Pay and Pray

For freshmen entering their first semester at Southern University, the housing fee has an approximate cost of 1,700 dollars. There are approximately 388 residents in Jones hall, simple multiplication says that 388 student and 1,800 this is over half a million dollars from just the housing fee alone.
There should be no reason for students to pay this amount of money for a dorm that doesn’t even have basic necessities including a functional dryer. I doubt that anyone’s packing list included a dryer, which costs about the same as the room fee. Yes the maximum price for a fully functional dryer is 1,700 and student pay more than that. The university has well over the amount of money to buy a cheap effective dryer. On top of having to go on an adventurous journey to find one dryer that is not out of order, the cost to use a dryer will cost 75 cents. The same dryer that may not even fully dry your clothes, the same dryer that probably won’t even spin, and the same exact dryer that will have students waiting 90 plus minutes for their clothes to be warm and wet.
For all that, students should just go to the nearest Wal-Mart, buy a heater, and just sit their clothes next to it. Every single dryer on the second floor of U.S Jones has an “out of order” sign placed on it. The third floor only has two functioning dryers. “Functioning,” meaning that the dryer will take your money and leave you with warm, wet clothes. This means between the second floor and the third floor, there are only two dryers that will take your money. Only two dryers for the 32 rooms per hallway, and there are three halls per floor in this three story building. Given the results of the dryers’ effectiveness, students will spend at least two cycles worth of money in drying. That’s the same amount of money needed to buy a snack from the lobby’s vending machine, which are always working. Also every cycle is about 90 minutes. In that amount of time dry clothes should be inevitability.
So not only money is being wasted, but valuable time is being dried up while the clothes are doing the complete opposite. One can even say dryers are like gaming at a casino. Put in cash to win some or lose some. This is the case because there’s a gamble with the 75 cents it cost for a cycle. All a student can do is just put in quarters, and hope for the best.