Annabel Pyne

Student Life Editor

The WiFi across campus is impossible to work with, irritating, and unprofessional coming from an institution that relies on it so heavily. The internet has been an ongoing issue for years that seemingly, everyone just accepts at this point. Students and professors alike will comment on the exasperation they feel when having to interact with ESU’s internet. 

“The quality of ESU’s WiFi should make everyone with the power to do something about it ashamed. There are too many locations on campus where using WiFi becomes a hindrance, resulting in the need for personal hotspots in common studying locations or classrooms,” or, in other words, “It’s f***ing dog water,” said Samantha Krol, a commuting Hospitality major.

Inside the classroom, students are facing issues with the internet where they are “unable to access material” which hinders their education as they “cannot follow along,” according to Kat Keating, a commuting Psychology major.

Not just in the classroom, but taking online classes becomes that much more daunting as students are forced to try to plan around unpredictable WiFi outages and poor connectivity. Residential Philosophy major, AJ Dilks, claims in relation to completing his online classes, “Thank goodness I have unlimited data.”

Students often have to resort to personal hotspots to successfully complete their work in a timely manner, or wait for the WiFi to finally finish loading. One student, Isabella Groves, an English and Secondary Ed major who resides at the Ridge, expresses her frustration about how she often has to use a personal hotspot at the Ridge because ResNet does not work. Or, the other option, Timothy Wenrich states, is to wait up to an hour at times for the WiFi to work

With how much money is going to school improvements, such as the new website upgrade, the university center and $1.1 million renovation campaign for the sports facilities that was approved just last week, according to “ESU Insider,” why does this continue to be a struggle? 

“It’s ridiculous that we pay this much in tuition and we can’t get reliable WiFi and internet access anywhere on campus,” said Deleney Hibbits, commuting graduate student. 

WiFi is one of the most essential services ESU should be providing students as an education institution that relies heavily on internet based communication and academics, yet it fails time and time again to provide. Most of these comments are the cleaner versions of initial reactions of my questions about how people feel about the internet. This problem penetrates students from across campus from many majors and remains unaddressed. How much worse does it have to get before the administration starts treating it like the hindrance and issue it is?