I swear my uni has a welcome week building fail every year. Although I suppose two years running isn’t really a pattern *rolls eyes at self*

Last year there was a day of Humanities panels and there was a wasps nest in the room. Rather than find a different room, or reschedule, or even cancel, they just went on anyway. People got stung and everything.

Today I went for an intro lecture and the heating was broken, jammed full on and it was like a sauna in there (quite literally as for sustainability all the walls are wood panelled) and again rather than do anything about it, it was just ignored and a girl fainted.

I know the British stereotype is stiff upper lip, carry on no matter what, so perhaps it’s not very British of me to think they should have done something like move rooms, reschedule or cancel. I do think though that carrying on regardless is crazy and I don’t really understand why they do it. None of the scheduled events were that important.