1. You have available tutors
Camp War Eagle implied that getting a tutor for a difficult class is just as easy as handing over my TigerCard to be swiped for my third cup of coffee. I've never been able to successfully book a Study Partner at the library, even weeks in advance. I don’t think I can name one person I know of that has actually gotten a Study Partner either. So if a person actually gets a Study Partner, is that their partner of that subject for the entire semester? Would they get to see their partner maybe a total of two or three times? After scheduling four months in advance, of course. If so, I think partner is too strong of a word; that implies way too much commitment for this rocky relationship. Maybe it should be changed to Study "Just Friends".
2. You will have plenty of TigerCard money
I remember hearing stories about the end of a semester and how students would have to go to the C-Store to buy boxes of candy bars and pint after pint of ice cream to spend that last TigerCard dollar. At the end of every semester I look for that highly sought and possibly starving student, hoping they can buy my lunch since I ran out of money on my TigerCard in November. Apparently my taste is the Wellness Kitchen and my budget is a pre-packaged sandwich from Caribou. It’s advertised that TigerCards can be reloaded with more money, but does anyone actually do that? If I called my parents and asked them to do that, it would probably start a long lecture about budgeting and the value of the TigerCard dollar. I’ll never learn my lesson either; I will continue to mismanage my monopoly money every semester until I graduate.
3. Anything about the security shuttle or night transit
The lie would be how easily the two resources are to obtain, similar to Study "Just Friends". It’s true that the night transit is a remarkable tool when done right, but trying to figure out the transit app after hours is near impossible. It makes me feel like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting: trying to finish an equation on a blackboard, also known as trying to figure out which transit route goes anywhere remotely near where I call home. I’ve ridden the night transit exactly four times since I started at Auburn, and each time I was astonished that I solved the equation, proving that I’m more like Dale Doback from Stepbrothers telling his therapist he’s the night janitor at MIT.
The next option is the highly coveted security shuttle since its from point A to point B, unlike the multiple stops of each night transit. However, because they’re always in high demand, it’s either an hour’s wait, or they don’t even answer the phone line when called. It’s much easier to tap a button on Uber, pay $5 and get home immediately, than to call the shuttle’s number, wait for them to answer, tell them the location and destination, wait around forty-five minutes and then get home.
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