By Amanda Mastrangelo

As a graduating senior, the day when I join the real world is quickly approaching. What life will bring me post-college has preoccupied my mind and caused me to be very anxious about the future. I’ve compiled a list of things I won’t miss about the University in order to keep myself from becoming to upset:

*True story
**Based on amateur scientific study findings

1.    The epic puddles

2.    The wind tunnel between Vander Poel and Enterprise

3.    Events Management

4.    Hofstra offices that have only one employee who can accomplish a specific task, and the fact that one employee is never there when you need said task done

5.    Inefficient, ill-informed and sometimes rude students working in the campus offices

6.    HAMMER LAB – Everything about it. To name a few: the seven minute log-in time*, print jobs that go missing, and periodically, no color ink and no stapler

7.    Having to remove everything in my suite bathroom at least once a semester so it can be “cleaned,” but really, it just smells like bleach for the next three days and doesn’t look any cleaner

8.    The mold on my bathroom shower curtain that was not cleaned during the “bathroom cleaning”

9.    The Post Office lady and her miserable attitude

10.    The Post Office in general. Specifically, the minimal hours and the fact that they need to take a lunch break during them. Also, the fact that they don’t sell manila envelopes, but rather you have to go upstairs to the entrance of the bookstore, go downstairs in the bookstore to where they sell paper products and such, buy an entire package of manila envelopes even though you only need one, walk back upstairs in the bookstore to pay and back downstairs in the Student Center to the Post Office, then wait in line again**

11.    Lackmann food

12.    The fact there is only a 50 percent chance that California Pizza Kitchen will have the ingredients to compile a Vegetarian Panini*

13.    Shortened hours of places to get food during crucial times like snow days, holidays and finals week

14.    Being given “to-go” containers without being asked, even though the University claims to have a “plate-first” policy

15.    Club Congress

16.    The big blue and yellow signs

17.    No screens in the dorm windows, resulting in bugs in your room all the time

18.    The Blue Beetle

19.    Public Safety. Specifically, being hung up on because they were too busy “chasin’ some perps”*

20.    The extremely unbearable temperature it gets to in the lounge areas of the towers due to inaccessible windows

21.    Unnecessary flat screen T.Vs all over campus that display useless information, including menu items that don’t exist, and waste energy in the process

22.    Not being able to get omelets after 2 p.m.

23.    Fire alarms at 3 a.m.

24.    I will especially not miss these people: Ian Johnson, Brittany Bieber, Sean Patrick Goggin, Audrey Chow, Bryan Lavetan, Blair Hotchner, Sarah Kerlin, Matt Lourie, Priya Wick, Jeff Seesselberg, Sean Emer, Bethany McNamara, Abigail Strange, Women of Action, Hofstra Rotaract, and all the other loathsome people I’ve met here (Just kidding of course. I’ll miss you all the most.)