right off the bat when i walked into my dorm for the first time the whole bathroom was infested with black mold and i mean absolutely infested. inbetween the tiles, in the bathtub, around the toilet, and now it's even growing in the upper parts of the sinkbowl (?). i myself spent hours upon hours scrubbing it and bleaching it which was AWFULLLL because there's literally no ventilation 😭 when i put in a service request to look at the cracks in the ceiling / near the window that had clear water damage signs at the beginning of the semester, maintenance literally just came in and did nothing and told us it was no big deal. fast forward to today me and my roommates wake up to a leak coming from the wall they said was "no big deal" lol... we put in the request and i do some further inspection and you can literally see there is mold in the cracks and under portions of the wallpaper that were lifting at those cracks. the wallpaper was soaking wet and soft feeling as well! maintenance gets here and tells us verbatim "this wall would only be a serious problem if i could punch it and my fist would go through" and then they just caulk it all up and tell us it's no big deal and it's raining so this has to do with the ac unit. mind u the leak was coming from a wall ABOVE where the ac unit even is so genuinely idk how this is a conclusion?? the fact they would seal the crack and just allow the water to keep collecting in that wall is also insane because yk damn well that's just gonna lead to more mold and moisture in the drywall and this is NOT a fix my god. OSU is putting way too much onto these maintenance workers bc when i told him i saw mold behind the wallpaper and it was likely inside and behind the whole wall, he told me it was beyond his authority (which i completely understand) to fix. but it's the fact OSU is only sending these maintenance ppl to deal with this when this is not even what their jobs are for.

i personally have been dealing with weird headaches and insane fatigue all semester along with a runny nose, sneezing, skin problems etc. and then i go home and it gets drastically better. i'm not a sickly person at all and i genuinely have felt terrible good chunks of this semester and am even having serious trouble with sleep. i've gone to doctor's appointments and everything and could not understand why this was happening to me. all of this and ohio state is still trying to deny the severity of the mold problem in this building and didnt offer to move us out as an accommodation rather than forcing us to be in a room where there is a pretty severe mold problem. this is actually ridiculous because you know damn well they were aware of this for a long time but just want to rip people off and invest as less money as they can! thanks for your negligence ohio state, i'm really hoping this doesn't have any long lasting health effects and this can all go away once i move out of this hell hole