Busts my hump: Wifi on campus should be top priority

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 I love to discuss any grievances I have with this campus by pointing them out as issues that I most certainly do not pay nearly $50,000 a year for. They are all mild, seeing as how I currently do not have any real or serious problems with this campus (but if I ever do, I hope they will be settled with a bare knuckle backwoods brawl).
But something that I did get several responses about (and thanks for that) is the spotty Wi-Fi connection in university housing. Although I rarely experience these issues living in my Ritz Carlton of a dorm room in Senior Hall, the Wi-Fi problem appears to be an exceptionally aggravating and pressing one for many students.
So to speak, it busts your hump to the point where a few of you actually tweeted President Casey himself the other day to complain.
My first thought when I heard about this was, "quit whining. It's just the Internet, ya pansies." But then my roommate reminded me of my own blatant Internet addiction that's had me by the throat for years. It made me rethink everything.
Now, let's examine this cruel and unusual tragedy. How could this happen? How does it work out that a university whose endowment of $513 million, cannot extend Wi-Fi just a few more blocks? Although it appears that I know the answer judging by the way I posed the question, I do not.
I'm just a simple-minded ginger with a special knack for calling people out on things. But I do know what the repercussions are.
I'm going to skip over the whole part about how the Internet is the glue of our society; how it connects us all and keeps us well informed citizens of the world. But I am not going to skip over the part about how this campus relies so heavily on the Internet.
Picture the desperate conditions some students endure: you're in your house on Anderson street. You have just buried yourself in blankets and snuggled up to your laptop to watch a movie on Netflix. What's playing? Nothing. The only thing being played for you is the world's smallest violin while you impatiently fiddle with the Internet diagnostics.
Since you're out of options, you decide you might as well do some work you've put off till the last moment. Well friend, may the force be with you because the only way you're logging onto Moodle or E-Services is with a tribal chant and an outdated technology sacrifice to Bill Gates.
Sure, you can do some work. But realistically, you can only do so much without your Wi-Fi.
So people in university houses, my heart goes out to you. As you struggle bus through yet another week of slipping into Julian at 3 a.m. to check your Facebook and promise yourself that after one more photo album you'll start to study, I hope this Wi-Fi issue is one that is resolved for you as swift as Taylor. You are most certainly not paying nearly $50,000 a year to be disconnected from the world.
Got something that busts your hump? Email me at maevemcdonough_2015@depauw.edu or tweet me @MaeveMcDonough and let me know.

- McDonough is a sophomore from Glenn Ellyn, Ill., majoring in communication.