Saunas Spotted On Campus

No the headline doesn't lie. There are saunas on my college campus. All you have to do is go into a business building classroom. I have a 10:30 class in one, and although I usually get a decent amount of sleep the night before, the awkwardly warm temperature in the room resembles that of a warm bed in the morning — the kind you don't want to get out of .

It is sad because the class is not boring at all, instead the entire group of students spends more time fighting off the yawns and losing the battle with their eyelids, rather than being able to pay attention to the lectures.

I guess this is blog worthy because I feel bad for the teacher. On average, two people (one person is always the same guy) fall asleep in the class, being overcome by the friendly, sleep inviting warmth. I see the look on the prof's face when she sees him doze off, but what can you do when the heat is that overwhelming.

On the other hand, other classrooms are refrigerator and freezer-like. All the rain that we got the last couple of days seemed to amplify the drastic differences in temperature. Not to mention, excess rain water seeped into the underground storage for heating pipes and caused large amounts of steam to rise out from the drains and manhole covers. Also making the central heating system work overtime to keep the water pumping through those pipes warmer than the cooling rain water hitting the pipes.

All this adds up to our campus being too old and the administration having to cut funding to replace heating and air conditioning units. Which means, when the warmer months roll around, the heaters will still be on, and they will be switched over to A/C just in time for the heaters to be turned back on.