The spirit of Georgetown is the best of any schools’ in the country. The housing? Not so much. It’s hard to go a day without hearing someone complaining about something related to housing. Most recent, the ire of many students was directed at the housing process for next year and the fact that rising sophomores were often excluded from Phase I selection, whereas many rising juniors and even some seniors found that they wouldn’t be able to live in their most desired places.
In honor of this tragedy and many others (including, but definitely not limited to: vermin infestations, dirty carpets, sub-par plumbing, outdated fixtures/appliances), here is 4E’s list of… 50 Things Better Than Georgetown’s Housing:
- Instructional continuity
- Leo’s coffee
- Losing your GoCard
- 8am classes
- Hot Chick and Chicken Madness not winning the GUSA election
- GUTS bus delays
- The laundry rooms’ notoriously useless dryers
- Going to Epi on a Sunday night, only to realize it’s closed
- SaxaNet
- GuestNet
- Getting one out of five classes during preregistration
- Our basketball team this year
- Getting rejected from every club
- The bathrooms in Reiss
- When people are talking obnoxiously on Lau 3
- Rhino closing
- Kehoe field
- Construction
- Running out of meal swipes
- Having meal swipes (and having to use them on Georgetown’s food)
- JT III
- Brown House not being a thing next year
- Doing a survey and not winning the promised gift card
- Getting hurt by the curve
- Missing Bill Clinton’s speech because you have class
- TAs
- Sending a well-formatted email to your professor and getting a one word reply
- Getting rejected from the GAAP group
- That one kid who incessantly posts in the GAAP group
- The GAAP group
- LL Lau
- Getting stuck behind a tour
- Roommates who snore (in which case, try this)
- Lecture captures
- GoCard swiping machines not working
- RATS
- Having a final on the last day of finals
- Georgetown Cupcakes lines
- When the professor shows up seconds before the class would have been cancelled
- Getting the snow day email after you’ve already gotten out of bed
- Having to give directions to a lost stranger on campus
- DC’s humidity in the summer
- Trying to get a timely appointment at the Student Health Center
- The fact that we don’t have a metro stop
- Our NCAA appearance this year (lol)
- Hoverboards being banned on campus
- Class in Walsh and St. Mary’s back-to-back
- Seeing 38592740372 pictures of cherry blossoms on Instagram
- Being haunted
- Nothing
In other words, the only thing worse than the housing system, is the housing system itself. Here’s to another year in Henle.
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