There are paths on campus woven between dorm buildings. At some point along one of these paths there exists a staircase that might have been designed by a civil engineer who was angry at the world. It isn’t so much a staircase as it is a series of overlapping cement slabs. It’s more likely to…
The sprinklers are out in full force today on upper campus. I had to dodge and strategically time my passing of a good many on my way to work.
What I love most about my university campus is the bell toll. The fifteen minute melodies sound pleasant enough, but it’s the hourly chimes that make it great. So sinister. They’ve made some wood chip walking paths near the flag poles and greenery. But still I sometimes walk on the grass because it’s the most…
There are a handful of squeak doors on campus that scream at a remarkably high frequency. It’s actually painful to walk through them because the waveform rapes my eardrum. And yet, people continue to use them instead of choosing adjacent non-squeaking doors. Of course, the non-squeaking doors are also used, but I had hoped that…
While I was on the Boston campus I was often witness to empty cars parked near campus buildings with distress lights blinking. It’s tempting to believe that this was a precautionary measure taken by the driver to indicate to the university police that “yes officer, I know I’m parked illegally but as you can see…
During last semester’s finals week at breakfast one morning things were quiet. Most kids, myself included, studied their notebooks at the tables, in preparation for the 8 a.m. final exam. Cramming data into temporarily hungry but always nauseous minds, which will promptly puke up the information along with some boos the coming evening.
In all the landscaped grass areas on campus there are these tiny signs stuck into the ground resembling the kinds of flower identification cards you would expect to find in a greenhouse. Except these signs are bright yellow with black ink printed: CAUTION Pesticide Application Keep Off. There is also a diagram (in the style…