As I complete various college applications I constantly have asked why I am putting myself through so much stress to insure that everything is perfect. Why I have spent months criticizing and changing my essays, even though the essays were adequately composed. The answer lies in that very word, adequate, the equivalent to a yellow participation ribbon. Everyone knows that ribbon, and the feeling of sheer shame that comes along with it. To be adequate is to never strive for something better, for that blue first place ribbon or at least the red second place. To be adequate is to simply move through life with nothing ever amounting to anything great. Those who are adequate are the ones who are forgotten by time. For me the worst thing to be called or have some …show more content…
So if anything would help me to become anything other than adequate, I will gladly work however hard for it. Upon my visit to the campus the first thing I noticed was the architecture, well actually it was the cold, but second thing I noticed was the architecture. As a native of the South I am no stranger to plant covered buildings, but the complexity of stone and iron works intermingled with the extreme overgrowth of ivy and other flowering vines was astounding. Everywhere I looked something different caught my eye, the sun reflecting off of copper plating, or the vivid purple of ornamental cabbages in the decorative planters. This was something so detailed that I instantly knew that if so much attention had been placed on decorative planters, this was the school for me. They had not settled for plain non-descript buildings, they went above and beyond for what they wanted. Simply by the attention to detail throughout the campus I knew that this school would help me escape the clutches of adequacy. As the tour continued I began to focus on the other people walking around rather than the gothic constructions, and I soon noticed no one even
The key to the transformation of boys to men within Graves Hall is nurturing by ushering a sense of responsibility and respect through stiff rules and policies. Each resident hall on the campus of Morehouse College is governed by the Resident Housing Association. Although the RHA implies rules to all of its residence halls, it is up to the staff within the halls to enforce and determine the magnitude at which they will enforce the rules. It is apparent from many freshman students that the rules in their halls are not fully enforced and Graves Hall has the most enforced rules out of all other freshman living quarters. ...
The University of Maryland names the majority of its campus’s buildings after the legacies of influential alumni and world scholars. Most would assume that the activities that occur in each of these buildings would be a representation of the namesake, however, that is not true for the Skinner Building.
This paper will be covering the infrastructure of Franklin College and cover some of the changes to the campus and why the changes happened. Most of the information this paper is based upon came from articles found in Franklin College’s Archives. My archival search began in the grounds and campus files. From there I moved to maps. I received many ideas from Ruth, the archivist, and through the oral history she gave me, I was able to piece together a topic based on the things I thought stood out among Franklin College’s grounds changes. Most evidence is dated, but there are a couple maps without dates. The maps can be easily traced back to when they were published based upon the information gathered from other sources. Another issue that arouse when researching came from issues regarding some accurate dat...
The 1885 opening of Bryn Mawr College, represented the beginning of the end for traditional pedagogy and campus design for women’s colleges. Although its original scheme drew on Smith College’s design principles, the boundaries imposed in Northampton were cast off in the development of the new college. Molded by a woman experienced with Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and German universities, Bryn Mawr provided its students with a distinctive blend of university and women’s college. In this way, it separated from the architectural and governance practices that had typified the higher education of women and adopted for women the academic environment, scholarship, and behaviors of men. Specifically, Bryn Mawr dissolved the characteristic architectural tradition of the women’s colleges, with its goals of protection, control, and subjugation—not long after its conception, its more egalitarian quadrangles were claimed in the designs of the other members of the Seven Sisters campuses. These educational and design innovations would not have been possible without the efforts of Martha Carey Thomas, Bryn Mawr’s first dean and later president.
Sagoyewatha commonly known as Red Jacket was an outstanding orator born in New York and according to many, Red jacket was a fervent defender of the Native Americans. Several documents assert that Red jacket was very forceful and extremely vocal when it comes to defend the religious values the Native Americans against the invading oppressors. It must also be noted that Red jacket was one of the most brilliant orators of his time. Red Jacket praised the Native American culture, religion and other customs. He eloquently reject the superiority of the foreign values s imposed at them when he stated the following “Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all; but he has made a great difference between his white and red children; he has given us a different
When walking through Boston's renowned Harvard Yard, one may scope out the mixture of architecture throughout its landscape. From the traditional Memorial Hall influenced by Romanesque churches, to the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Yard is like a salad bowl of architecture. Perhaps because I am a lover of Victorian style structures, or maybe because of its interior's beauty and richness, Memorial Hall intrigued my interest most of all.
