Bryan J.
Yelp
I love this place. The campus is wonderful. It has the only Redwood trees east of the coast, and it's a nice little park like grove with picnic tables to chill in the shade. They just recently spent however many thousands of dollars on outdoor solar panel charging stations (where students can charge devices), but I still havn't seen one kid using them because there is no shade structure to utilize, lol, which I understand because of the solar panels, but come on, an average day here is hot. There's only a few tables and a few benches outside, otherwise, people literally sit on the floor of hallways.
Ok, caught me, I am here to gripe, so here goes. First of all, why start school in Mid-August? College of the Redwoods doesn't start back until the 29th! But Shasta College makes it's students come in the middle of the hottest month of the summer (15th), in one of the hottest places in the country? Aren't you people supposed to be educated?
Secondly, as I led up to previously, instead of pointless things that noone uses, spend money on things people actually will use, like shade structures on campus for one. There are only two such structres, and they are both designated as smoking areas (that nonsmoking students avoid like the plague). So smokers have a cool place to hang out, but non smokers have basically nothing. Noone even uses the outdoor auditorium because there is no shade of any kind, and delapidaded buildings (the old ticket store?) now fester mold and rodents. Tear down the old buildings if they're not being used. Put up some new stuff. Pretty basic.
Also, for God sake, spend some money on revamping the rooms a bit. The lecture hall in the 800 building is the room where important confrences and meetings are held, and the light socket on the front wall has wires sticking out and the broken cover on the floor, explosing a hole in the wall. It has been that way for years, and would literally cost less than a dollar to fix. Instead, now everyone that comes to attend an event at SC sees this, not to mention the students that actually pay to be here. Little things. Another idea, stucco over the awful brown rock siding on all the exterior buildings. It wouldn't cost a lot, and the white buildings would look modern and more aptly suited to environment than the brown boxes that still look like the 1950's.
And why does campus outside seem like a ghost town? I am literally expecting to see a tumble-weed blowing by. Bring back the pond instead of a stagnant concrete hole in the middle of campus. Bring back the waterfall. We have thousands of millions of gallons of water less than ten miles of way, and our campus deserves to have a few thousand of it for beautification purposes. They allow every other business in town water to water their lawns and bushes, so why are we are not even allowed to keep our public gardens going?! Green it up!!!
Ok SC, so I know I'm harshing your mellow right now, and I do apologize for that. As I said before I really love this place, and really want to see it become as good as it can be, and this is sort of my parting letter as a graduate who has spent hours on campus and loved every minute of it.
p.s. the speedbumps are unnecessary
