2A - Bug List

1. The washer and dryer in Beaty Towers costs over three dollars for a single load of clothing, meaning that only laundry day, I'm spending about seven dollars to wash clothing. Not to mention that soap is not provided.
a. In order to make the money to power and upkeep the appliances, Beaty has the washer and dryer cost this much.

2. The dorms on campus generally have something wrong about them that frustrates everyone. For Beaty Towers, it's not only the small size of the rooms that have to fit two people, but that each room only has one desk, meaning someone is always forced to work in the kitchen.
a. With so many dorms and not a lot of maintenance staff, problem arise and are dealt with when the time is available.

3. Meal plans are extremely expensive and aren't exactly useful. Either you pay for an overpriced meal plan that only fully covers the on campus cafeterias that don't have much variety, or pay extra money to go to a named restaurant on campus.
a. In order to pay for the staff, food, and appliances, the cost for food has to be rather high.

4. Most dorms have a single communal kitchen which can be a pain if there's already a line of people or if someone leaves it extremely messy; often the case during the evenings on the weekends.
a. In order to house so many students on campus, some dorms sacrifice having multiple kitchens for more housing space.

5. Parking is constantly a mess on campus with what seems like very little parking for students (even less for those under 50 credits,) on top of what feels like an over-abundance of parking for faculty. Circling the Norman lot on the weekends for an hour has become normal.
a. In order for professors and other staff to reasonably get around campus, they need ample parking, which in turn takes away from student parking.

6. Transportation and Parking Services is a mess, I'm currently waiting over a month to receive my student decal, and I received a citation despite having just walked out of the transportation office to request a longer temporary decal.
a. The parking services here on campus have to manage so many parking lots that it is unreasonable to expect them to have complete knowledge of all vehicles in those lots at all times.

7. Commuting to and from Miami is a pain: driving drains me of any energy I'd have for weekend trips and taking a bus is a gamble on if the bus even functions properly and won't break down, not to mention the generally high prices.
a. In order to pay for the buses that commute such a long distance, as well as a capable driver, services like the Greyhound bus require a lot of money.

8. Most "recommended" textbooks are rarely used in my classes, and in the end all they end up doing is messing up my back from the ridiculous amount of weight I'm carrying.
a. The recommended text books can provide extra practice if needed; in the end none of them are required and only serve to help a student if they need it.

9. The water heating system in Beaty prioritizes the people on the higher floors, meaning their water is easy to control, but for people like me on the second floor, it's only scalding hot.
a. Because the water heater is probably on the ground floor of the tower, it needs to heat up to extreme temperatures in order to reach the top floor.

10. The door to my dorm constantly jams, meaning that we have to slam the handle, waking anyone inside, if we want to get inside.
a. This is an issue that just arises with the age of the building. While the staff try to maintain the building as well as possible, some small issues like this arise.

11. Trying to find good food on campus during the summer is a hassle because anything good closes around 3PM, meaning we're on our own for food after that.
a. During the summer, the amount of students on campus diminishes. Thus, administration doesn't find the need to hire people to work evening shifts for most restaurants. This cuts down on the costs the campus has to pay in a year.

12. The SNAP system on campus is usually a gamble, with it sometimes coming within seconds of the call, while others can take over twenty minutes, leaving people in the cold.
a. SNAP drivers can be anywhere on campus when they accept a rider, thus it is reasonable to assume that if a driver accepts a rider across campus, it will take them time to get there. On top of dropping off other students.

13. It feels as though every class schedules their exams for the same times. Meaning I have to prioritize which exam I'd like to do better on and which grade can take a hit.
a. Exams usually follow a quarterly schedule, meaning that around a quarter into each semester, an exam is given. This is rather standard for most curriculum.

14. Forgetting to charge my phone and having it die on me is a real pain, I really need it to stay in contact with people all over campus.
a. If it really were an issue, I could either remind myself to charge my phone beforehand, or just buy a portable charger.

15. Having classes both early in the morning and late in the evening really limit my free time, as I have a gap in the middle of the day where I need to stay ready, but also enough time that I can get work done and still have time for myself.
a. This is just a matter of poor scheduling. If I really wanted all my classes to be around a certain time, I'd need to either pick earlier classes, or take other classes entirely.

16. The dorms on campus feel as though they're made for one to two people, yet the housing committee crams more people than there should be, leading to someone in the room constantly feeling like they're not getting enough space.
a. In order to fit as many students on campus as UF does, it is reasonable to assume they would sacrifice a bit of comfort for more people within the dorm.

17. Quizzes for classes range from really easy (generally during the first few weeks,) to extremely difficult and covering obscure material.
a. This could all just be within a student's own mind, sometimes it's just the material, or the professor teaching a certain chapter worse than others.

18. Many classes use ridiculously high grading preference towards short exams, meaning that a student can flunk out by bubbling in a few wrong questions on a few exams taking up two days, when they could be impeccable for the rest of the several weeks of the course.
a. Classes like chemistry and calculus require perfect to be given all the time. While it is a bit unreasonable, calculations like this should never be faulty, lest a bridge fall down due to a miscalculation or a patient be prescribed the wrong drug due to an imbalance of chemicals.

19. There aren't many high profile events, like concerts, that go on in Gainesville, usually once in a blue moon, and it's usually no one particularly famous, or enjoyable to me.
a. For a university, UF has a lot of events for the students, not all are high profile for concerts. But it would be much to expensive to be constantly doing those. Instead, the university opts for cheaper events that happen once a week, mostly for free.

20. Having to wait a week to watch the newest episode of my favorite shows is extremely annoying, but waiting months to watch the season in its entirety is just as bad.
a. This is just a matter of patience and the show being unable to produce episodes so quickly.

Reflection: Personally, I found coming up with the first few bugs easy. I just thought of all the things that annoyed me around campus in the few hours prior to writing them. However, over the next few days, I found it harder and harder to find things that truly bugged me. Most of the time it felt as though I was stretching to come up with something. Over the week I came up with my list of twenty bugs, some more bothersome than others, but all really do bug me.