OK, so I gotta spout off to somebody, so who better than my online sisters? The Zeta House at the College of Charleston is over 200 years old. Which in a way is kinda cool, but in another way is kinda bad. It's an old wooden house, and the wood apparently is all rotten, we have recently learned that we have mammoth termites, and it's a bigger fire hazard than a book of matches. But it's owned by the College, so you think that our office of residence life would do something about this, right? Well, apparently the fire marshal came in to do an inspection at the beginning of July and concluded that our house was unlivable. (I know this makes it seem like the house is a rathole. It's actually very nice - one of the nicest on campus. The problem is what's behind the walls, the stuff you can't see.) So, now the College is paying for all these renovations FINALLY that we have been asking National Housing Corp for forever. So we are getting our kitchen and bathroom totally revamped (how that helps, I am not really sure, but they really need to be renovated, so I am not complaining.) Here's the problem - the renovations start TODAY, meaning that the 10 house girls can't move in until "hopefully" August 19th - and classes start the 20th!! And I was originally supposed to move in on July 31st, so now I have to find a place to crash for like 3 (maybe more) weeks. Thankfully, a fellow sister, to whom I owe my life, is letting me stay with her. Meanwhile, Recruitment Workshop starts August 11th, so all the house girls at least have to be in town by then. And recruitment starts August 23, and the first round of parties takes place in the sorority house. I currently live with our VP III, and she is freaking out about what we're gonna do if the renovations aren't done in time. I mean, did CofC residence life people not think to worry about these things sooner? I know they knew about the termites as early as March or April. Additionally, we have to close off our second-floor porch (which was the official "smoking porch") because apparently the beams are so rotten that the thing could fall down any second.
OK, sorry for all the b*tching, but I had to complain about it to someone.
Death to the stupid employees of South Carolina state colleges!!!
Get this BS!!!
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