Break Down the Wall of Smoke

Now Hunter College is a great college. It’s already been established that there are “cool” students, teachers, and classes. Yet how about the not so cool elements. Think hard…Well, on my first day I was greeted with smoke. A whole wall of it in front of the Hunter West entrance. I figured that was the designated zone to smoke, but after all my classes were finished I exited through the Hunter North building and was waved farewell by another group of smokers. I never knew that this many students smoked. At Hunter there are about 15,718 under-grads, my question is how many resort to smoking? I know I sound like a nagger but why would anyone smoke. Not only does it hurt your body, this part I could care less about. It’s your body so do what you want to it. My problem is when I’m walking and someone blows a huge cloud of smoke right in my face. That has to be the most annoying thing in the world. A study in 2006 showed that at least one in five college students smoke. That is way too high. A lot of my friends throughout High School smoked. I always thought that once I got to college that would be a thing of the past, but now that I see that every person is at least 18 and can smoke there is much more of it. Out of my entire 3 weeks of college experiences, this is my only complaint. Maybe they should set an area where students can go to smoke like they do at Shea Stadium. My media studies professor, Robert Stanley, told me that years ago students used to smoke in classrooms! That is absurd and thank god they got rid of it. Still, despite the walls of smoke greeting you and saying farewell to you, Hunter college is a great college and I am very glad that I not only got accepted, but attended it.