Project 1

After today's class I felt better about our first project. I wasn't completely sure what we had to do for the project and now it's very clear to me that it is more than just a paper to write, it's something bigger. This project will hopefully help us better our community on the Kutztown University campus by solving problems that are issues for more than just the people in our English class. Our class had some pretty good ideas for solving some issues that we felt were significant on campus. I felt the strongest about the topic of issues in the dorm, most specifically in the bathroom.

The first point that we came up with as a group was enforcing the quite hours in the dorm. We agreed that a big problem was the yelling and running around through all the hours of the night. In order to do something about this issue we figured that we could talk to our building director, the CA in our hall, or the people at the front desk. Another alternative was talking to the person that is making the noise and confronting them about the problem.

Another big issue in the dorms is the bathrooms and showers. The main issue that we had with this was how messy the sinks are and how they have food, hair, etc in them. Also the toilets are a big issue in the bathroom because they end up not being flushed and also have things on them that should not be on a toilet seat. The final issue in the bathroom is the showers. All of us agreed that the showers have hair, feminine products, etc in them. Also in my specific dorm you get burned if someone flushes the toilet, so the people in our dorm are supposed to yell "shower" but usually people do not. To deal with these issues we again thought that we could talk to the building director, CA, or the front desk. Another idea we had was to talk to the custodian and see if they had any ideas for solving some of these issues.

Our final complaint about the dorms is the trash and how it is overflowing and there is nowhere to go with it. Some ideas we had for solving this problem was taking some of the trash out to the dumpster, and once again talking the important people associated with our dorm to brainstorm some solutions for this problem.

I am very excited to get this project going and to talk to some people about these issues and hopefully get some changes for the better.