Above is the road leading to most of my classes. Yes, I know, not very exciting. That building in the distance on the left is the Science II building, where Corey and I have our geology lab.
This is the building I spend most of my time in: Engineering East. In fact, as I am typing this, I am located on the third floor of this building - you can see it in the picture. I am actually looking out those windows on the third floor right now!
While this looks like a picture of a patchy grass lawn, it looks like the staging grounds for the surveying lab to me!
The sign in front of the Engineering East building.
Some of the past year's concrete canoes. Each year, Fresno State makes one and enters it into a competition. And yes, they do float (however poorly)!
Quite the dismal-looking hallway, isn't it? This is actually the third floor of the Engineering East building, where all the computer labs are located. The last door on the right is where I am right now. If you go straight and turn left down the hallway at the end, you'll end up in front of my AutoCAD classroom.
Well, I turned left, and ended up right here. This is the classroom where I do all sorts of cool things with AutoCAD!
After visiting the Engineering East building, I exited and took this picture. This building is where I do my intro to Civil Engineering class. And yes, the inside of the building looks just as dreary as the outside of it does.
And here is the famous Madden Library! This building is the biggest one on campus! You can see that there are three floors, but you can't see that there is also a basement below, for a total of 4 floors full of books!
Here is another picture, where you can see how far back the building goes.
I walked down to the basement to take some pictures of the books, since the basement has the most books of all the other floors (over 1,000,000). The bookshelves, to conserve space, are moveable and are stuck right next to each other. I positioned the bookshelves in such a way that I was able to take the picture below from one end of the basement to the other.
Here you can see the sheer volume of the books in the library - imagine about 20 times this amount in just the basement alone!
The Learning Center (tutoring) is located in the basement, so I went and said hi to Corey, who was tutoring a student at that moment.
Your eyes do not deceive you - they have a Steinway grand right in the middle of the library. I've been tempted to go and play it, but I'm not sure that I'm allowed to :| It's right there and usually uncovered, so it seems like it is, but I don't want to do something I'm not supposed to, so I've let it sit there so far.
Finally - while this looks like an ugly portion of McLane Hall (which it is), I took a picture of it because located on the second floor in that portion of building that is separate from the main portion is the Smittcamp Honors College office. I visit there on occasion to print things off (and take the free food there!)
So there you have it! I hope you enjoyed my little tour.
Casey
Yes, wonderful picture of me =P Hopefully I don't look like that all of the time. It is cool how many books are down in the basement. I've tried experimenting a couple times to see if I can squish myself in between them by sending one moving and then walking in the end, but the sensors always catch me. Ah well, I supppppose it's for the best. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting all of those pictures up so we can see where and a little bit of what you and Corey do! I like how you took a picture of the building you were in at the very moment of posting this:).
ReplyDeleteNow I know what the classroom looks like where you do your AutoCAD! Very cool!
You should ask if you can play the Grand Steinway! There will not be many opportunities to play a piano that amazing. Even with its cover on, it looks irresistible!
Corey-Yes, I'm sure it is for the best that the bookshelves aren't "working" for you. More than likely, the Smittcamp Honors College office isn't interested in serving Corey pancakes:P. Also, don't you know that you aren't supposed to fool around in the library? Hehehe
Kels
Case, Great pictures. I disagree, though, about one thing... I don't think most of them are dreary or dismal. The library is fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kelsey. I think you should ask if you can play the Steinway, too.
Take care. See you soon.
~meems