The first days of school are always hectic. New classes, senile professors, crowded classrooms, early papers, and waiting forty fucking minutes for a tissue-thin pizza at Kimmel are just some of then fun things that await us this fall! But apparently we can add to that list trudging through CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE AROUND THE PARK.

Seriously. Try to walk past the Tisch building on Broadway; it’s like the final obstacle course from Double Dare. (Miss that show.) Once you’ve made it past that, turn right onto Waverly and be prepared to dodge construction vehicles, lecherous men in hard hats, and more dirt mounds than the Sahara! And let’s not forget the construction in the park itself, where they’re moving the Arch like two inches to the left. DOWNTOWN NEW YORK IS A PLACE OF QUIET BEAUTY.

I Google News’d it, but nobody can seem to tell me what all the construction is for. Are they repaving the roads? Are they making a new building? What’s hiding behind that giant green thing on Washington Place? I’m all for school improvement, but I think the school should tell us what exactly it’s improving.

I also think that maybe 11 am on a Thursday is not the best time to do construction around the main campus of the largest private school in the country. Call me crazy, but construction just makes the throng of students around Silver even worse. Plus, I’m totally to allergic to dust and dirt (along with pretty much everything in nature), and all that roadwork is legit not helping. Sure, I could just pop a couple DayQuil–which I do!–but I shouldn’t have to medicate my body in order to go to school. Can’t they do all that stuff later in the day, when there aren’t as many students? How about at night? How about NOT ALMOST BACKING INTO ME ON YOUR TRACTOR THING WHEN I’VE JUST GOTTEN OUT OF TWO LECTURES IN A ROW, BOB THE BUILDER.

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