Tricky Buses

If you are anything like me, you would have trouble riding the bus. It sounds like an easy task but let me tell you, it is pretty tricky and I still have not completely conquered it. I thought that you could just hop on the bus and it would take you where you wanted to go, needless to say that did not work out to well. I never thought this would be one of my problems when I came down to college. You just do not think of these small menial things that can add up and take a toll on you.

The simple idea of riding the bus never crossed my mind that it would be so difficult. I had this idea in my head I would get on one and just tell them where I wanted to stop and they would take me straight there. When I would leave in the morning for classes, I would always see everyone just waiting at the corner for the bus to pick them up. I did not think it would be a big deal until I saw 3 buses all of a sudden lined up and they were all going different directions. How are you supposed to know which one to get on and where it is going to take you? Well, I got on the bus that said Ross-ade and I knew that Ross-ade had something to do with Purdue so logically thinking I thought it would just take me to different spots on campus that I needed to go. I boarded the bus and then my first hint was no one else followed me. There were just five of us on the bus so I knew something fishy was up. I kept riding the bus just looking around and I knew we kept getting farther and farther away from where I wanted to go. All of a sudden, the bus stops and I ended up in some deserted parking lot with a big stadium beside me. This would have been perfect if it was game day but it definitely was not. My first ride on the bus was a failure. I was just glad that I left plenty of time to be able to walk to class and I was just experimenting to see what it was like. After my complete failure, I decided to talk to people around me and see what I did wrong. I learned that there were three different loops that take you different places. I would have never guessed that.

For the future, I found a pamphlet that had a map of campus on it and showed where each bus went and where it stopped. Also, the pickup times and when the bus starts and stops for the day. I was extremely excited to have this and felt like I could finally conquer the daunting task of riding the bus to class. Finally, my one word of advice would be to have a schedule of the buses and make sure you know where it is headed first before you hop on it and end up in a deserted area with no one around.