College is the best (worst) place to be. You’ll love (hate) it no matter where you go. QU is no exception. It’s got its perks and it’s not so perks, as well as some annoying things. Here are 10 annoying things to expect (or that you already know) about going to QU.

1. Outlook

The first annoying moment of Quinnipiac University orientation is trying to connect Outlook to your mail app. How do people do it? They recommend you check your mail twice a day, but tell me how do you do that without that little notification on the mail app? Oh, you say I can download the Outlook app, well that's just great because the app is also needlessly complicated. And tell me why everytime I check it on my computer it feels the need to log me out? It's the same computer, it’s still me, at this point I’m just receiving package notifications why do I need all this security.

2. QU Post Office

Receiving an email from noreply@sqbxmail.com is the best feeling in the world during the school year. Is it a care package? Is it the off brand hammock that you bought off Amazon to fit in with the cool crowd? Are your friends from high school sending you ten thousand thumbtacks… again? Picking up the package is annoying enough because the only time you have to grab the package the line is 10 miles long (that's only a slight exaggeration). You know what’s worse? Getting an email from noreply@sqbxmail.com when you’re on break, hundreds or thousands of miles away from that crowded room. The first notice, second notice, and final notice are STRESSFUL even if you’ve already talked to the post office to hold your packages until the semester starts again. Also side note: NEVER get a job at the post office. Just don’t do it.

3. The Grass

Again, back at orientation they tell you, “don’t walk on the grass unless your destination is the grass,” and you’re thinking to yourself “haha cool it’s just one of those quirky things schools say to seem authentic, I just won’t walk on the grass,” but by the end of the first semester you will be passionate about this. You will death glare anyone who steps off the path for a shortcut. What happened to you? You were so chill in high school, this is so foreign.

4. The Trays

This is another thing that you are warned about during orientation. I get the grass thing because it’s used to keep up appearances, but honestly having trays would be so useful. I am completely capable of balancing my $20 cheat meal while walking up stairs to my go-to booth, but we all have had an off day and I will admit to dropping (and breaking) a plate (or two). I haven’t seen anyone else do it but just the thought of the embarrassment of crying on the stairs cradling my once great bagel could have been spared because of trays is enough to get this on a list of annoying QU things.

5. Rebranding

Yes, rebranding. They did it twice my first year at QU and then they revealed QU plaid and then the new Bobcat design, and all this other - vanity - stuff. Sure the free merch of the reveal is great, but there is a sort of comfort is familiarity that QU is lacking. Hell, we aren’t even supposed to call it QU anymore it’s The Q. Which is stupid the same way rebranding Eggo waffles is stupid. I like my waffles the way they are, I don’t want them to change. Also what the h*ck is a junior Ivy League, we all know that doesn’t exist and we certainly know the majority of us couldn’t get into a normal Ivy League. You can’t fool us QU (excuse me the Q).

6. Yale

Yale is the worst. The rivalry is pretty one sided which sucks because I really want them to understand how badly we cream them in hockey every year. Despite that, they are pretty shady to us (or at least those who actually know how to pronounce our name, HA stupid smart kids) like calling the Toads bus the slut bus and kinda just being hella rude (writers note: do people still use hella? Do I care?). They get all the special treatment like special Yale student-only discounts of between 15-30% off at the appropriately named Yale Shops. Also, you can’t freakin' escape them. Shirts with YALE written in all caps are sold everywhere. I’m from LA and I find myself grinding my teeth when some thirteen-year-old wearing a Yale hoodie walks past with her Kale smoothie. It's haunting.

7. Toads

Toads is gross. Just putting that on the table. It is not, however, why I find toads annoying. I have gone to dozens of dance clubs, but I keep comparing them to Toads. How many places do they encourage girls to flash the DJ for a free drink on finals week? Come to think of it probably a lot because honestly, Toads isn’t really special, but it’s special to us. For a lot of students, it’s the location of their first anonymous hookup or a deeper exploration into how much PDA is too much PDA (the answer is that at Toads there is no limit). You develop comfort in the sticky floors and the way no one judges you for how you dance (you and everyone around you are too drunk to notice and/or care) and that no matter how much you drink you will never be the drunkest one there. I wanna go back to Toad like asap. But I can’t. :/

8. UBER

The Toads bus is great, I love it. Everyone always has fun and sometimes the seniors coming back from BAR give me free pizza BUT the bus from QU to Toads is few and far between and the New Haven bus during the day is unreliable. It sucks. So often times to get to campus before class or to get to toads (period) you have to UBER. And that shit is expensive. New Haven doesn’t offer the discounted UBERpool that bigger cities do but they do offer a $100 premium on, especially busy nights. BONUS!! Just kidding, that surcharge just makes my head hurt.

9. The Giant

Trails to the chin and the castle will always be busy (the only time I didn’t run into anyone was when I hiked the trail at five in the morning Danahallway4eva) but if you head north east the crowd really thins out. When you’re off exploring with your significant other (or in my case by myself) and hit your groove, running into anybody else might seriously disturb your experience. I can’t help it when I side eye a couple trudging along in the opposite direction as me. The only time this isn’t annoying is when the other hiker has a dog. Dogs are great at not annoying. I love dogs.

10. Housing

Sophomore housing caused many nights staying up late stressing. It hurts. If you have a group of friends you thought you’re going to room with you might just be the one kicked out if a group of 8 needs to go down to 7 or a group of 7 to 6. It stings being the one who was the least desirable and if you’re on the other side it hurts to eject one of your friends. Sure it’s your least favorite friend but you never knew you’d have to choose. You could wind up living with a stranger (or even worst your best friend) but who knows you might meet some bomb ass people you would never have otherwise met. But buckle in ya optimist you’re about to get to know them all too well.