Water dripped annoyingly from a faucet, while a young lady fought frantically to sleep. After a rough test, an exhausted young man walked up to his car only to find another parking ticket attached. A student picked up a lunch tray only for water to run off the tray and onto his new shoes. At Harding, as in most schools, there were many minor details and events which served only to frustrate the students. Many of these trivial events were common to most schools, and were sometimes uncontrollable, such as a pencil lead that broke during a timed examination, a stopped up shower, a light bulb that flickered while studying for a big test, and an overflowing toilet. There were also frustrating events which occurred in dorm living, such as the screaming blow dryer down the hall, the blaring stereo next door, and finding your roommate has borrowed the shirt you planned to wear. Some frustrations were popular subjects among students on the Harding campus . The water sprinklers were undoubtedlyon the top of the list. It often22j Frustrations How fru:\trating times seemed as though the campus grounds crew placed the sprinklers strategically so as to water students and sidewalks rather than grass . Other frustrations were costly and unnecessary. Such was the case when some mischevious students decided to steal the silverware from the American Heritage cafeteria . Students found an unpleasant surprise when they had to pay 10 cents for the plastic eating utensils that the cafeteria had had to buy. The writer of this masterpiece was under frustrating pressure as she wrote. She was on an eightpage color deadline that if for some reason was not mailed on time, would have late financial charges. She had three tests to be studying for, to be taken on the Monday and Tuesday when she returned from Thanksgiving weekend, and she had two term papers and three book reports to write with only two weeks left in the semester. There must be a sunnyside to everything, but at this point everyone was too frustrated to see it.~ - Beth Fisher and Suzanne Johnston
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