Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Things I dislike about this place

Now, nothing is perfect and UB is not an exception.  There a few things about this place that piss me off a little bit. In no particular order here they are
1: The disorganization.
    Registration is by hand. I  filled out a form and handed to my international adviser. I saw it in a binder in his office. However, when I went to pick up a print out of my schedule it was no longer there. The adviser lost it, so he had to register me all over again.  You get an Id card here. Once you get this card you must go over to the ID office and activate it. Even when it's activated you can't use the internet until you register you're computer with you're department. I am technically under the Dept. of Science, however, I'm registered as being under the Dept. of Humanities.  So, i had to go first to the Dept. of Science, only to learn that I had to register with humanities. The buildings here are randomly numbered.  239 is in fact, not next to, or even near 240.
2: The rooms
    I live on the top  floor and there is no elevator.  It gets so hot sometimes.  This I am ok with. It's the fact that there aren't any drawers that kind of frustrates me.  My stuff is just kind of randomly thrown about the place.  You need to lock your belongings in your closest everytime you leave, and to have to unplug everything and put it in there before i leave, is annoying.  My internet jack on my side of the room also doesn't work.  The internet cable works fine. It's the internet jack that is the problem. Anytime I want to use the internet I have to borrow my roommates, or go somewhere where there is wifi.
3: The beds
   Primarily, my mattress. It is very comfortable, however, I am 85% sure that I do in fact have bed bugs. I do not like waking up covered in bug bites, and while they don't itch, they are everywhere on my body giving me the appearance of someone with chicken pox.
4: The pool
    You need to wear a swimming cap. I don't understand why, but apparently it's a rule here. In my opinion a very stupid role.
5:The way information gets around.
    Everything is by word of mouth, and tends to be slightly unreliable.  I was told by who i thought to be a reliable source that there was no school on monday. However, it turns out that classes did meet that day, but most teachers ended class early.  So i ended up missing all of my monday classes.  You aren't told anything until the very last second.  For example, if you need to pick up your schedule, you'll only find out that they don't have it once you get there.  Most of the time I have no idea what is going on here.  If something is going on, they way i find out is by someone asking me if I am going to that event or whatnot.
6: Manners
   Where I come from, you wait until people are done walking through the door, and then you go through the door. Here, everyone shoves their way through the door, regardless whether or not someone is trying to come through the opposite direction.  The cars here, do not believe in the yield for pedestrian thing.  They WILL run you over if you are crossing the street in front of them.  I was walking with some friends and if i didn't side step into my friend I would've hit the side view mirror of the oncoming car.  When in the food court, here you don't wait your turn to order. Here you form a big mob and try to be the first one to order by forcing you way through the crowd.

I really do like this place, however it does have flaws. Maybe this is part of culture shock and I'll get over it, or maybe this will always bug me. Only time will tell.

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