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905 Maple!!!
freshman - neilson 8th floor, behind the elevator
soph-senior - cott 2nd floor, 208 (or 206...I cant remember...)
grad school- RPI in upstate NY... Lived in a dorm on a giant cliff, where one side was directly overlooking the 20 foot dropoff below. This was good when it was 10 degrees outside, because the kitchen overlooked the football field below, and I could watch the games for free from the kitchen in the warmth. And I was still closer than the highest seats in Tech's stadium. :-P the bad thing was that it was not accessible by vehicle and so i had to carry all my stuff up 5 flights of steps and across a field... and I was on the 1st floor.
Fr. Jenkins-McFarland,
So. Hutcheson, (living with the jocks was ok)
Jr. Pearce, (much shorter walk to the Elect Eng bldg.)
Sr. 1st year Caruthers #202, (was actually a good experience)
Sr. 2nd year Off campus
Well, in the spirit of LITEMAN...
Fresh: officially Hut 350, but was the honorary roommate of my high school friends in the Dungeon (Hut 137), Computer labs, Dawg House on Mon's and Thurs' for some WWF!!!
Soph: 5425 Shasta, Bossier... (TECH-BAFB)
Junior: still working on that..
Senior:... ask again in 5 years. lol
1 and 2nd qtr: Neilson 1110
3rd qutr: Cottingham 210 (or something like that)
Soph: cottingham 102
Junior fall qtr: cottingham 102
Remainder of Junior year: some old house on carolina...terrible landlord and terrible house
Remainder of my days at tech were spent at 1716 N. Trenton St...some great memories in that house.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
1st year: Cott 225 or something, i don't really remember
last 3 years: Cott 116
Those were some fun times. Except for seeing the building on fire at 2:30 in the morning when coming back from rabbs. That wasn't as much fun. Our room was directly under that room that burned so naturally all the water that the firefighters dumped into the room came through a seem on the floor into our room. We built this sweet aqueduct out of those dorm trash bags and duct tape to shunt the water out into the hall. It was the best engineering job I've ever done.
Fr - Hut and Pearce
Rest of the time - off campus - various apartments.
Grad School - a nice duplex 2br. fully furnished - only $425/mo. -
Ahh...those were the days. Georgia ain't so cheap...when I was in Atlanta, was paying $910 for a 1br. (unfurnished of course)
Wow, I was there during the fire. Luckily, we were on the first floor by the door. JL had to wake me up because I was snoozing. I was in my boxers and left my glasses. I still made it to my accounting class in the morning. What was I thinking?Originally Posted by UTdawg
i was there too... I had just gotten back from some coding at duckbillplatty's place, and was asleep for a whole 30 minutes when my roommate woke me up. I ran out of there with just shorts and a tshirt... no shoes, no wallet, no keys, no contacts...
The next day i borrowed a friends jogging suit, sandals, and glasses, and went to get advised. I had waited 2 weeks for that advising slot, I wasnt gonna miss out on it, because the next open slot was after my registration period... and I hate missing out on classes. Then I was just hanging around the dorm and got a fireman to let me in there to grab some stuff, so I grabbed wallet, keys, shoes, CD case, and my dirty clothes bag (since once that got washed, i would have plenty of clothes)...I guess I got lucky because soon after, I heard from people that they were getting turned away and werent able to get wallets or clothes or anything.
Then, the day after that I went to Baton Rouge for 3 days for a programming contest. When I got back, I found out I had missed the window to secure a room in Hut, and had to talk someone into giving me a 4th floor room anyway. Stupid beaurocracy.
Hut 4th floor was even worse than Neilson 8th floor. :-P
Yeh, I told a cop that I needed my glasses and wallet, etc. They got it to me. I thought the RPD or whoever did a very nice job in handling the situation from my perspective, at least.
I agree. They did a good job.
And I came away from it with a few momentos: I have a piece of police tape from the street-side entrance. And I have my letter from Tech saying "The official investigation shows something something blah blah blah you cant sue us, neener neener"
Yeh, I worked in the student affairs department and the official fire department ruling was that it was an electrical wire in the A/C unit that malfunctioned, so it wasnt Tech's fault. Nevermind the fact that those A/C units were probably the first ones ever made.
The top floor folks got screwed by the whole deal. We weren't out of our room for more than a few days before they let us back in. I just stayed with my brother in Hut. I did have to wash all my clothes and we had to throw our carpet away because of the water. Overall it wasn't too bad for the first floor people I don't think, Other than the fact that there was a tech police man stationed by our smuggling entrance all the time.
I just wish I would have closed my door when leaving. I threw away so much soot-covered stuff... And went through like 2 bottles of laundry detergent...
I'm surprised the fire wasnt started by the fact that we were plugging 8 million electrical items into one single ungrounded socket that was probably running on original wiring from 19whenever.
My stuff stunk, but there was no damage. I actually went back in that night for a few of my guitars. I left the computer...gotta have your priorities straight. I can still remember the sound of guys trying to break their windows with desk chairs...that was pretty creepy.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
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