I'm taking on more than my usual this semester. I'm ready.
I'm prepared for whatever may be thrown my way.
The first of perhaps many papers was due this past Friday. I wrote a paper on my response to an unknown work of art. I saved my finished work and emailed it to myself. I woke up early and arrived on campus thirty minutes before my class started. I had hoped this would give me ample time to get to the Marshall Center, print my paper, and arrive at the start of class. I was soon reminded of the lavished renovations that had been completed to the Marshall Center over the summer.
The University of South Florida has been experiencing major "cut-backs" in the past few months, years, etc. due to shortage in funds. Currently I am taking four classes. Three of these four classes are being taught by graduate students. Although each of them have what seems to be a structured class lined up for this Fall semester, and knowledge to bestow upon a budding artist as myself, I feel jipped. We pay so much in tuition, and I never see a strong reflection of my tuition dollars being used in ways that I'd like. We've got a campus overrun with parking garages, they seem to finish a new one on a weekly basis.
The Marshall Center is in it's final stages of being finished. I opened the heavy glass door to reveal a bright and shiny Beef O' Brady's. Flat screen TV's in each corner of the room, gaming tables, and an arsenal of draft beers that stretched on through the back wall of the restaurant for days. What's a university need with a bar like that right on campus? The bar wouldn't have bothered me so much if I were only able to print my paper. It seems the school rushed to finish the Beef O' Brady's and their adjacent Ben and Jerry's ice cream shop that they didn't get around to setting up the computer lab.
Long story short. I won't be able to use the computers that were once made available to students for paper printing purposes until September second, but in the meantime I can belly up to the bar.
