Tragedy in the Dorms.

Ahhhhhhh. My RA is trying to ruin our lives again. It is definitely a tragedy of the Ryors commons. It alllllllll started when my RA left for the weekend. She never tells us because she knows we'll be even louder and crazier than usual. We always find out though from the other RAs or people seeing her leave with her bags.

Anyways, things got a little crazy this weekend. And now we aren't allowed to be in the lounge room on the weekends. An individual or individuals completely made a mess of the lounge. Everything was displaced and there was trash and pizza boxes everywhere. There was an absence of restraints and people in my hall used our common source for their own benefit and now everyone suffers. The common source (the lounge) is ruined for all. Everybody used to come back to the lounge after a late night and hang out. There would always be people in there and it would be really fun. My RA is a big party pooper, we didn't even get a warning or anything. She just took it away from us. Depressing.

I can think of a lot of events that have happened from living in the dorms that illustrate the concept of the tragedy of the commons. From little things, like we no longer have a marker to write on the mirrors in the bathroom because people kept writing "inappropriate" words/ pictures, most likely while intoxicated. So now we can't write fun messages to each other! Bigger more important things have happened, like we're really encouraged not to leave our doors open when we're not in the room because girls have gotten stuff stolen recently. You can apply this concept to a lot of things that happen to you. I need to figure out a way to reverse the "tragedies" going on in my dorm room, I want my mirror marker & lounge back!