Most Depressing Place on Campus V: That Cluster Of Seating Between Pottruck And The Parking Garage

Time has come for this week’s chapter of Most Depressing Places (here’s I, II, III, and IV if you need some more suggestions for a good spot to power cry). This week we examine the other side of Pottruck.

These tables, located in the corridor sandwiched between the parking facility and the ‘truck, are the perfect place to sit and stare at four floors of people being more productive than you. If you thought you were just going to sit and eat some Hibachi from the food trucks native to this corridor, be prepared to feel crushing inadequacy and guilt for your life choices as your peers treadmill, elliptical and lift above you.

You might find yourself starting to consider working out. Two hours of internet browsing  and 3 exercise-routine Pinterest boards later, you’ll be left confused, exhausted, and generally disillusioned with the fitness-industrial complex. 

Feeling general discontent and a little too full from your chicken teriyaki, you might feel the urge to take a nap, probably in a darkened basement or your nearest gaping construction hole, which are two options cheerier than this place.