Higher Education
The week after spring break feels kind of strange in Arizona. It’s cold in the mornings, hot in the afternoons, there isn’t any home work due, no tests to study for, and everyone just got back from a good week off.
Spring in Arizona means that it’s like 55F (12.8C) in the morning, and 85F (29.4C) in the afternoons. It’s hard to judge what to set the thermostat at. So, because UofA isn’t organized enough to keep the temperature in all of its buildings consistent, some buildings have the heater on still, and others have the air conditioning turned on. The least the administrators could do is keep it consistent.
The lecture hall that my psychology class is in has the heat on still. My professor (a doctor in her 40’s) came in from a building that has the air conditioning on––she was wearing a sweater.
“Whew! It’s hot in here!” She tugged her sweater over her head. Now, if you have a room of 500 undergrads who just got back from spring break in Mexico, you can guess what is about to happen next.
“Take it all off!” Multiple people yelled.
Dr. Bedford snickered into the microphone. ”I haven’t shown those off for quite some time.”
The boy sitting to my left nudged me. ”Ironic, considering she was just lecturing about social awkwardness.”
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