Hmm.

My university made a commercial.


In this video you see dramatic and beautiful scenes, like sunrise over the bell tower and a full and animated football stadium. You get sweeping shots of the fabulous Tanner building (hub of our famed  business school) and the dramatic spiral staircase in the multimillion-dollar JFSB. Inspiring, I know. But during the shot of the science kids, pause the video. A group of three--count them, three--science students sits in a spacious room with actual unattached chairs and within five feet of the professor, who is actively pointing out parts of the brain on his notably non-1970s-dry-erase-projection slides. Each student sits in front of her own plastic neuroanatomy model, when in reality the two rooms of the anatomy lab hold probably that many between them, to be shared between six hundred students each semester. And do not neglect to realize that that shot is taken IN THE TANNER BUILDING. Science kids never get to set foot in that clean, spacious, modern, expensive place.

As a whole, the commercial reminded me of this.


Come on, BYU. Self-respecting universities don't have to advertise...or pretend they allocate money to departments that in reality have to shut themselves up in the windowless fire hazard that is the MARB with equipment older than any of the students.