Bugs Everywhere!

Bug List:

1. Low-income students are disproportionately ill-equipped to enter the STEM workforce
1. STEM education supplies involve expensive setups, such as glassware, materials, licenses for educational materials
2. UF student trails are not well kept and are littered with trash.
1. Not enough students use the trails and therefore are exposed to their dilapidation, to warrant student government expenditures on maintenance.
3. Solar energy is not as cost-efficient as coal in Florida without subsidies.
1. Lack of secondary markets prohibit market incentives for solar innovations
4. Autistic students still feel social accommodations are not made
1. While classes have accommodations for students with disabilities, student organizations don't often have social accommodations for these individuals
5. UF maintains exposure to carbon markets which prove ethical problems for corporate financing strategies
1. UF and the University of Florida Foundation lack transparent financial operations
6. Students (many of my peers) are upset over graduation being held outdoors.
1. Students of one graduating class are not well-informed of a previous year's graduating class' efforts to move ceremonies outdoors.
7. I can't own a pitbull.
1. Pitbull awareness, as well as general education as to animal temperament and habits, are lacking, and consequently, people (who vote politicians into power) don't have the proper facts, leading to improper policy.
8. You can't go into the creeks in many local trails around UF.
1. Lack of government action to ensure proper waste management because not enough students utilize the trails and are vocal about their educational, spiritual, and health benefits. 
9. Local recycling centers don't handle many types of plastic.
1. Students and local residents were not properly taught how to recycle, and as such these centers spend so much money on recycling the few plastics they do and cannot afford to invest/break into other plastic decomposition methods.
10. Textbooks are incredibly expensive
1. Because corn subsidies exist while education subsidies are relatively *gone*
11. This week was extraordinarily hot
1. Because there does not exist a conservation science requirement in middle and high schools which would help students understand how imperative it is we make actions, and therefore reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help maintain a stable environment
12. I cannot take all the classes I want
1. Because the state of Florida requires a surcharge on credits in excess of those required to complete the degree
13. I cannot recycle my shoes
1. Because different parts of shoes are made from different plastics, making it too inefficient to sort the pieces
14. It takes nearly half an hour to reach someone on the phone with AT&T sometimes
1. They don't need to worry about customer service since their competitors (oligopoly) don't offer much of an advantage.
15. Gainesville water tastes like reconstituted animal urine.
1. The Gainesville water filtration system does not filter out certain nutrients, only health hazards, requiring me to buy my own water filter.
16. It can take nearly an hour to take Archer Road from I75 to 13th
1. Independent intersections lack the communication to properly phase platoon traffic, simultaneously decongesting intersections and increasing traffic flow volume
17. Students have little bargaining power with apartment complexes
1. A majority of rental properties are owned by a handful of rental companies, predominantly Collier Companies, whose Director's family has several high positions in the company (nepotism) (also unrelated comment, but it annoys me)
18. It's hard to find gluten free places to eat locally.
1. There is no single list of gluten-free offerings in the city
19. The quality of customer service at the local fish store is very bad.
1. There is no local competition for them to lose customers because of bad customer service.
20. There are too many mosquitoes in Oxford Manor Apartments
1. The pond systems are not maintained to properly handle mosquito populations

Reflection:

It was very hard for me to come up with the entire list, but as I thought about things that bug me, I was able to figure out why they bug me: inefficiences in information. The greatest problem is that information, depsite being so accessible, is not effectively distributed. We are inundated by information overload, and cannot find the relevant info, or even find out what info is necessary to know. We can fix that by exposing people to the right experiences so that they have the interest in finding out the right information for themselves.