I’ve been a student at Mercyhurst for almost two years now and here are some of the questions I have as a Mercyhurst student.

1. Is Egan (aka Grotto Commons) ever going to actually be finished?
2. Why are the vegetables never consistently cooked correctly?
3. Did moving the drinks over by tables actually help flow or just create more traffic?
4. Why do none of the mailboxes work?
5. Why can’t they just have keys instead of combinations?
6. Why is the Wifi usually super spotty?
7. Why is the DocuCenter completely hidden away?
8. Why is the Student Union so far away from the apartments?
9. Do people even know where the Psych department is?
10. Why do some buildings have air conditioning and others don’t?
11. Why do only certain classrooms in Zurn have AC?
12. Why does it sometimes take so long to have the sidewalks shoveled when it snows?
13. Why didn’t we just start the spring semester on Tuesday after MLK day?
14. Why is one room in the Briggs apartments so much tinier than the other room?
15. Why do you think two people can comfortably live in such a tiny room?
16. Does the mailroom keep track of how many times I get a package?
17. Why do I sometimes have water pressure and sometimes not?
18. Why are the water knobs so touchy?
19. Why are there so many layers of paint on the walls and everything else?
20. Why is registering for classes so difficult?
21. Why does registration seem like the Amazing Race?
22. Why are the walls so paper thin?
23. Do you like to be woken up by your neighbors leaving for class?
24. Why do the classrooms sometimes have weird smells?
25. Why can’t the temperature in the classrooms every be steady?
26. Why are their classrooms in the library?
27. Are there not any other available classrooms that you have to put the class in the library?
28. Why are freshmen allowed in my major class to fill their core?
29. What happened to Research and Writing?
30. Why do the maintenance men do strange things like mow the grass at 6PM?
31. Why do they have so many different golf cart like vehicles?
32. Why don’t we have Springfest outside if it is nice enough?
33. Why does it have to be in the Rec where everyone is dying of heat stroke?
34. Why are the shirts in the bookstore so expensive?
35. Why are the children’s’ clothes even more expensive?
36. Why are the stuffed animals like $50?
37. Why were their mums randomly placed on the stairs?
38. Was it so that people like me could trip on them?
39. Why is maintenance always putting down mulch?
40. Have you ever heard of rubber mulch, it lasts way longer than regular mulch and it’s made out of recycled rubber, like old tires?
41. Why did I sell $60 worth of textbooks back to the bookstore to only get $4 back?
42. Why does it always feel so good to beat Gannon?

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