Freezing Cold and Frustrated!

I’ll admit it—I haven’t taken a real shower since Thursday. Is that disgusting? Absolutely. I’ve had to resort to 30 second rinse offs and washing my hair in the sink because the hot water in my dorm has been out since Thursday afternoon, and it shows no signs of improving. Both my building and the buildings around us have been having hot water problems on and off for the last two weeks, but this is certainly the worst it’s been so far. Were it a temporary problem I knew the University was trying to fix, perhaps I’d be more understanding. However several maintenance reports have been filed with Housing, and to my knowledge no progress has been made. Furthermore, we have not been notified by anyone from the University as to the cause of the problem. An employee worked on the problem in the suite below me, and left because the water got luke-warm after running for an extended period of time, apparently proof that there was no problem at all. Perhaps my reaction seems spoiled and petty, but after three months of living in a building plagued with maintenance problems seemingly weekly (one of our sinks doesn’t drain, my door was programmed incorrectly and would let me in for a week, one of our showers doesn’t work well regardless of water temperature), I’m frustrated that this has persisted for so long. Yes, the building is being torn down next year. But I, and close to 200 other people, live here this year, so I wish that the upkeep of it was esteemed as highly as any other building. If it wasn’t in good enough condition to house students, the school shouldn’t have used it.