The variety of temperatures in the building makes getting dressed a mystery.
Planning outfits in the morning can be incredibly difficult when attending Central High School. Walking from the history department, if you are wearing pants and a sweater, you are sweating, but in your next class downstairs in the graphic design classroom, it feels like walking into a freezer if you decide to wear shorts and a t-shirt. None of the classrooms throughout the school are the same temperature. Even the hallways have an inconsistent heat pattern. Down by the math department, it is extremely hot, but outside the English department, it is a relatively comfortable temperature.
These fluctuating temperatures tend to make me feel more tired in my classes most days or stop me from focusing on the class material due to being too hot or cold. Not only are classrooms different temperatures from each other, but on different days, they can be completely different temperatures than the last. This is particularly annoying because you don’t know what to expect in your classes for the day. It is hard to know what to wear for the day to stay comfortable. It makes it incredibly difficult to focus in my math class most days. Normally, it is a comfortable temperature, especially on cold days. It might be a little stuffy in the classroom, but it isn’t uncomfortable. However, on those days, a student opens the window. I sit in front of the window and deal with the freezing wind coming in from right next to me. It makes me so cold that I get goosebumps, but when I enter the English department after lunch, I tend to sweat because it is so uncomfortably hot. It makes it especially hard to get work done when you have a headache due to the hot, muggy classrooms.
The inconsistent temperature varies with the weather outside, too. In the winter, classrooms tend to be much cooler, with the exception of a few that feel like saunas when you walk into them, but when the weather starts to warm up, so do the classrooms. It is incredibly hard to know what to wear to school. If you choose to wear an outfit with layers, you might be comfortable in one class, but then in a different class, you might feel the need to take a layer of your outfit off, leaving you with a jacket to carry around the rest of the day.
If there is a way for the school to make the school a more constant temperature, it should be done. Temperature inconsistencies make it much harder to focus on working and make school feel even more draining.
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