What Grinds My Gears about Going Back to School

For this week’s “What Grinds My Gears” The DG Blog asked a couple of University of Bridgeport students what bothers them the most about going back to school. Here are their responses:

 “What grinds my gears about going back to school is to try and adapt to the work load all over again,”

– Noelle Charles, freshman

“What grinds my gears is trying to start all over again and being fresh meat. I miss being a senior,”

– Toyin Ben Shidah, freshman

“Waking up early for morning classes and not having time to eat breakfast.”

– Mabel Oppong, freshman

“What grinds my gears about going back to school is to not being able to stay up late and blog on Tumblr,”

 – Rachelle Jeanty, freshman

“Homework and nasty cafeteria food,”

– Sabreen Abdullah, sophomore

“The amount of money that I spend on buying room necessities, books for classes, in addition to tuition,”

– Geralda Moise, junior

“Buying books when teachers only use slide shows,”

– Devika Hudson, junior

“The long days, since I’ve crammed all my classes into three days,”

 – Alysia Virkler, junior

“Getting fined for dumb stuff like being charged fifty dollars for having an outlet in my room,”

– Trisha Bartholomew, sophomore

“The fact that there’s no cell phone service and no Wi-Fi in Seeley Hall,”

 - Stacey Cullen, sophomore

*following column was featured in dgotay.tumblr.com on September 2011

*following column was featured in thescribeonline.com on September 2011