We understand that we missed out on an entire year and a half of our education because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean the workload this year needs to overcompensate for everything we missed. Every student I’ve talked to, no matter what year, is having a very overwhelming semester.
The other day, I was taking a nap in my Vandervelden Court apartment to try to alleviate a migraine, when I was awakened by a loud whirring right outside my window. I immediately recognized it as the sound of one of Pacific Landscape Management’s lawnmowers going back and forth from University Avenue to my building–the obnoxious droning growing softer and louder.
Pacific students pay a technology fee of around $230, per semester. According to US News, in Fall of 2020 Pacific had about 1,758 students enrolled. If every student pays that technology fee to Pacific in their tuition, every semester, the total adds up to $404,304 and $808,608 for the year.