By Charlotte Ligtenberg

Disclaimer: Even though you may feel like some of these things you’ve missed on campus while commuting are completely untrue, you’re completely right in thinking that.

With commuters spending countless amounts of time sitting, standing and leaning on trains, streetcars and buses, or standing around waiting for them to arrive, they have been missing out on all of the cool and crazy things that go down on campus when they aren’t around. 

There was a free giveaway on Gould Street with no lineup

While commuter students were taking their sweet time getting their sweaty backs on campus, some cookie or cheese pull that’s trending on TikTok was being given away for free from a very loud food truck without a long lineup in sight. 

The birds conducted their daily rituals

As students were trying to look nonchalant on their train trip to class, hundreds of pigeons congregated around Lake Devo and began their rituals. They started by bathing themselves in the effervescent water while whistling the entirety of Sabrina Carpenter’s newest album.

Following this performance, the birds began loudly planning a coup of the school board. Or maybe they were just saying “coo-coo” over and over again, who’s to say.

The secret floor of the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM) opened up 

From underneath the enormity of the always broken TRSM first floor escalators, the staircase to the secret floor appeared. 

If you ever get the chance to make your way down these secret stairs, you’ll find a combination of the biggest secret rave you have ever seen (funded by all the money cut from TRSM’s student group budget). 

There are english professors “positively busting it down” to The Giver by Chappell Roan while reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, every single book from the campus library that you need to check out for class and Ted Rogers himself if he’s still alive (who knows). 

The Pitman Hall Dining Hall served good food

If it can be believed, the Pitman Hall food engineers behind classics such as “cold soup” and “warm salad” have finally cracked the code on how to plug in an air fryer and make an edible meal. 

Positively green with envy? So were we after a particularly pink lambchop.

Drake performed a concert inside Lake Devo

“Who’s calling that phone” you may ask? Apparently it was Mohamed Lachemi who got Aubrey Graham to pull up and perform within the middle of Lake Devo. 

Everyone was gathered around in pure ecstasy as Drizzy sang his biggest songs with minor changes to match where he was performing. These included “Rockline Bling“, “Lake Now, Devo Later” and “Rock’s Plan.” 

The “on campus culture”

Possibly the biggest thing commuters miss out on, while the mode of transportation they’re sitting in is moving like molasses, is the culture. 

There’s no feeling like being on campus in a sweater when it’s too hot or in a T-shirt when it’s too cold. Being able to actually go to a lecture and pay attention to something other than an iPad is a privilege.

Even more than that, we come to the campus for magic and we stay…because our lecture has mandatory attendance. 

A man wearing an “I hate rubber boots shirt” was wearing rubber boots 

WHAT!!!???!!! BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE???? WHY WOULD HE WEAR A SHIRT THAT SAYS…BUT HE’S WEARING THE…???