Whats interesting about your school?

[kddani]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
[B]The University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning is the highest academic building in the United States at (I believe) 37 stories.

*putting on former Pitt Pathfinder (tourguide) hat*

It's actually 42 stories, 535 feet tall and has 2529 windows. It's the second tallest educational building in the world, next to a building at the University of Moscow (I believe). But those Russians cheat, because they have a big spire on top that makes it taller, but is pretty much useless.

There's actually a lot of really cool stuff about Pitt, if it wasn't about 2 oclock in the morning i'd find my Pitt history book. There's a ton of ghost stories too... I know that I posted some around Halloween time

[Lindz928]

My school is BIG on cloning.... They've cloned goats, bulls, deer, pigs... and apparently recently the first cat. Weird

The best thing about my school is the traditions.... I won't list them all here, you can just go check them out if you want. They are my favorite thing about the school.

Aggie Traditions

[MattUMASSD]

Originally posted by kappaloo
I swear my school made the Math&CS Building look like a dungeon/jail.

Your school looks similar to mine. Was your campus designed by Paul Rudolph?

[gphiangel624]

I go to Cal Poly Pomona for grad school with Bobby and I'll have to agree with some of what he wrote:

"at my school...if you drive down one street you will see cows. IF you drive down the other side you will see hookers. if you drive down another you will see a gang fight . "
True, you will see cows, horses, and even pigs, but I have yet to see hookers and gang fights... although, it IS Pomona... so I won't be surprised.

"my school has a ugly ass pointy building that points to LAX...for NO GODDAMN REASON"
Yes, this building is very, very strange. It reminds me of the end of the South Park movie when Saddam falls into hell and is impaled on the rock... like someone might fall out of the sky and get impaled on it. Creepy. Oh, and it's a nightmare to find your way around in that building as well. And I was informed by another student that a guy jumped off the 4th floor to kill himself, but didn't die immediately. Don't you think you'd go to the TOP floor if you were really that serious about it? Still gross...

"my school numbers its building instead of giving each building a name. on top of that, building 6 is near building 9 and 94. Each building is not in order...hence first timers are ALWAYS lost the first few weeks to class. "
This is by far the worst idea I've ever seen on any campus. Yes, each building is numbered, but most of them have no physical "number" on the outside of the building. And if it is there, it's either very small or placed obscurely near a door that you will NEVER USE. Bobby has been my offical Cal Poly tourguide. Thanks Bobby.

One other thing I don't like about this campus... there are 2 major freeways (10 and 57) and a highway (71) that border the campus. It is virtually impossible to directly get on either the 10 or the 71 unless you drive about a mile away from campus then get on the freaking freeway. There are a few entrances into the school, but only one way to really get out (57)... I only live 5 minutes from campus, but it takes me 20 to get home since there's no easy freeway access!

[gphiangel624]

Ok, since I ranted about Pomona, I might as well talk about my undergrad alma mater, which I liked slightly more...

- UCR (when I graduated in 2003) was ranked the 4th most diverse university in the nation.
- UCR is the fastest growing UC campus, possibly bypassed by the new campus at Merced pretty soon.
- Each UC campus has a "C" somewhere on it, representing California. Ours is the largest and can be seen from the greatest distance (it's yellow, painted on Box Springs Mountain behind the school).
- The parking situation is probably one of the worst in California, if not the United States. The only general (students other than dorms) parking lot is located about half a mile off campus and students must literally walk under the freeway to get to campus. And currently, that road is completely torn apart because yet another building is going to replace a student parking lot, so students are walking in dirt and mud to get to campus. Might explain why the mission statement at UCR does not mention "students" at all.
- UCR has no football team anymore (former UCLA coach Bob Toledo helped us win 2 championships in the 70s, then we nixed the team... argh), but has many up-and-coming athletic teams since we recently went Division 1.
- The UCR mascot was changed a few years ago from a cute and cuddly bagpipe-weilding, kilt-wearing bear to a growling, face-painted "Braveheart" bear. And he wears a kilt in some drawings... they like the Scottish theme at UCR... Go Highlanders!
- The land that was supposed to be saved for Greek housing is now a new residence hall with an extended parking lot. Thanks for the support...
- The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs holds a Bachelor's degree... and that's it. Many of the students he treats like children hold higher degrees than he does. For a man who is supposed to care about students, he holds the record for racist, out of line remarks, and ridiculous budget cut decisions to student programming... and a degree that is lower than most of his students' expectations. Oh, and can I mention he got the Director of Student Life fired a couple years ago; a man with a Master's, twenty years of experience working with students at UCR, and the man who had more respect for students on this campus than any other faculty/staff member? Politics can suck.

