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and many others (including, but definitely not limited to: vermin infestations, dirty carpets, sub-par plumbing, outdated fixtures/appliances), here is 4E’s list of… 50 Things Better Than Georgetown’s Housing: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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