By Posheng Wu
Free Internet surfing, being away from parents, and staying far from commuters’ traffic jams: this is what most non-residents imagine as the beauty of life in the dorms, and some students have long dreamed of having a place in an NTU dormitory. But the reality of dorm life is a lot more than these things, and interesting or strange events sometimes make life in the dorms a little…weird, and things are even weirder if you happen to live in Men’s Dormitory #1. Most of the dormitories for male students are very old, and so is their equipment. Don’t talk loudly on the phone: in addition to annoying your roommate, there is a very strong possibility you’ll be heard in the next room, for the walls are paper-thin. Sometimes you can hear music flowing through the wall in the middle of the night, making you think you have encountered a ghost. Forget to bring your key to the outside door? No problem, all you need is a used telephone card. Slide it through the crack of the door and you’re in. Or just climb in through the window above the door. Can’t make it? Just ask your friendly neighbors and they’ll be happy to lend you a ladder. Thieves, of course, have the same idea, and the dorm does get robbed from time to time. There are video surveillance monitors, but keeping watch is also really important. And for unknown reasons, the men’s dormitories have no entrance guard. Anybody can walk in. So around the dorms you can always find taxis or even trucks parked nearby. The dormitories provide a perfect place for drivers to take a shower, watch TV, and read the newspaper. Furthermore, if someone has a place in the dorm but prefers to live outside, he can trade his bed to anyone, as long as they’re not caught by the dorm manager. You could have a taxi driver as a roommate. If you find yourself in this position go for the dorm manager and the illegal residents will be kicked out. Another weird phenomenon is frogs. During a certain period of time, lots of students bring dead frogs back for their homework. They dissect them and then use the bones to reconstruct a frog. During this process some really foul-smelling liquids are used, so at frog time the whole building is filled with this terrible odor. But don’t forget that cats love this delicacy, too, so you’d better protect your frog if you don’t want all your hard work to become dinner for a stray cat. Recently, there’s also the mp3 scandal. Police unexpectedly raided the dorms at National Cheng Kung University to see if there were any “illegal” mp3 files in their computers. Fourteen students’ computers were taken as evidence, and the next day a criminal suit was filed against them. After this, the BBS was full of rumors that the NTU dormitories might be the next victim, so students had to come up with all kinds of techniques to destroy the data or to hide their mp3 files so as not to be found out. These are just a few of the weird things happening in the men’s dorms. Want to experience them for yourself? Want to feel like roast beef in the summer or an eskimo in winter? Find somebody to trade with you and enjoy it! #Volume 6 Issue 4 a
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May 2024
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