Deatrick Hall: Putting things into perspective.

I open my door and look down the hallway of the fifth floor.

It's Sunday night and the custodians haven't been in since Friday. 

The smell of leftover pizza and beer fills the air.

Cans, boxes, crust, french fries, tissues, paper plates.

A girl coming out of room 500 adds to the pile with another pizza box.

There is trash every where.

It is hard to walk down the main hallway because of the stench from the SEVEN trash cans lining the wall.

Unless you can hold your breathe for a while.

The littering inside this building is just as bad as how people litter outside.

Tampons in the shower. Disgusting.

The two TINY recycling bins we have are basically pointless. No one uses them.

The bathroom trash bin is over flowing also.

If you walk outside, another trash cans and cigarette butts everywhere.

       I feel like living inside Deatrick Hall, or perhaps any dorm for that matter, is like a symbol of our earth, but on a smaller scale. Students living here do not pay any mind to how much they litter, or let the trash build up. They don’t care about recycling. They don’t care if they are literally LIVING in a mess of garbage.  It seems that this is what is happening to our earth as well. People throw stuff wherever they feel is convenient. Recycling is put on the back burner, and before we know it. . .our entire planet will be nothing but trash and garbage, and just like in Deatrick Hall...we will be forced to live in it.