This is the first building I walk into every morning that I have class.
(http://i.imgur.com/ztAm9.jpg)
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. befuddlement
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
(http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/7338774.jpg)
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
Quote from: Trevor on March 09, 2012, 07:28:10 AMit 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.
the only thing that's cool about it is sometimes i see cats akudood;
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 09, 2012, 07:47:48 AM
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.
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:
QuoteThe 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.
QuoteEvery 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.
i guess our courtyard and bell/clock tower are pretty cool
(http://www.verdin.com/images/slide/etsu-carillon-clock.jpg)
Not to mention all of the different national rooms inside the cathedral n_u
Those are pretty cool as well
[spoiler=Coolest things at the U of Wisconsin](https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQz_PzF3dOR7aMlLhAfHeVDwJnNwxJE-P05RTGqLG0ybLqMqko4Fg) (http://jokesprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Wisconsin-capitol-bulding.jpg) (http://www.findorff.com/sitenew/images/projects/RedGym_400x400.jpg) (http://photos.news.wisc.edu/photos/93/original/Statue_of_liberty96_10.jpg?1286760715) (http://www.peacefist.com/newimage/terrace.jpg) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/tODlPxhbGF8?version=3&hl=en_US[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/gnYCdKDI5hk?version=3&hl=en_US[/youtube][/spoiler]
Quote from: NDDR on March 09, 2012, 10:28:28 AM
Not to mention all of the different national rooms inside the cathedral n_u
Those are pretty cool as well
[spoiler=Coolest things at the U of Wisconsin](https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQz_PzF3dOR7aMlLhAfHeVDwJnNwxJE-P05RTGqLG0ybLqMqko4Fg) (http://jokesprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Wisconsin-capitol-bulding.jpg) (http://www.findorff.com/sitenew/images/projects/RedGym_400x400.jpg) (http://photos.news.wisc.edu/photos/93/original/Statue_of_liberty96_10.jpg?1286760715) (http://www.peacefist.com/newimage/terrace.jpg) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/tODlPxhbGF8?version=3&hl=en_US[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/gnYCdKDI5hk?version=3&hl=en_US[/youtube][/spoiler]
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. akudood;
I'm going to have an essay exam in the Jesus room and it's going to suck. [spoiler](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3290/2700517678_6f3c93abe7_o.jpg)[/spoiler].
and what's with the statue of liberty
the ralphs I go to nearly every day
(http://carstations.com/wp-content/uploads/531/ralph-ev-charger.jpg)
(I don't go to school or work there I just buy stuff)_
is adjacent to
(http://media.glassdoor.com/m/9736/icann-office.jpg)
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)
(http://colochart.com/images/photos/full/64.png)
(http://colochart.com/images/photos/full/65.png)
(http://brighamyen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/IMG_8627.jpg)
the Cool part: it's a datacenter!!
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but this is definitely the COOLEST thing about daily places I go
[spoiler](http://www.sportielab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2006_8_21venice_beach_l65.jpg)
he's my hero[/spoiler]
(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds-14/times-square-center.jpg&sa=X&ei=qGJaT-rjM4autwfUyKWGDA&ved=0CAkQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNEQGKQVJgx2G6UlFn2KmTmb2ORKbg)
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 cry;
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 09, 2012, 11:41:52 AM
and what's with the statue of liberty
QuoteLeon 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 girl;
I like it, you walk out on the ice and feel like you're in Planet of the Apes
Quote from: vziard on March 09, 2012, 12:07:09 PM
the ralphs I go to nearly every day
[spoiler](http://carstations.com/wp-content/uploads/531/ralph-ev-charger.jpg) [/spoiler]
(I don't go to school or work there I just buy stuff)_
did u join ralphs club and save
the girl that works in Best Buy mobile has a nice ass.
Quote from: Not Famy on March 09, 2012, 12:36:56 PM
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
Quote from: Pancake Persona on March 09, 2012, 06:27:47 AM
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 somedays I stop, look around, and realize just how impressive it is. befuddlement
You go to Pitt?
I guess the coolest stuff about my campus is that the whole thing is a National Historic Landmark, because about half of the buildings and the entire master plan were designed by Mies, when he was the dean of the College of Architecture here after fleeing Nazi Germany. And of course Crown Hall where I had my studio classes every day for two years, is a National Historic Landmark itself, and among the top 5 most significant modernist structures in the world, and possibly #1:
(http://www.checkonsite.com/wp-content/gallery/sr-crown-hall/sr-crown-hall.jpg)
(http://www.acsa100.org/images/CrownHallHB18506x4.jpg)
Of course I can also see the tallest building in the western hemisphere from my kitchen window so that's cool too.
Quote from: eeeeeee on March 09, 2012, 08:01:32 AM
the only thing that's cool about it is sometimes i see cats akudood;
this use to be true, but the cats no longer come around. but at my work i am able to nearly displace Myself from my body and turn it (body) into an automaton while Me(myself) can go into the deeper reaches of my imagination. it is Pure and natural escapism but it is mine >;[
that building is magnificent lawlz, it is like having the solar system as your back yard, very grand and majestic. you have to think about it in stages to comprehend the effort, and in an instant you behold in awe, the glory and the rapture that is that structure, i mean, holy shit metaphysical nirvana, what more could you ask for?
at school, there is a pond by which i sit at and stare at the ducks, there is a couple, a colored male with a mohawk and a white one. there is a fountain.
the campus itself used to be a girl's dormitory back in the 40's and 50s, and when i think of this the layout of our main building makes much more sense, the winged corridors and many rooms, the grand staircase. i imagine all of these girls in the morning waking up and in such careful order walking down from the bedrooms to the main hall, and then i imagine them in the most disorganized fashion scurrying about, laughing and giggling.
amelia airheart attended there in the 30s, and there is a picture of her with some of the classes in these long panoramic photographs. my god they are so beautiful, all lined up in a row, their while blouses, bonnet hair, blue skirts and gorgeous, full faces. it is almost painful, how they stare at me from the world beyond, behind glass and history, when i cannot touch them. but how they affect me, i marvel, they sure do not make them like that any more. those were some women, that generation had it good.
but the sad thing is, they keep all of these beauties hanging in the display room in the cellar of the library, where hardly anyone dare goes unless they have to. and who sees them but shadows and dust on the wall, where those lovely eyes stare empty in the abyss, and do not fall upon a curious face, who happens to glace a treasure from a world long gone.
well fuck all of you who posted pictures because those are all really impressive akudood;
Quote from: vziard on March 09, 2012, 12:07:09 PM
bougie
what does this word mean
but yeah after thinking for a while I guess this new building is pretty cool, I had a class in there last semester:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-J6wTlBeOGFw/TlvaRvdgkMI/AAAAAAAAHgA/VIrThYVGFqc/s1317/HLC-PANORAMA.jpg)
there's more photos of it here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/114040030269916224093/albums/5645282624881018529
[spoiler](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/422945_3200607728389_1061919983_3097102_1590199047_n.jpg)[/spoiler]
this is inside the building i posted before. this is right before the recent madrigal dinner, in the west campus cafeteria. this place looks beautiful from the outside at night with all of the beautiful lights.