Louisiana Tech is our sweet little prison in the middle of Ruston. It’s honestly amazing all that Tech students put up with through all of this horrendous torture, but there is no way we could leave Champ behind because this prison is our home. If you’ve ever spent more than 5 minutes on campus you will immediately recognize these crazy hurdles we jump over.

1. Parking

These crazy people charge us $80 dang bucks a year for a parking sticker yet the only places we have to park are the gravel death traps. On top of all the dust flying around in the air, Louisiana Tech managed to shut down 2 of our parking lots and honestly its been a real death match trying to find a place just to leave your vehicle while you go to learn. Granted, they are supposedly working on new and improved parking lots, but I'll believe it when I see it.

2. Chicken Bowl Line

On Wednesdays, some people may wear pink or some other stupid thing like that, but at good 'ole Louisiana Tech, we all rush to Kickin' Cajun and grab one of America's hidden treasures - the Chicken Bowl. The line may wrap a mile down throughout the Student Center, but it's worth it for the precious Chicken Bowl.

3. Prescott Memorial Library Hours

This great University thinks it's cute to shut down one of the only places where we can study. Listen, your not my mom so stop telling me when it's time to go to bed. I have 4 exams tomorrow and your boy ain't trying to fail out, so do me a solid and open up the library for 24 hours.

4. McAllister's Wait Time

I don't know what the heck is going on back there in Tolliver, but I swear it takes me 4,000 years just to get a broccoli and cheddar soup. You would honestly think they're growing fresh broccoli and making homemade cheese with the amount of time I sit there waiting.

5. One Way Streets

Ruston is not a huge metropolis, and it isn't even on a grid system, so I have no idea why they decided to put so many dang one way streets throughout town. Do you know how terrifying it is to see someone hurdling down the street, about to hit you head on because they just assumed this was a normal town with a normal university that had normal streets? It's a living nightmare trying to get from one place to the other with all the "Do Not Enter" signs.

6. B.O.S.S.

For a university that prides themselves on Cyber Engineering, you would think that our website wouldn't need to be down for maintenance every day for hours on end. I swear, every time B.O.S.S comes back up nothing has changed.

7. Football Games

We aren't a big state school by any means, but our football games aren't boring whatsoever. Whenever we play a big school we hang on till the last second and adrenaline pumps through our veins. The only problem is we only get to play power house conference teams maybe twice a year, leaving us to blow no name jokes out of the water every single week.

8. Trains

Who doesn't love our sweet alarm clock that rolls through every hour of the day waking us up? How the heck am I supposed to sleep with train horns blazing at 3 a.m. Living in Ruston has made me appreciate the time my mo threw away my Thomas the train set because trains are from the devil.

9. Stepping on the Seal

"I don't want to graduate. I don't need to graduate. It's just a myth. There's no way it's real" - these are some of lies we tell ourselves after we've committed an unforgivable sin agains our school. Why on Earth they decided to put a giant area where I can not step in the middle of the quad is beyond me.

10. Chipotle

Ruston, please bring us a Chipotle. I will never complain again if we have a Chipotle.

All in all Louisiana Tech is the best University in the Nation even if we have 0 parking and 0 chipotle