices and lose all of them in about 20 minutes, leaving you scrambling for anything. I've been through the process once before, and it is not something I ever really want to go through again. Alas, I had to.
Tonight was the night to choose special interest housing at my uni. My best friend on campus is a male, so we decided to see if we could room together through Gender Neutral, and tonight was the night to do it. Now I have issues with Gender Neutral Housing as it is. Anyone can sign up for it, as long as they follow the rules, which are a little different from regular housing (mostly when it comes to finding/having roommates). However, I believe that people who are rooming with people of the opposite sex and/or transgendered folk should get a slightly higher priority number, since Gender Neutral is the only way to allow you to live that way. If you don't get it, you're screwed.
A lot of people, however, choose to go through Gender Neutral at my school as a way to get into the upperclassman dorms (the only two that house GN) before other people. This means frat boys are signing up for GN to get into suites with livingrooms and kitchens before anyone else. I have issues with that. But I digress...
The night goes along and I'm starting to get annoyed with the freshman who want to get into the upperclassman dorms. Priority numbers are counted by the number of credit hours you've completed up to the previous semester. A freshman would have a number somewhere around 15. I on the other hand, as a junior, have a priority number of 76. I can't even begin to tell you how many people started getting upset because they couldn't move into fully furnished suites because their total priority number (roommates credit hours all added together) of 46 got beat out by a group of seniors with a priority number of 225.
"But it's not faaaaaaaaaaaaair!"
The sucktastic highlight of the evening though was in a dispute over one room. There was one 4 person single suite left (4 single rooms with a common livingroom/kitchen) and there were two groups fighting it. Both groups had the same priority number, so the tiebreaker comes down to who has the highest combined GPA. The two groups are a mixed sex group (two girls/two guys) and a pair of four very... um... flamboyant young men.
Well, the men won out. They proceeded to then start cheering and shouting about how yeah, they were better than the other group, wooo gay men win out every time. One of them even got up in one of the girl's faces and said "IN YOUR FACE!"
They went up to get their room registered and then all of the sudden, the four of them broke out into a rendition of "Hollywood" at the top of their lungs.
I don't give a flying frick if your gay, or if you won. Win graciously. That group of people? One of them happened to be a decent friend of mine. You made her cry.
You're all dicks, and I hate you.
Tonight was the night to choose special interest housing at my uni. My best friend on campus is a male, so we decided to see if we could room together through Gender Neutral, and tonight was the night to do it. Now I have issues with Gender Neutral Housing as it is. Anyone can sign up for it, as long as they follow the rules, which are a little different from regular housing (mostly when it comes to finding/having roommates). However, I believe that people who are rooming with people of the opposite sex and/or transgendered folk should get a slightly higher priority number, since Gender Neutral is the only way to allow you to live that way. If you don't get it, you're screwed.
A lot of people, however, choose to go through Gender Neutral at my school as a way to get into the upperclassman dorms (the only two that house GN) before other people. This means frat boys are signing up for GN to get into suites with livingrooms and kitchens before anyone else. I have issues with that. But I digress...
The night goes along and I'm starting to get annoyed with the freshman who want to get into the upperclassman dorms. Priority numbers are counted by the number of credit hours you've completed up to the previous semester. A freshman would have a number somewhere around 15. I on the other hand, as a junior, have a priority number of 76. I can't even begin to tell you how many people started getting upset because they couldn't move into fully furnished suites because their total priority number (roommates credit hours all added together) of 46 got beat out by a group of seniors with a priority number of 225.
"But it's not faaaaaaaaaaaaair!"
The sucktastic highlight of the evening though was in a dispute over one room. There was one 4 person single suite left (4 single rooms with a common livingroom/kitchen) and there were two groups fighting it. Both groups had the same priority number, so the tiebreaker comes down to who has the highest combined GPA. The two groups are a mixed sex group (two girls/two guys) and a pair of four very... um... flamboyant young men.
Well, the men won out. They proceeded to then start cheering and shouting about how yeah, they were better than the other group, wooo gay men win out every time. One of them even got up in one of the girl's faces and said "IN YOUR FACE!"
They went up to get their room registered and then all of the sudden, the four of them broke out into a rendition of "Hollywood" at the top of their lungs.
I don't give a flying frick if your gay, or if you won. Win graciously. That group of people? One of them happened to be a decent friend of mine. You made her cry.
You're all dicks, and I hate you.
Can't say that freshman year though--due to her auto accident that summer, I had to stay in the dorms. Still, I didn't have to fight for on-campus housing.
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