The Heat

                I love almost everything about Virginia Tech. The campus is beautiful, the food is great, and then people are nice. One of the few things is dislike here is the summer heat. The heat here isn’t a normal outside hot; it’s a kind of sweltering heat that makes everything sticky because of the humidity. Generally when it rains, I would be grateful because the rain cools down the heat. But here when it rains here I am filled with dread. The rain is great until it stops and everything is left wet and ready to be dried by the sun. When the water is evaporated by the sun, the air is similar to the heat of a sauna. Except the difference is that it’s not relaxing because you’re walking through it for 15 min trying to avoid people while carrying a backpack occupied with notebooks and a laptop. You would think that because of the intense heat, there would be air conditioning in every building, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

 Here at Tech air conditioning is a gift that I have come to have a new appreciation for.  First of all I live in a dorm without air conditioning, which I still haven’t come to understand myself. Why would anyone make dorms without AC? I know that it gets cooler in September so you will not have a need for it, except the thing is that it gets warmer again at some point. Of course people can bring fans for their room, but I’ve learned that fans can create a nice little breeze, but that breeze is the hot air bring circulated around your room. It makes doing work in my room painful, so I end up trying to find a cooler place in my dorm so I can concentrate on my studies. I was trying to think of why someone would decide to make dorms without air conditioning, and the first thing that came to my mind was money. I’m positive that Tech saves thousands among thousands of dollars from not having to pay for AC. I can understand wanting to save money, but if they’re going to do that, at least have it make sense. College kids will survive not having AC in their dorms, but why would you not have it in a gym where people are hot and sweating? War Memorial hall is the gym without AC, and I wonder how people can work out there? When you’re physically exhausting yourself you want to be in a nice cool environment so you don’t pass out from the heat. Even with that fact, people still go there so they must have a system that works, but I myself can’t comprehend it.

Anyway as the days go on I’m glad that summer is almost over, because I’m excited for the cool, crisp, fall weather.