I don’t know why my mind travels back to my college years so frequently. Sometimes I drift back during random moments of the afternoon while I’m at work, whereas other times I have vivid dreams of my old school and the group of friends I bonded with my first two years of undergrad. It was a tumultuous time between the transition from childhood into adulthood coupled with this enormous pressure to make something of my time there to set the stage for the rest of my life. I knew many people who simply couldn’t handle it while being simultaneously overwhelmed by peer pressure and social claustrophobia. But, as frustrating as I know it was back then, I can’t help but look back with anything but yearning and positivity. Although, one thing I hated for sure was the administration’s habit of making weird policies. One was removing control of our HVAC thermostats in our dorm rooms during my second year. Our climate here gets fairly warm during any time outside of December through February, so having our access to temperature control removed was a huge disappointment. It was a shared source of frustration amongst the entire student body after the change went into effect. Some of the students managed to remove their thermostats and hand wire a new one in place of the “locked” one. Although, one of those students was nearly expelled for doing so after the modification was found during routine winter break inspections. I know one thing for sure, no matter how much I may look back on those years with rose colored glasses, I will never miss those terrible thermostats and the hot and humid dorm rooms we were subjected to during that time.
Air conditioning repair