Every student knows how stressful life can be during weeks with exams to take and assignments to turn in.

During these hectic weeks, many seek a strategy that ensures sufficient study and homework time, but also enough sleep and leisure time to stay sane. To walk this tightrope, our path must be free of obstacles and petty annoyances.

For me, this means that my computer must work, caffeine must be readily available, my work schedule cannot change and, as a resident on the penthouse floor of Stevenson D Tower, the elevators should work.

Most of these are not a problem during the busy weeks of the semester, except for that last one. Stevenson D Tower has become almost notorious for its broken elevators. From the basement to the 12th floor, residents are singing the D Tower blues.

“We pay so much to stay here, but the elevators never seem to get fixed,” said Luis Castro, senior sociology major. “They break down a lot every week.”

It is understandable for an elevator to get stuck every once in a while, but not as often as I have seen at Stevenson.

It seems like every day, one elevator or the other in D Tower is getting stuck on a floor. Sometimes both get stuck simultaneously, causing a major inconvenience for the residents who rely on them.

“I thought these elevators would be better than this, but they get stuck so often and it’s ridiculous,” said Ed Scheid, sophomore history major.

It would be fallacious for me to claim Stevenson’s frequent elevator breakdowns have had any major effect on my grades, but they have added stress to many weeks that already had a gratuitous amount of stress in them.

The week before Spring Break was one such week. On Tuesday evening, instead of doing homework and studying for midterms, I ended up getting trapped in a Stevenson elevator for two-and-a-half hours.

I was stuck so long because the emergency call button malfunctioned, so nobody received the call until an hour after I hit the button.

I then had to wait another hour and a half for the elevator to get fixed and start moving again.

The breakdown made me stay up later than I had planned, and I lost a lot of study time.

There must be some reason why the elevator gods treat D Tower so poorly.

Those in charge of the elevators declined to comment, but something should be done to reduce the number of incidents in D Tower.

It is simply inexcusable for two separate elevators to get stuck so often. Students have so much to worry about in class that they shouldn’t have to worry about getting to class.