Hairy Humanoid. 4 Letters. Yeti.

So I’ve been aware for years now that Queen’s main goal in its existence is not to educate students, but to suck as much money out of the students as possible. Tuition, student fees, residence fees, meal plans, and letters to alumni’s families asking for donations are just the beginning.

One of Queen’s favourite winter-ways to get a few extra dollars incredibly annoying: over-salting the walkways.

How does that work? It’s all about the laundry money, my friends. The majority of those unlucky first years in residence have no choice but to add endless dollars to their laundry cards to get rid of the salt-crust at the bottom of their pants. The school has even outdone itself this year and has decided to use blue salt. It has now become impossible to walk anywhere on, or near, campus without giving your each of your ankles a nice, crunchy, pale blue ring. No one likes pant crunch. And it immediately denies the possibility of wearing the pants a second time before washing them again. Which let’s face it, we all like to do.

Now of course I don’t live in rez and therefore don’t pay Queen’s for my laundry. However, I have a landlord who must have gotten a Queen’s “education” or something, because he collects money like no other. He actually has me double-paying to wash my clothes… I pay my own utilities and yet the washer and dryer in my house are coin operated. How screwy is that? But alas, the salt gets me every time and I have no choice but to pay. And not living in rez leaves me without a mandatory meal plan (thank goodness), so I have no money for food since all of my money goes to ridding my pants of blue salt rings.

I think that’s all.

Except... I need sympathy for the fact that the crossword in The Star destroyed me and a couple of friends today in class.
Oh, and Paper Street Saints is a pretty awesome band.