The art institution I have chosen to write about within this paper was the Rodman Hall Art Centre located near Downtown St. Catharines. Rodman Hall, in my opinion, serves the purpose of bringing an art culture to a region that does not have much option when it comes to art institutions. Especially prior to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts opening, there was not many art centers within our region, to my knowledge. Then, once I got into applying to universities and discovering more about Brock, I came across the new and upcoming MIWSFPA and learned that Rodman Hall is under Brock’s ownership. Rodman Hall was built in 1862 by Thomas Rodman Merritt which means that this art institution is 155 years-old (“Historic Rodman Hall“). Considering the age of the building, it is very well preserved and serves a purpose of showing our heritage and culture. When entering the building, one of the first things I noticed was that the original flooring and classic detailing on the ceilings, both were stunning. The old and very large front door of Rodman Hall was beautiful and all the white snow outside definitely made it stand out.
As Peter F. Drucker once said, “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” Most people may think Drucker is referring to people, which is most likely correct, however, what if it worked the same way with buildings and structures? As Strange and Banning argue in Educating by Design, this “non-verbal communication” (4) is especially important on a college campus as the way a college is presented can be symbolic of the values that the institution upholds. On the Lehigh University campus, the layout is all on the side of a mountain, and therefore walking on pathways can be difficult, especially in inclement weather. The “functional and symbolic” (Strange and Banning, 4) non-verbal communication of the Lehigh University
Describe Red Jacket’s perspective of the relationship between the Native Americans and the European American settlers. Include at least three examples from the literature and notes.
Long, wide roads, small houses, steel fences, tall palm trees, a black Toyota parked at a yellow colored house, an abandon house, which looked like it was hunted, the front door was open and you can see from afar that inside there is nothing but darkness. The house was surrounded by trees and it was secluded from all the other houses around it. These were my view as I walked into an unfamiliar building called Thomas Jefferson Middle School. As I opened the blue wooden door and walked in the building, a tremendous chill came over me, which I have never felt before. The building was very cold; I started shivering as I was walking in. It was old and was not well cared for. The colors of the walls were faded and the elevators made the sound of
Recently, I was subjected to a tour of Everest Campus, in Vancouver Washington. To understand what I went through, one ...
The ivy clad dormitories and superb landscaping met anyone’s expectations for a New England college. Students and staff alike reacquired old friends and planted seeds for new ones. Sometimes, unfortunates became entangled with Shelly’s eyes, conducting an unsettling exchange of opposing energy.
In particular, what really stood out to me was how warm the campus was on such a raw day. The staff treated me as one of their own, the tour guides seemed to know the school like the back of their hands and could
In 2013, Architect Magazine, ranked MIT’s Architectural program #2 among graduate schools in the USA. As it builds up its prestigious reputation in Architecture, MIT has tried to inspire its students to be creative and fanciful in their projects through the unique buildings that they have on campus. The Stata Center, an academic complex designed by Frank Gehry , originally got a lot of attention, because of its novel appearance. Critics said it was a good act of self-expression, and its complex design was a good representation of the intellectual capacity of the scientists that were going to be working there. Likewise, Simmons Hall -a residence hall designed by Steven Holl- finally got the entire freshman class to live on campus, which was something MIT desperately needed. These buildings, among many others at the MIT campus, are built precisely as inspirations for their architectural students. As Thomas P. Hughes - a professor at MIT- once noted, MIT has celebrated their buildings as “expressing the inventiveness, energy, and excellence of the people within them.” However, it certainly seems as though the buildings were built solely focused on their appearance, as they have turned out to be neither efficient nor cheap. These two buildings have caused so many problems that they have not proven to be a good representation of the innovative minds at MIT. Even though the appearance of the buildings represents forward-thinking architecture, they nevertheless result in extra construction time, cost inefficiencies, and experiential and structural malfunctions.
We valiantly struggle to do our best, and pass within the necessary limits. Some breezed by on the wings of their genius while some studied day and night to keep up with our peers. Whichever of these you were, you worked hard enough to make it here. We are watched on by these people who have seen us this far, and will be there for us farther.