Fun Facts about Baruch

All of the drink-vending machines are sold out of drinks! I’m thirsty you lazy bastards…let’s get going on those refills!

When trying to get through the turnstiles with their Baruch IDs some people who get a red signal (the machine didn’t understand the swiped card–swipe again) think that swiping their cards incrementally faster and faster will help…Then comes the look over their shoulder at the person behind them waiting for acknowledgement that it is indeed the machine’s fault and not theirs.

The escalators (that run from the 2nd to the 5th floor) work about 60% of the time. No one apparently knows why they don’t run during the other 40%.

Approximately 50% of male students who use the bathrooms in Baruch do not wash their hands. That means if you go to Baruch and you meet 6 guys and shake their hands or give them a “pound” or whatever you’d like to call it, it is likely that for half of them you’re basically shaking hands with their…well, you get the idea. “I think I’ll go for a hug instead Bob”.

…To be continued.

These “Fun Facts” are based on what I’ve observed and not on any other source(s).