The University Commons

The University Commons is known for being the most recently built building for the students. Its purpose is to serve as a home to those students that want to stay and live inside campus. Mostly freshmen live at The University Commons. On a real note, most people don’t really see The University Commons as an actual “home”, that being a place to feel comfortable and to stay all day inside because you’re just lazy. Most people just see the University Commons as a “temporary stay”, in other words: a place where you would go just to sleep after being all day in chaos with homework or just simply partying around campus.

The students, especially freshmen, are really into getting involved around campus and discovering those new things to adventure or meeting new people just to go to parties. New students don’t really like to stay at their dorms all day just because of all the things there are to do and people there are to meet. The University Commons are very modern and are nicely decorated with all the types of furniture, but it really is a pain when the elevator just gets stuck almost every day. Yes, it is known for being the most recently built building for students, but it also has a very bad reputation of its elevators getting stuck very often.

North Commons, West Commons and South Commons, those are the three buildings where most of the freshmen stay at. Yet in those three tall, modern, new and somewhat fancy building the elevator gets stuck most of the time which then leads into chaos. That chaos being, getting home from a long and tiring day or getting home from a long day of partying and hanging out to just find your way up the tallest stairs you will be seeing in your life on that moment. “Those mighty stairs of the devil” said Eric Franco, a student that lives in The University Commons on the fifth floor. “It just sucks to get home from a long day just to find out that the elevator is stuck so you have to suck it up and put on the Rocky theme song just to get to your floor all drenched in sweat”.

Outside of the University Commons it can be a peaceful place where you see birds chirping, the beautiful sun, the wind blowing right past you and the grass greener than ever, up until you enter and have to take those long stairs where the sun is shining right in your eyes, the sweat dripping, the voice inside saying “you have to hurry up because you’re going to miss the due date for the assignment”. All those are part of what bring chaos into the University Commons. “The stairs are not the only factors that bring chaos though and stress” stated Eric Franco. “The laundry room can bring pain also”. The University Commons all have do have a laundry room, but it is located on the 2nd floor, and it contains around 20 laundries and dryers. It can sound like a lot, but for the students it can be a real pain, especially when you leave all the laundry to do on a Friday. “If you go on a Friday, it is just pure chaos, people taking your clothes out so they can clean their own”.

As it seems, most of the students can be stressed and busy all weekdays so they leave the laundry till Friday, when most of the students hurry and clean their clothes because the weekend is going to start, and they need those beautiful/cool clothes for the parties to be clean. The University Commons includes very good features even though sometimes its students can be stressed about what happens inside. The university Commons include meeting rooms in each floor, the bathrooms that are new and modern, it is a public bathroom, but it is cleaned every day. Each floor is assigned an advisor so the “chaos” some students experience can be managed and resolved. The University Commons all around is a peaceful place disregarding some of its student’s behavior and the elevator. The University Commons really brings those new students together and it gives them some type of comfort and safety within their new chapters in life as university level students.