Thursday, September 15, 2011

A magical building

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Here at school there is a very interesting old library. It's about 5 floors with the museum on the 1st floor. It's a fairly retro building filled with matching (kind of weird) art. To one side there is a theater, and on the top floor a place called "the loft" which is an academic help center.

They go fairly crazy here making up "interesting" names for locations. Another example of this is "the pit" which is a room about 3 feet lower than the rest of the floor because it is tucked under the theater. The pit is full of old oversized art books and various other collections. The awesome thing about the library is that it's packed with comfortable (hotel like) furniture in every corner. Even at the back of the windowless archives there is couches, chairs, and desk tucked in the corners.


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There are two elevators in separate locations. My favorite is the industrial one that opens before it's actually at the floor. It is loud, completely metal, and has a counter that clicks for every floor instead of numbers that light up.

I have yet to go on the first floor, but this is already my favorite building on campus. I would say I have covered about 60% of this building. Many of the rooms are locked and full of rare books or other mysteries. There is a fancy meeting room on the 4th floor that looks exactly like office scenes in the show Mad Men. There is wood panelling, ultra-modern clocks, and lighting to match, simply unbelievably awesome.

Also there is a place called "table rock" which is a large flat rock on the top of the hill that looks out over part of Oneonta. It is only a 10 minutes walk from the campus and well worth it. I would advise to go during daylight because much of the trial goes through the woods.


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