Western loves its purple pride, but more often than not we’re complaining about something or other. Whether you’re a first year or a fifth year, here are the frustrations that every Western U student has at some point:
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Going to buy your textbooks at the Bookstore and realizing the line is as long as the Spoke one.
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The Spoke line.
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Spending a month’s rent on textbooks.
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Going to buy your textbooks online and realizing no one is selling them.
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Going to sell your textbook online and realizing no one is buying them.
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Being annoyed at the “Typical Western Girl” uniform of Lululemon, Uggs, and Canada Goose, but then realizing that you are in fact wearing Lululemon, Uggs and a Canada Goose jacket.
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Trying to take the LTC home late and realizing there are no more buses.
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Spending a week’s grocery money on Ubers due to said LTC struggles.
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Trying to stand up to the geese and having to end up taking a different route home because face it: you were intimidated.
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OWL crashing just as you were turning in your quiz at 11:59pm.
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Explaining to your non-Western friends that no, you’re not just a party school, but yes, you did go out five times this week.
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But you also have Homecoming during midterm season.
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The NCB Tim’s line.
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The UCC Tim’s line.
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The Social Sci Tim’s line.
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The Nat Sci Tim’s line.
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Snow.
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Walking up UC hill in rain, wind, sunshine and snow–all in one day.
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The bus being full at Nat Sci, only for the south side residence kids to get out and the bus suddenly emptying.
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Deciding to be a productive member of society and waking up early to study at Weldon, only to find that every single table is full at 9am on a Sunday morning.
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Deciding to be a productive member of society and waking up early to study at Taylor, only to find that every single table is full at 9am on a Sunday morning.
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When a prof refuses to use OWL and you expect to hear updates by carrier pigeon.
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When Western decides that they are simply too cool to have a reading week, and they will give us one day instead.
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Profs that go for their morning coffee 20 minutes into class when you’ve braved through hell to attend that 8:30am.
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8:30am Friday classes that are three hours long… truly Satan’s work.
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Trying to find a spot to eat lunch in the UCC. Good luck.
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The lovely, considerate people who sit on the aisle seat on the bus and refuse to move.
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People whose backpack needs a seat more than you, obviously.
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Western fuckbois. Truly a species of their own.
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Pledge week in front of UCC.
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People who don’t look when they jaywalk, and then proceed to blame the driver for driving.
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Western cheerleaders are too hot. Actually not that much of a problem–more of a beautiful visual privilege.
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Saugeen.
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First years looking like confused sheep and crowding the UCC.
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Western and Sarnia intersection–more like the Hunger Games.
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Needing to be Kim K to afford any of the Western merch from the Bookstore. Why is a Western onesie the same price as a textbook?