The apathy of the students on my campus truly amazes me at times. It’s hard to get people involved in any campus events, to get them to participate in anything.

This past week or so, people haven’t even been coming to class. It’s been pretty empty everywhere (though not empty enough to make finding parking a relatively painless affair).

In any case, some examples:

*Thursday was National Coming Out Day, and the LGBT office was giving out free T-shirts all week to those who pledged to wear them on campus. Naturally I got one. However, during the entire day, I only saw one other person wearing the shirt. Even people I knew had signed the pledge to wear them on that day did not do so. I was very disappointed at the lack of support of campus. The LGBT office had also set up an awareness booth in the campus center, though I did not get a chance to head that way during the day. I hope they got a better response, though, than they did with the T-shirts.

*A couple of emails and flyers galore announcing the first meeting of a departmental club was sent out to the entire undergraduate department. It was supposed to be a big deal, but only 3 people actually showed up, among all those who received the email. (There were others at the head of the club that came regardless, so the grand total was about 8.) I was looking forward to meeting new people in my major, but I have to wonder if it’s worth it to go out of my way to attend meetings with only 7 other people.

*A combined engineering/computer science career fair was recently held (as mentioned in an earlier post). Although the fair got pretty good attendance, I was told by one of the department heads that the reason they had to combine the fair was that, when they held a standalone computer science fair in the past, a very, very small number of students actually attended and it wasn’t worth the employers’ time or money. How can you not attend? How can you miss out on the opportunity to meet with people you may someday be working with? Getting your name out there more easily? Bah, people. BAH!

It’s really sad that so few students actually seem to care. It almost makes me wonder if anything’s worth caring about… but of course I know there is. I just wish more students saw it that way as well.