COOLEST THING ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL/PLACE OF WORK/DAILY PLACE YOU GO

[ncba93ivyase]

This is the first building I walk into every morning that I have class.



It's pretty cool knowing that humans built this almost 100 years ago with no aid from computers and built it over 500 feet tall. Most of the time I just walk in here and think of it as nothing more than a school building, but some days I stop, look around, and realize just how impressive it is.

[Snowy]

My school has a nice courtyard, and we have 2 student commons which are really nice to eat lunch in.

But that's about it.

[LCK]

that is a pretty impressive building


the school i go to was the first university founded in the mnscu system, i think, and it was the first teachers college in the state and i guess it has a lot of really nice, old architecture just like the rest of the town


this is the main building on west campus. lourdes hall. it is also notoriously haunted. something about a convent that used to occupy the building and throwing a baby down the elevator shaft or something

there are a bunch of other nifty buildings but i dont care really

[ncba93ivyase]

it is also notoriously haunted. something about a convent that used to occupy the building and throwing a baby down the elevator shaft or something

wat

The dorm I live in was part of the hospital back in the 1950s. It still has 50 year old signs painted on the walls and it gives the building a very creepy feeling.

[piano moths]

the only thing that's cool about it is sometimes i see cats 

[LCK]

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The dorm I live in was part of the hospital back in the 1950s. It still has 50 year old signs painted on the walls and it gives the building a very creepy feeling.

i don't know the story specifically, its just shit they tell us when we move in
before the building belonged to the university, it was some sort of nun house, and one of the nuns apparently went crazy and threw a baby down the elevator shaft. and according to "legend" you can hear the sound of a baby crying in the elevator, which is why it is the only elevator on campus that has a radio.
and something about a nun or some guy hanging themselves in the chapel, which is now the pool.
then there is some other stuff i get from a simple google search, but its nothing really that we were told about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residence_Halls_at_Winona_State_University#Lourdes_Hall

http://www.unexplainedresearch.com/media/legends_and_myths_of_winona.html

ohter shit:

The fourth floor used to be an infirmary for the nuns that lived there. Many people died up here and students say they can still hear many of them walking, crying, or just trying to talk to them.

Every one knows about the ghost on the 4th floor at Lourdes but the third floor is also haunted. People have had things taken off the wall pictures knocked over and turned around and posters moved from their hanging position and moved to the other side of the room on the floor. Doors will close and lock by themselves and you can hear people in the halls when no one is there

the stories that are passed on through campus are much better than the shit i find online.

[Commander Fuckass]

i guess our courtyard and bell/clock tower are pretty cool

[YPrrrr]

Not to mention all of the different national rooms inside the cathedral

Those are pretty cool as well

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[ncba93ivyase]

Not to mention all of the different national rooms inside the cathedral

Those are pretty cool as well

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The nationality rooms look cool but having a class in one is hell. They all have either stone or slippery wood desks with little writing area. Taking a written exam on a table the size of my hand isn't very fun.

I'm going to have an essay exam in the Jesus room and it's going to suck. [spoiler][/spoiler].

and what's with the statue of liberty

[snoorkel]

the ralphs I go to nearly every day

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(I don't go to school or work there I just buy stuff)_

is adjacent to

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the ICANN headquoarters of the World/Internet

which I thought was cool when I discovered that building is actually ICANN.

it's in a bougie ass part of town which is why there are boats


[spoiler]also i forgot about where I actually "work" (a few hours per week on my own time)

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the Cool part: it's a datacenter!!
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but this is definitely the COOLEST thing about daily places I go
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he's my hero[/spoiler]

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i go here dailly in the mornings
it's really not impressing until you realized how glorified it is then maybe but it never worked for me
it's really worse when it's summer

[YPrrrr]

and what's with the statue of liberty

Leon Varjian and Jim Mallon, both students at the University of Wisconsin in 1978, staged a mock campaign for student government. Calling themselves the "Pail & Shovel Party," their campaign was one long performance art piece, as they made outrageous campaign promises like converting the entire school budget into pennies, then dumping it on the school, where students could go at it with pails and shovels. Playing on student frustration with parking meters, they promised to replace the meters with bubble gum machines. But their biggest promise was to buy the Statue of Liberty and move her to Wisconsin.


Photo credit: Stu Baker

As their joke platform began to develop a following, it also developed opponents -- the student government was then run by humorless, self-serving leftists who didn't appreciate the pranksters threatening their rule. Thanks to the overwhelming apathy of UW students (only 12% bothered to vote), the Pail and Shovel party was able to claim 1/3 of the vote, handily beating the 10 other parties running that year.



Varjian and Mallon wasted no time in turning the entire student government system into a massive prank: they set up a "Dial a Joke" service on the student government phone line, and brought in their favorite musical acts and avant-garde personalities. They famously hosted a toga party for 10,000 people, a move which inspired John BeluShakespearehen the star of Animal House, to personally call in and bestow his blessings.

But the highlight was fulfilling their campaign promise to bring the Statue of Liberty to Wisconsin.



How did they do it? Constructed in a woodworking shop, they only created the top portion of the head and torch, then set it on the surface of frozen Lake Mendota. While some students complained it was not the entire Statue of Liberty, Varjian insisted that it was, but that the cables had snapped while they were helicoptering it to the campus.

Incensed over the $4,500 of student money it had taken to build the Statue, the Pail and Shovel opponents tried to have Varjian and Mallon removed from office. When they couldn't, they burned down the statue instead.

Unfazed, the Pail and Shovel party won another student election the following year, and rebuilt the Statue of Liberty, this time claiming it was fireproof. (It wasn't.) It remained until March, when the Department of Natural Resources required them to remove it from the ice. It was moved to Barneville, Wisconsin, where some say it remains to this day, a testament to the power of what students can do ... when they're partly insane.

They break it out every now and then, like this winter

I like it, you walk out on the ice and feel like you're  in Planet of the Apes

[famy]

the ralphs I go to nearly every day

[spoiler][img]http://carstations.com/wp-content/uploads/531/ralph-ev-charger.jpg[/img] [/spoiler]
(I don't go to school or work there I just buy stuff)_

did u join ralphs club and save

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

the girl that works in Best Buy mobile has a nice ass.

[snoorkel]

did u join ralphs club and save

ya i save like $6 to $9 every time and they send me special coupons with my name  in my mail