Frustrated Already!

To the Editor:

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a freshman. That means that I have spent less than three weeks on this campus. In the days since my arrival I have experienced the most intense moments of unwarranted, unsolicited frustration and aggravation of my life.

I ignored all the monotonous murmurings of cynical upperclassmen and the negative cliches I had been hearing my entire first week here. But alack and alas, I too, am now a bitter, cynical, negative person, due to the most ridiculous things.

The conflict of emotions is staggering. Coming to YU, a top tier University, an awesome Yeshiva, and the greatest bunches of guys in the world-yet I am so angry I want to punch a wall.

Why in only three short weeks do I feel so aggravated and frustrated?

Maybe it's because every time I start to do some work in the library, my computer freezes.

Maybe it's because I have been late to class six times while waiting 20 minutes for a Belfer Hall elevator.

Maybe it's because I only have twelve minutes between classes to run to the Caf in hopes of purchasing dinner only to find lines stretching to the Cross Bronx Expressway.

Excuse me, which office was I supposed to go to???

Maybe it's because I ruined my new shirt last week because I leaned on a wall of wet paint.

Maybe it's because I am still waiting for that blasted elevator.

Ooops, this computer just froze. Again.

Welcome to YU, land of aggravation, frustration, and Sy Syms fliers clogging my mailbox.

Joseph Stettin
YC '02