Building Hierarchy

Getting a laugh from my work environment is a reward.  This little fellow was sitting in a student study area early this morning.  It appeared that he'd lost all his innards, drained dry, nothing left but a mere wisp of a creature.  Perhaps that's what too much studying, work, or serious social life can do to a college student.

Fourth Floor - Heads of Something Important, Picnic Terrace, Inner Courtyard, Staircase to Nothing, Inspirational Art

Before work during the wintertime, I walk laps and climb the stairs of my building for exercise.  There is an interesting hierarchy of layout.  Those of you in education know that the top floor is where the English Department logistically is housed.  The only group that could possibly be above them would be the Law Department and they have their own building.  Above that is the Celestial Kingdom.  The pictures above show the surroundings on the fourth floor. Pictures line the halls of very important things that are from somewhere very important that should be remembered because of their massive importance to this very important department.  On this floor there are two mystery staircases in each of two corners that lead to nowhere.  When I walk there, I do a turn-around and head back down.  Wait a minute....perhaps that's the door to the Celestial Kingdom.

Third Floor - Spiral Staircase in the Museum of Education, View of My Foot Climbing 16 flights, Museum

A profound sense of adventure is felt as one circles the third floor, home to the Foreign Languages Department.  Each hallway echos with audible verbiage which reminds me that much better attention should have been paid by a certain red-headed student to Madame Christopherson, the junior high French class commandant at Lincoln Junior High.  A substantial paper loss was marked in history as reams of paper airplanes drifted out the window, down past Mr. Baugh's and Mr. Briggs' offices.  Sigh...memories...

The second floor is where the history, psychology, sociology, and family sciences are found.  No pictures for that area, but a note added that the flights of stairs increase from 2 flights per floor to 4 flights thus accommodating large lecture halls found on the first and basement levels, with an additional 2 flights into the lower parking garage.

The first floor surrounds the courtyard, which many argue should have been filled in with additional parking to lessen the length of the one-mile walk to the building if you don't get a parking spot.

The basement is where awesome fresh-bread fragrances originate, prompting a cacophony of stomach growls as realization hits the occupants of their disregard for the importance of breakfast.  And that's how we real them in...400 students per semester.