I went to a really old college.
This college has been standing in my state for the last 200 years plus.
It’s a benchmark and touchstone for our state’s tradition and culture. I was really proud of myself when I was accepted to the school in the first place. This is the school I grew up rooting for whenever I watched college football games. This is also the school that I would buy merchandise from and where all sorts of T-shirts and sweaters over the years. So now to this day, I was really proud to be accepted to the school for college. However, the cost of attending the school was another thing altogether. I ended up having to get a lot of student loans and I’m still paying them back to this day. One of the things that I wasn’t a huge fan about with this college was living on campus. Let’s just say that the dormitories were fairly old at the time and they still haven’t been upgraded to this day. The bathrooms were communal and I hated having to share showers on a regular basis. The worst part was the bismol heating and cooling systems at the residence halls. We had central heating but each dorm room had its own window air conditioner. Those old window air conditioners were not sufficient at keeping the dorm rooms cold even in the best situations. It was really frustrating trying to go to school while living on campus and not having proper heating and cooling systems in our dorm rooms.