I'm paying £3145 for alternative medicines


As most of you know, I go to Teesside university. I study a computing subject there. Most of my classes take place in the School of Computing, the single most underfunded part of the uni with the possible exception of the punching bag in the gym.

To give some of you an idea of how insanely underfunded my part of the uni is, let me try and explain how my uni is set up. We have a number of buildings, each of which has a "supposed" purpose. The Olympia is the lecture hall, with loads of lecture theatres and only a handful of work rooms. In reality pretty much every building is a General Purpose one, Except the bigass media building we have full to the brim with new and amazing technologies, a cafe, a couple thousand big screen TVs and what seems to be a quadrillion rooms filled with the most powerful computers my tuition can buy.

Now I'm not really complaining about this, the media and video games design portions are Teessides' specialities, its why we got the University of the Year this (or last) year. Yeah its kinda shit that my money goes toward stuff that I will never use and literally can't even enter the rooms containing the stuff, but whatevs, its computers and hardware and hurfffff.

No what I am pissed about is how much of my money goes toward 2 things; the "Therapy" stuff (that they also charge for) and the (lack of) facilities in the Students Union.

I think its pretty obvious that I'm not the kind of guy who believes in "alternative theropies" so, last week when an email arrived in my inbox happily telling me of the special offers on theorpy sessions in the Health area of the gym, I was not best pleased. I was so unpleased I even went out of my way to contact the people who run this stuff and ask about it. I hav't heard back from them. The Candle wax treatment must be fucking with their sense of hearing I guess.

Meanwhile, at the gym in the uni, you cant get a pair of punching gloves, the machines are damaged and there's very little support. Its insane. I've recently found we actually have an entire floor dedicated to this horrible shit. Why? What place does this have in the uni? Why am I paying for it? Why can't my money go toward something imporant?

Such as entertainment and proper usage of the Student union, for example. For those that don't know, the SU at Teesside is a bar. Its a small pub with a cafe and a cash machine and a small area where people harass me about joining Islam or the drama club or the anime club rejects bother me about their "pirate society". and theres a shop.

There is, however, a very very minimal amount of stuff for people who don't want to just drink all the god damn time. I get it, you guys are students, you want to have fun, whatever, thats cool. Theres some bars litterally 20 feet away from the uni. Knock yourselves out. But I can't hire a single part of the "Students Union" for the purposes of societies or clubs. The people at the students union (for example, the financial support) are completely useless and every thing else is aimed at sports. Which, I suppose, brings me to another point.

Sports. Hey guys, do you like sports? No? Well fuck you. We have no less than 2 sports buildings, 3 if you count the several outdoor football pitches we have. These buildings contain tons of shit that is sololy used by sports students or the "ELITE ATHLETES" program people. Just a heads up, nothing against you guys. You guys are the most helpful people in the world in the gyma nd I apperciate all your help and admire your abilities but hey maybe instead of another football pitch we can have a vending machine in the SCM building yeah?

Could be worse I guess. I could be a drama student here.

2 comments:

S. G. Renee said...

That's too bad. It's an occurring theme here as well, of what I've observed anyways.
The colleges put so much money into only a couple aspects and neglect the others. Sports is definitely always a primary focus in schools for some reason. Sports are great sure, and students should play them - nothing wrong with that. But seriously, it's getting to the point were you can't get a scholarship unless you play sports. What exactly is the school trying to tell its students there?

The bar situation however in the SU, I'm lucky I don't have to deal with it. Half of American students are underage in college. The union here actually tries to have activities, events, and so forth for students to participate in. They're not usually great at all, but hey, at least they're trying, right? It is a small ass town, so I'll give them credit.

Selling new age products is one thing ~ making students pay for its services is just fucking disgusting. There's plenty of New age shit in our book store and to me it's not that big of a deal. There's always wannabe hippies at colleges - comes with the packages really. But making you guys pay for that? Yea, that's fucked up.

Idk if this is just American schools (since it runs just like our government really), but this is what I have noticed: Colleges act extremely liberal, especially with the whole New Age crap and so on. But, it's almost as if they're using it as advertisement: "Hey, look we're really cool~ join our school!" It feels more as an act. Listening to teachers, administrators, what the campus does and so forth: it's extremely conservative. And conservative in the manner that it hurts academic growth. The physical properties of how they treat different areas of the school can show that pretty well I think.

NemsMole said...

Well first of all, sports get scholarships because of collage leagues and stuff like that. Schools get money based on how well their teams do + they can also get cash if that dude goes off to join the NFL or whatevs.

Being trendy will always be synonymous with being a student. Being liberal will also always be synonymous with it too. Thats just how it goes.

bare in mine btw, you are paying for that stores upkeep. So in a way you are still paying for the new age products.

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