It was an unusual feeling. I strolled into the music building at 1:24 pm.

I thought to myself, I never really get to stroll. I was looking around for my friends, which I also never do. I had gotten a bunch of errands done the day before, and life … was good.

I passed the first front glass door, then the second door, and …

I looked back. No posters. There were no posters on the glass door. “Well, that’s just one.” I went to class. On the way to class, I passed the elevator. “What?! They took THAT one down too?!”

Every semester, the music school holds about 300 recitals. (My own average of 4 recitals per day; I’m sure it’s quite close). For each concert, there are posters put around the music building to inform the students/faculty/community of the details of the concert.

Personally, I spent around $50 on posters. Pictures, design, printing. And that was the cheapest I could find.

When I found all but one of the 15 posters put around the school surviving, I was not a happy person.

NOT COOL. This is the music building. We have recitals. People pay money to make good eye-catching posters that make people want to attend these events.

So where did my $50 go?

YOU TELL ME.

Probably the trash.

Mind you, I did speak to the Music Office prior to putting them up the day before they were taken down, and the information they had received was that the carpeted hallways were ok. The glass doors, risky. I put most of them on carpeted hallways, and I risked the glass doors knowing that they will probably get ripped off. When I walked by the glass door to see that one missing, I knew I deserved it. Then I found all of my other ones around school missing. Everyone else’s were missing as well. In several cases, I found someone’s poster for a recital that had already passed that I had put my poster RIGHT next to, and mine was taken down, and the overdue poster stayed up. WHAT?!

I called everyone I could in the school to fix the situation. I have yet to receive a concrete answer or my $50 back. Apparently the janitors had not communicated well enough to the music office. But really, hey, how bad could the effect of these posters be to the school? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?! Someone tell me. Please. All we need to make things as non-dramatic as possible, is COMMUNICATION. JUST COMMUNICATE. I communicated and I heard nothing back.

Communicate. That’s all I ask of people.

And my $50 back. I pay way too much money as an international student here to just throw $50 away. I’m not happy. Or instead of my $50, a promise that posters will stay up until the day of the event passes. A PROMISE. Or next time I’m painting my posters onto the wall.