There’s something magical about the scenery that surrounds our humble learning institute. When students first arrive on the campus, they are greeted with a fortress-like feeling, as if the multitude of majestic trees are protecting us with the school secure in the middle. On certain days this euphoria is intensified with the fog rolling over from the coast, engulfing our campus like a blanket. And once you enter the premises, you are greeted by the sudden and instantaneous view of a rather dirty construction site.

Yes, we’ve made it through the first month of school and construction is still going on. Although it isn’t as bad as the first day of school, when students had to carefully walk across planks laid out next to chain link fences, it still has given the campus a feeling that you can’t go to class unless you’re wearing a hard hat.

What bothers us the most about the construction isn’t the construction itself, but rather the immediate changes that construction has had on our campus. We don’t mind the new additions to our campus which the construction will give birth to as a little change in scenery never hurt anybody. Like most others, we are worried about how long the construction will last although we’re surprised at how fast things are progressing. However, our main concern is this: When will Skyline start seeing green again?

The construction could end tomorrow but it won’t be satisfying if it doesn’t look like the way it used to; a campus full of trees, bushes and grass. From what we could gather from the construction workers, the people in charge of replanting our campus are from another company that will be supervised by the current company. When this might happen, we don’t know. Some people might not even care about how green our school is, or should be, as long as it’s done soon. But this is not an attitude to be proud of.

The new scenario is not very convenient for the daily life of a student either. As students, we find the construction site to be a huge eyesore; it is definitely not what we want to see after a stressful day of classes. And honestly, we just want to go to our next class without the wind blowing dirt in our eyes.

It would be great if the construction were to end as soon with the best results possible so our campus looks like a campus again-which means having all our good old green back!