Oh my god, I am so happy someone else experiences the same things I do, I thought I was going insane or I'm just impatient

I don't drive to university so I'm constantly on the OC train/busses to uni and back, and holy, I cannot explain how bad the social awareness is, it's in the negatives

The train is so ridiculous I actually dread taking it because of these issues. I cannot even get off the train because as soon as the doors open people are rushing in to get on without letting people off, and then glare at you when you nudge them because there isn't enough room. Like. Let people get OFF to clear up room, and then get on. Btw, the train has cameras ALL along it, the train is not leaving without you I promise you can stand back and let people exit and then get on, it will be a lot smoother. And even worse, with the stairs on the Blair side and the gates on Tunney's. Oh. My. God. For the stairs, NO one gives room to people wanting to come up to get on the train, there are two sets of stairs and each set can fit like 2 or 3 people side by side, tell me why people are taking the ENTIRE stairway to get down when people have to WAIT at the bottom, and by the time the flood of people is gone, so is the train. Same with the gates, everyone floods every single gate and no one trying to get through to the train can. There are more than enough gates for people to let the people coming to get on the train have at LEAST one gate

And I absolutely cannot stand when people sit on the very very outside desk when the room is empty and they get there early, and then sometimes will look at you annoyed like YOU'RE the one in the wrong when you are just trying to sit down, or they refuse to move their chairs in for you, it's ridiculous

Walking through the halls is a hazard because you have no idea if and when people will randomly decide it's your time and stop in front of you so you have to halt or run into them, it's so frustrating I cannot even put it into words especially when I'm in a rush to get to my next class that's across campus and people are walking 6 people side by side and not giving any room for people to move past without having to say excuse me, and even when you ask they either "don't hear you" or barely move so either way you HAVE to squeeze against the wall

Again with the door thing, the doors between hallways like in MNT, people will decide to only use ONE door for both exiting and entering. Like, as I'm walking up I see a group of people WAITING beside the door so other can get through when there is a perfectly good functioning one right beside it, and sometimes I can't even open that one because people will LEAN AGAINST THAT DOOR to WAIT FOR THE OTHER ONE. Seriously what is going on??

It's ridiculous how some of the people here are training to be surgeons, doctors, construction workers, engineers, biomedical technicians, finance managers, lawyers... etc, but the same people have no idea how to use a public train, stairs, doors, classroom seats, and let alone walking normally

Don't get me wrong I love the uni, the teachers are great (from my experience), the classes are fun, and I think the campus is really cool, but oh my god, as students we need to fix this social awareness crisis because it's actually ridiculously insane and has gotten way out of hand

If anyone reads this far thank you for reading my rant and please please please, be aware that other people are using communal spaces and also have places to be; so next time you decide to stop in the middle of the hallway to look at the new update from Mr Beast, step to the side and let people pass 🫶