Its the same story everywhere, we just stop looking once something has been there long enough to feel permanent. Nobody inspects the thing that was already old when they got there, so the chain stretches, the bolts rust, the concrete pops, and it all sits until something falls off. Salt water just speeds up what neglect does anywhere, only faster and meaner. Two of fourteen still holding is not normal for any pier, that is a warning sign somebody decided to skip. Feels like the whole country runs on that same bet, that stuff built by people who are long gone will just keep holding.

Wait, the PROF uploaded everything Sunday night and nobody TOLD you? That's the part that gets me. Three whole semesters of hand cramps and 8am squinting when a PDF was just sitting there the entire time. I literally set a reminder now to check every course page a week before classes start because I am NEVER getting burned like that again.