Recommended for you

Start writing a post

Student Life

23 Thoughts You Have While Driving On Campus

College campuses: where the road is everyone's walkway.

Kelly Donnelly

Sep 17, 2017

Rutgers University

108

23 Thoughts You Have While Driving On Campus

Kelly Donnelly

Many large college campuses consist of busy main avenues and highways. While convenient to have actual roadways that run through campus to make it easier to get from Point A to Point B, it can also lead to many frustrations. Here are some thoughts many of us have probably had while driving through or around campus:

1. WHY CAN’T PEOPLE LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING?

2. There should really be separate bike highways like there are in the Netherlands.

I feel bad for whoever needs the ambulance with flashing lights and sirens blaring because I don’t know how the hell they’re going to get through this traffic-packed intersection.

3. I can’t pay your tuition if you’re unsuccessful in crossing the notoriously busy street because I’m a student in debt just like you.

4. THAT’S. NOT. EVEN. A. CROSSWALK.

5. I should have taken another way...

6. ...or taken the bus. Yeah, that might’ve been better.

7. You know, I am probably part of the traffic problem because I'm taking my car instead of the bus

8. But will this merge actually happen though?

9. SHIT, I NEEDED THAT LANE AND I'M IN THE TURN ONLY LANE.

10. #%$@@$$ $%&^^##$%!

11. Waves hands in air in frustration towards ignorant pedestrians as they cross in front of your car while staring at their phone

12. This university existed longer than the invention of automobiles.

There should probably be a better traffic pattern on this campus.

13. Welp, I'm just going to park in this lot that I obviously don’t have a parking pass for and hope I don’t get a ticket from campus police.

14. Why are almost all of these streets "one-way"?

15. This would be a lot easier if I was a superhero with a supercar that could fly.

16. My car would look ~super fly~ if it were blue and had wings.

17. Maybe campus police would think it’s a large bird and not ticket me...

18. Why is the crossing signal on at the same time as the turning arrow for vehicles turning toward said crosswalk?

Who really has the right of way?

19. Sure, you just HAVE to run on the road when there is a perfectly clear sidewalk parallel to you?!

20. Wait, this person is not going to cross the street during a green light?!

21. They must be new to campus and haven’t given into jaywalking through rush hour traffic.

22. This bus is obviously a much bigger creature than me, so I'll just let it merge back into traffic first.

23. You know? The pedestrians in downtown are so much more civilized than the ones near the residence halls.

Report this Content

This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.

Student Life

The 12 Stages Of Course Registration, As Told By "Friends"

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

The State University of New York at Stony Brook

7351

YouTube

As college students, we are all familiar with the horror show that is course registration week. Whether you are an incoming freshman or selecting classes for your last semester, I am certain that you can relate to how traumatic this can be.

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

Bonus points if it is more than two.

Keep Reading...Show less

registration

Featured

Economic Benefits of Higher Wages

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

Florida International University

303282

Illistrated image of people crowded with banners to support a cause

StableDiffusion

Raising the minimum wage to a livable wage would not only benefit workers and their families, it would also have positive impacts on the economy and society. Studies have shown that by increasing the minimum wage, poverty and inequality can be reduced by enabling workers to meet their basic needs and reducing income disparities.

I come from a low-income family. A family, like many others in the United States, which has lived paycheck to paycheck. My family and other families in my community have been trying to make ends meet by living on the minimum wage. We are proof that it doesn't work.

Keep Reading...Show less

Entertainment

13 Times April Ludgate Perfectly Explained College

Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

2254

Every college student knows and understands the struggle of forcing themselves to continue to care about school. Between the piles of homework, the hours of studying and the painfully long lectures, the desire to dropout is something that is constantly weighing on each and every one of us, but the glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel helps to keep us motivated. While we are somehow managing to stay enrolled and (semi) alert, that does not mean that our inner-demons aren't telling us otherwise, and who is better to explain inner-demons than the beloved April Ludgate herself? Because of her dark-spirit and lack of filter, April has successfully been able to describe the emotional roller-coaster that is college on at least 13 different occasions and here they are.

Keep Reading...Show less

april ludgate

Recommended for you

23 Thoughts You Have While Driving On Campus

College campuses: where the road is everyone's walkway.

1. WHY CAN’T PEOPLE LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING?

2. There should really be separate bike highways like there are in the Netherlands.

3. I can’t pay your tuition if you’re unsuccessful in crossing the notoriously busy street because I’m a student in debt just like you.

4. THAT’S. NOT. EVEN. A. CROSSWALK.

5. I should have taken another way...

6. ...or taken the bus. Yeah, that might’ve been better.

7. You know, I am probably part of the traffic problem because I'm taking my car instead of the bus

8. But will this merge actually happen though?

9. SHIT, I NEEDED THAT LANE AND I'M IN THE TURN ONLY LANE.

10. #%$@@$$ $%&^^##$%!

11. *Waves hands in air in frustration towards ignorant pedestrians as they cross in front of your car while staring at their phone*

12. This university existed longer than the invention of automobiles.

13. Welp, I'm just going to park in this lot that I obviously don’t have a parking pass for and hope I don’t get a ticket from campus police.

14. Why are almost all of these streets "one-way"?

15. This would be a lot easier if I was a superhero with a supercar that could fly.

16. My car would look ~super fly~ if it were blue and had wings.

17. Maybe campus police would think it’s a large bird and not ticket me...

18. Why is the crossing signal on at the same time as the turning arrow for vehicles turning toward said crosswalk?

19. Sure, you just HAVE to run on the road when there is a perfectly clear sidewalk parallel to you?!

20. Wait, this person is not going to cross the street during a green light?!

21. They must be new to campus and haven’t given into jaywalking through rush hour traffic.

22. This bus is obviously a much bigger creature than me, so I'll just let it merge back into traffic first.

23. You know? The pedestrians in downtown are so much more civilized than the ones near the residence halls.

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

What is the current minimum wage at the federal level?

What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

Told through Parks & Recreation GIFs

Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

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.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

Trending Topics

Top Creators

Trending Stories

Best of Student Life

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments

11. Waves hands in air in frustration towards ignorant pedestrians as they cross in front of your car while staring at their phone

Subscribe to our
Newsletter