The Main Building

Today I have been making final arrangements for the house I am moving in on Saturday. All the packing and electricity and gas arranging made me think, think about living on campus. So, I decided to make a series of posts about all the stuff I am going to miss.

When I was giving my application for the accommodation I new I wanted to live in the expensive Lake Side flats. Yet, I got the cheap high-rise. I am going to be absolutely honest with you, at first I thought that I am going to live in a s*** hole. After I arrived to Dalton I started seeing things from a different prospective. Now I see my Flat as the most convenient location to live. The best thing about me living in the Dalton Tower is that it is right in front of the Main Building. I can basically go there in my slippers (and some people actually do).

The main building has been my refuge in so many situations. If there is a fire alarm in the middle of the night because someone decided to bake sausages at 4 in the morning and started a small fire, I can just run in my slippers to the main building and find a convenient location to wait the alarm out. If it was the middle of the night and I needed Internet fast (KeySurf not working of course), I could just run to the main building sit in the lounge on ground floor and use the free wireless. If I wanted to go out for Coffee with my mates and we were feeling lazy, the main building's different cafeterias were my location of choice.

I can still vividly recall one midnight adventure. I was back from work. It was around 1 and I had already stopped my contract with KeySurf. I had just remembered that this was the same day as the deadline for paying tuition and I had been too late. So I just took my laptop and credit card and ran to the main building to access the net and pay online. I was running like some phsyco. I hope security don't remember me :)

I remember having my little snacks in Lafe Lago. There I fell in love with the Costa Late and brownies. The thing that always sucked about Cafe Lago, though, was that the good food was always taken for seconds and I always got the 'leftovers'. TIP 8 for prospective students: Do not eat at Cafe Lago after the rush hours, go there before that!

I do not know why, but I have always loved having little walks in the Main Building when I can't sleep, just looking around. That is when you actually see the small details and even hear the walls talk. Oh, the Main Building is amazing in the night. TIP 9 for prospective students: If you get the chance just have a walk in the Main Building during the night, you will be amazed at the people you are going to see and the atmosphere itself.

Now that I think about it all these thing may seem absolutely small and insignificant to everyone else but for me they meant the world at the time.