University: Lack of Sleep and Overcrowded Buses

My average summer work week consisted of me getting about five hours of sleep on a weeknight and heading off to the grind for 7.5 hours. But when the prospect of getting only four hours of sleep leading into a 10+ hour day in the middle of the week comes around, you know undoubtedly what time it is.

It's that time of year again folks. University is back in session for the Fall and shit is already hitting the fan. My first day was a 12 hour annoyance fest, mainly plagued by the boredom I experienced when I actually had breaks in between classes. As if having class from 8AM to 8PM wasn't bad enough.

Have to hand it to the University though, the U-Pass is an amazing piece of work. And by amazing piece of work I mean it's slowly causing almost every bus in the city to be overcrowded, at pretty much every hour of the day - even the STO.

I can only imagine how pissed off the 30-40 people we zipped by on our way out of town felt like when they realized they'd have to wait another 30 minutes to an hour for the next bus to come by.

Let's just give 30,000 kids a piece of plastic that lets them take any bus they want, at anytime and not worry about the fact that the transit system will obviously need to increase the number of buses on the routes, to make up for the sudden influx.