Beep, beep, beep, grumble, grumble, grumble. Sitting in the middle of class, trying to take a test. Driving through the orange designated paths. Arranging a way off campus. Construction is in every corner of student life.

While necessary, the construction surrounding campus is very frustrating.

With the new addition of the highway 78 light, most students take that route to get to the school, but for those who take the Brown Street entrance the combination of the construction and crazy drivers makes a disaster and near-disaster prone stretch of road. Many senior drivers are frustrated that their last year of high school is riddled with construction zones. In the 800 hall, specifically the furthest two halls, loud noises and movement can be heard throughout the day from the hall above.

As students we understand the construction is necessary for the betterment of the school, but wasn’t at least the hallway supposed to be completed over last summer? And then over Christmas break? What’s next? What is taking so long? Understood, that with every project there are pitfalls, set-backs and unexpected complications, but this is getting a little ridiculous. They take time from other projects to prepare spaces that can’t be completed until after the students leave, like the cafeteria.

There isn’t much that the students can do to change the situation other than have patience and try to stay out of the workers way, but frustration on campus is peaking about these projects that should have been finished long ago.

Seniors: let us be happy for the students we leave behind that will reap the benefits of all the work being done and keep a cool head as we trudge through the mud that makes its way through the wire fence.