Although I do miss UCR, it's sad when I look at all the crap that goes on there... UCR used to be the molding clay for the UC system... so many high expectations and good ideas. Now I think they're working on Santa Cruz and Merced a lot more.

[GeekyPenguin]

My school has the largest freeway interchange in Wisconsin named after it.

No, really, there's cooler things. Like the 15th century chapel that we have on campus.


I walk past this every day on the way to class. The history of how it ended up on our campus is also pretty interesting.


This gorgeous church is also on campus, and if I'm still living in Wisconsin when I get married, this is where I want it to be.

We also have a pretty good basketball team. I'm sure most of you are familiar with them, especially those of you from Mizzou and Kentucky.

We have a highly ranked dental and law school, and used to have a medical school, until some "ethical" issues came up that made the med school decide it could no longer be Catholic, and thus ended the affiliation with Marquette. It's now known as the Medical College of Wisconsin.

This summer we have not one, not two, but three beasties on campus.


In front of the new Al Maguire Center (basketball facility)


In front of the new Raynor Library facility


In front of the new Dental School


I'm personally disappointed there's no Priestie Beastie in front of the Jesuit Residence, but what can you do?

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by BobbyTheDon
my school numbers its building instead of giving each building a name. on top of that, building 6 is near building 9 and 94. Each building is not in order...hence first timers are ALWAYS lost the first few weeks to class.

My school does the same thing. Every building has a number; most have names too, but most academic buildings are only ever referred to by number. (Kind of takes the joy out of being a big enough donor to get your name on a building!) They're not consecutive either... on main campus, Building 10 is in the middle; everything west of it has an odd number, everything east of it has an even number.

Not only are the buildings numbered, all the majors are numbered, and all the subjects are numbered. It is possible to describe your entire schedule without using a noun that is not a number, e.g. "I have 5.11 in 10-250 at 10, then I have 8.01 in 26-100 at 11..."

[moe.ron]

That used to be a psychiatric center and is not closed. It's right next door to the campus and the freshmen dorms has the direct view of that. I've herd that the State has given the entire complex to the college and they are renovating and turning it into an academic building.

ETA: There is an underground tunnel that connects all the buildings. It was shut due to various crime incidents.

[hottytoddy]

We are the only place in the USA where it's legal to grow marijuana.

[BobbyTheDon]

Originally posted by hottytoddy
We are the only place in the USA where it's legal to grow marijuana.

why the hell did i not know about this when i was a senior in HS?

oh well, I doubt Mississippi greens are as good as Humboldt.

Cali pride

[thermobryan]

GOD seconds that one...

[DeltAlum]

It occurred to me last night that Ohio University can boast of some of the "great" names in today's entertainment.

To wit:

Ed O'Neil -- Al Bundy

Nancy Cathcart -- Bart Simpson (voice of)

Piper Parabo -- Cyote Ugly

Arsenio Hall -- well, he dropped out.

Ohio University, bringing a little bit of class to the entertainment world.

We also have Matt Lauer -- but he's only a News guy.

[valkyrie]

Here's the most interesting thing about my law school -- there is a prominent alumnus who is pretty much worshipped by everyone. The largest classroom in the school is named after him and everybody loves him. One day when I was in the library studying, he walked by and he picked his nose and flicked the booger on the floor.

ETA: Oops. He's not an alumnus. He is a professor emeritus. I do not mean to make mistakes when discussing one who flicks boogers.

[CSUSigEp]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
No, really, there's cooler things. Like the 15th century chapel that we have on campus.

So within 8 years of Columbus discovering America, there was a chapel built in Wisconsin?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by CSUSigEp
So within 8 years of Columbus discovering America, there was a chapel built in Wisconsin?

It got moved here from France, as the history link says.