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I don't know who exactly I'm posting this for. To vent, perhaps?
GOOD JOB
- Beds, kitchens (especially the dishwashers), new faceplates, and the rest of the niceties.
COULD BE BETTER
- If there's one thing everyone I know at Case has a lot of, it's books. Yet any kind of shelves other than in the closet area, where there is a single shelf (presumably for wardrobe) are mysteriously missing. This is going to result in people attaching shelves to their wall, forbidden or not. Other people I know paid for some cheap shelves.
- I don't understand those little "shelves" in the shower. One of them can hold a single bar of soap while the other is completely useless as far as I can tell. Still, the South Side showers had nothing.
- One thing South Side closets had over our new "closet areas" was hooks. Hooks are useful and versatile and easy to install. Like, where do I put my towel when I get out of the shower? If I try to put it on my doorknob it opens the door or falls off.
- Aren't these new laundry machines supposedly money-saving and eco-friendly? So why are they more expensive for us? This is stupid.
MASSIVE FAILURE
- If the only problem with the phones were sharing a single line with more people, this would be under Could Be Better. But there is also what I can only guess is a "privacy feature," where two people can't have the phone picked up at the same time. This means that if someone calls for you and someone else picks up the phone, you either have to go to their phone or tell the person to call back so that you can pick up. Or call their number. You can't say "I got it!" and wait for the other person to hang up, you'll just get a busy signal. This sucks.
- Almost everyone I know (including myself) has locked themselves out already. Also, since the card readers are battery-operated, we need to carry an extra card around that opens our apartment doors. (If they were wired into the rest of the system, we could be identified like normal.)
- So far only one apartment I've heard of has actually received the trash cans listed on the apartment inventory. If this were the only trash problem, it would be under Could Be Better. But where the hell are we supposed to put the bigger stuff, such as all the cardboard boxes and bags we used to move in? We've had a huge pile of crap in our apartment for the past week because we have to walk through two other buildings just to get to a trash chute.