<p>It's true. My campus is <em>huge</em>, and I often have several problem sets due every week. Because I'm extremely lazy (probably due to a low density of dopamine receptors), it's hard for me to work unless a deadline approaches. Once I wake up and realize that I have yet to start an assignment due on that very same day, I rush through to finish it, and then complete it several minutes before class starts (or the assignment is due or before class ends, when most profs will still take assignments). And then comes the big RUN. I run quickly, quickly, quickly. I run to the mailbox (or class) and back. And it's the easiest way for a lazyass dopamine-deprived me to get my exercise, since there is no other way for me to discipline myself. Hell, I'm often finishing other assignments or other things and the stress of class is the only thing that forces my lazy ass to finish things and so I frequently run to class even when assignments aren't due.</p>
<p>All between classes and psets, I probably run 10-20 minutes per day. For the average American, that's a lot, since it's actually <em>running</em>, the most intense form of exercise. And I even weigh less than 100 pounds. Even though I mostly lay around all day.</p>
<p>I hate to rain on your parade but I believe the phrase everyone is looking for is ‘… and? So?’</p>
<p>And I know people who run 10 miles per DAY, not just 10-20 minutes. It’s better for you to run than sit on your butt I guess but it’s probably not all that great for your sanity.</p>
<p>I gotta say though, the size of my campus has unintentionally given me more exercise. I walk a few miles a day just going to classes and such… pretty nice.</p>
<p>Same here. My college is MASSIVE, and I feel like I’m a New Yorker with so much walking. People are always talking about the freshmen 15…it’s kind of hard to gain that weight if you are walking 4-5 miles a day and on a strict diet.</p>
<p>^^ haha at the person who liked charizardpal and sauronvoldemort</p>
<p>but i’m quite flattered. Even if I can’t totally emulate the likes of charizardpal, sauronvoldemort, PMVD, InquilineKea, galoisien, and ArtofMind. :p</p>
<p>they put the math department on the ninth floor which i don’t really see why they did that, but i guess the administrative things just tend to be located at the top as a matter of practical allocation of building space. but why is it the professors and the students who make the journey to reach them the ones that are shortchanged. they encourage you to go their offices yet they put their offices in the hardest to reach place. maybe the professors have mailboxes lower down that you could drop things off at? i never heard of them having mailboxes though, i always heard to go to their office to drop stuff off if you needed to. and plus if it’s an overstuffed mailbox i’m not going to stuff it any further with my homework, that’s a sign that it’s neglected, that they gave up on managing it or got behind in collecting its contents. </p>
<p>im going to go straight to their offices. and slip my homeworks under their doors. but i look to make sure no one is in the hallway when i do this, i don’t want to be caught being weird. if i had any confidence i’d take it to them in class or go to their office hours, which i actually have remembered but just so i can avoid dropping off homeworks at those times and accidentally bumping into them. but they all say they don’t accept late homeworks, so i’d prefer to just turn them in discreetly then to hand them in. last semester i was getting to class before it started and putting them on the desk before turning around and walking out (with the other students who were already seated looking on as it did this) but i always felt unsure if he was really receiving my homeworks or not (i was never in class to get them handed back) and i wondered if students might mess with them, so now i’m just doing the thing where i put them under the door. but this is not without its downsides either. i got scared a few times that they’d be in their office and see it slip under their door and then call out and ask who is there and to come in, but i wouldn’t say anything, i’d edge away from the door and then make a run for it back to the stairs. but of course they’d see it was me when they looked at what was slipped to them and i wouldn’t be able to live the thought of that down for a month. it would just be this unspoken knowledge between us that i acted weird, until it took the backseat to new things that transpired. </p>
<p>i run all the way up the nine flights of stairs to get to their offices rather than taking the elevator. i don’t want to be trapped in the elevator with people and especially not any professors who’ve taught me, that’s my central fear about using the elevators, that i’ll get in and think it’s just me and maybe one or two other nondescript students but then before the doors close a teacher i know will rush in to join us, making the already long elevator rides one of the slowest and most uncomfortable passages of time in my life.</p>
<p>sometimes im lightheaded nearing to the top, so i take a rest at the door that leads into the hallway and pant and catch my breath for a few minutes before entering. it’s like a maze up there too, so if i do get lost and end up walking around more than i need to, i don’t want to look like im huffing and something’s wrong so then i get asked if i need help. i want to look like i know where i’m going which requires composure. </p>
<p>i don’t always run up the steps but i at least take them two at a time in short bursts. (but if anyone else is coming down, which isn’t often but it’s happened sometimes, then i slow down before speeding up again once i pass them enough).</p>