By TIFFANY GONZALEZ
STAFF WRITER
Rutgers sophomore Claire Igarteburu quickly looked at the Rutgers University Nextbus.com and, in five minutes, she immediately left her apartment.
She quickly approached the bus stop but she found the bus leaving; frustrated, she cursed at the bus.
Thanks to Nextbus, she waited at the bus stop for 10 minutes when she could have waited inside her warm apartment.
“Nextbus sucks,” Igarteburu said. “I’m so tired of running for buses that end up leaving me.”
Igarteburu is just one of the many students at Rutgers who feel that the Rutgers bus system can waste a lot of the students’ time.
“What’s the point of Nextbus if the buses will end up leaving us once we get there,” Igarteburu said. “The bus system at Rutgers is so retarded, I end up wasting more time waiting for the bus than an entire class period.”
Many students say that when traveling from one campus to another, a half hour to an hour must be taken out of their schedules to travel.
“Buses during rush hour? Now don’t get me started,” said junior Kristina Reveron when I asked her for some comments on the bus system.
“It is really an annoying situation because I personally don’t have that kind of time to be wasting every time I have to use the bus,” Igarteburu said.
Junior Tahja Carroll has always had to deal with taking the bus during rush hour. Carroll has to frantically rush out of class to get to the bus stop because there is always a crowd of students attempting to get on the bus.
But Carroll is left waiting for the next bus with yet another crowd of students. This was just another day for Carroll; nothing new and same old story.
“This is so normal it’s kind of ridiculous. Waiting for the bus during rush hour is one of the most dreadful parts of my day,” said Carroll. “I just take out my iPod and wait, who’s on time to anything these day?”
For sophomore Ramathia Defreese, the bus system has helped her become more organized. “I hate being late to things,” Defreese. “It’s come to a point where I just have to schedule traveling into my planner.”
Rutgers is always having workshops to help students accommodate to the big university life including the bus system.
“Rutgers students are taught from day one to work on their time management,” said Defreese.
“I wake up at 6 every morning to travel from Douglas to Busch for my job. By 8:30 a.m I am at work,” she said. “Honestly it's all about scheduling.” |
