If there is one thing that is irksome to me, it is standing still without the ability to move. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claustrophobic and I do appreciate being able to just sit back and relax, just not when I need to be somewhere.

Nine minutes is plenty of time to get to class, unless you have to cross campus, then you’ve got a bit of speed-walking to do. On the other hand, nine minutes is barely long enough to socialize, so why can’t I make it through one hallway without running face first into a mob of socializing teenagers?

Okay, you see your friends for a short amount of time each day, but does that really mean you need to form a mob of people you always see–plus all those that you hang out with just because you need some homework? The hallways are crowded enough! I don’t need to fight my way through a forest of bodies just to get my books out of my locker, nor do I want to dodge every other person who is also shooting around these mobs in search of the quickest route to class.

Yes, I do socialize with my friends. I’m not some angry hermit who just comes to school and rushes home at exactly 2:16 p.m. The difference between me and all those other people clogging up our already too small hallways is that I take refuge in my classroom or my friends’.

By doing so, I am helping eliminate part of the problems in the halls, I can easily make it to any of my classes around East Campus or, if I had any classes at, West Campus. I simply leave my conversation where it is and walk at a steady pace to my class. No need for shouting down the halls to end my conversation, I can easily catch up with my friends again in 57 minutes.

That brings me to another point, why do so many people in the halls find it necessary to shout their opinions down the entire hallway? The whole school does not need to know how much you dislike someone or something—that is what texting is for. Let your friends know a last minute thought that way rather than announcing it in a headache inducing fashion.

I get that being that being social is the only way to get through the school day, but walk down the halls to you next class with the person or people that you need to talk to, rather that congregating with your entire posse.

Keep the hallways moving—that is after all what they are there for; classrooms are for sitting and for conversations.