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30 Questions I Have For Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Hey, WPI, I got some thoughts and I can't be the only one.

Amy Toscano

Jan 16, 2017

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Going into the second half of my third year at WPI, while I am extremely comfortable and in love with this school, I have many questions as well for the student body, staff and administrators:

1. Why does myWPI need a countdown?

2. And with that, why are professors using both myWPI and Canvas?

3. Why does facilities only use 1 ply toilet paper?

4. Why does WPI ask you for donations when you're an undergraduate student paying tuition?

5. Why is Health Services not open for 24 hours like at other schools?

6. Also, why is Health Services a major inconvience to get to for the majority of students?

7. Why does WPI not put an emphasis on the Student Development and Counseling Center ever?

8. Why do meal swipes at the Campus Center cost more than if you bought the items separately?

9. With our tuition, why can we not print for free?

10. Why are students in the wrong for taking SNAP at night to Union Station to get to downtown Worcester?

11. Why does WPI keep accepting more students even though we don't have the dorm space?

12. Why does the Wind Tunnel need to be closed? (I know the answer but hey, major inconvenience)

13. Why are DAKA cookies not in the Campus Center?

14. Also, why does it matter if we call the dining hall DAKA?

15. Can the Campus Center have more outlets?

16. Also, can the Campus Center be bigger so we don't need to wander for 10 minutes trying to find a seat?

17. Why does Stratton Hall not have an elevator?

18. And why does Salisbury Labs only have one?

19. Why do students skateboard around campus at the weirdest hours?

20. Why is our school just so much better than RPI? (Sorry, RPI, we still love you <3)

21. Why are all of the treadmills broken in East Hall?

22. Why aren't real goats on our campus more often?

23. Why is the hill just so awful?

24. Why is our only not Chartwells food place on campus Dunkin Donuts?

25. Why does the library not have more good books to read casually?

26. How is there not a course on the many, many acronyms of WPI?

27. Why is our fight song actually one of the best, nerdiest things ever?

28. Why does WPI not have a designated nap time?

29. Like seriously, 7 term weeks are rough, what gives?

30. How did we all get so lucky to go to such as amazing institution?

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

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