I had heard about some of the shortcomings of the George F. Curtis Law Building before I got to UBC. Mainly it seemed to me that the problem was just that it was a rather ugly building, built in the time when a bunker seemed like an appropriate model for a university campus building.

There were some plusses to the building - a few of the classrooms have nice panorama windows, it has a cute little courtyard and a rather large "interaction area" where students mingle. There are also some minusses, namely that there are no women's bathrooms on the main floor except in the library and that the vast majority of the classrooms aren't of the panorama-window variety, but are rather have an underground bomb shelter sort of feel.

And as the semester progresses even my positive thoughts about the building are starting to vanish. First there was the horrible stench in the basement. Then there was the sign warning us not to keep food in our lockers. "It is attracting rodents!" it warned. But none of that prepared me for today's helpful notice. "The Law Faculty wishes you to know that we are aware of the maggots. We have contacted plant operations and pest control but nothing will be done until after the long weekend." Sure enough, as I continued downstairs I saw hundreds of long, worm-like maggots lying on the floor outside our lockers.

I'm trying not to think about the fact that I pay $10,000 to go to school and they can't find someone with a goddamn broom to control the situation until Tuesday.