Dorm Life at KU: The First Year
Here are a few "highlights" of dorm life during my freshman year. It's really not all that exciting but hey, it takes up space. This year I am in a suite in Templin Hall with Mike, thank God.
Lovely McCollum Hall, where I hung my hat my freshman year. It is the largest of KU's dorms, with 10 floors each having 3 wings. I was on the 8th floor, which is reserved for Honors students. McCollum is lucky enough to have ten times more fire alarms than any other hall, and I was actually in my first dorm fire at 3:45 AM January 18, 2000, the first day of classes. Fortunately for me it was on 4 South and I'm on 8 East so I escaped smoke damage.
Our wonderful room. I don't claim anything on the right side of it. Notice any differences? And don't you just love my holiday decorations? Woulda been nice if my roommate would've made a comment about them, either "nice lights" or "take those crappy things down" but of course that would have required him to talk...
This is what I had to stare at every day. No, I don't know why my roommate liked John Travolta or Saturday Night Fever; again, asking him to explain would require him to speak. Fortunately Rachel gave me an awesome Lord of the Rings poster for Christmas that I countered him with. Above right is the man, my roommate, himself. I'll be nice and not disclose his name; anyone seeing this that cares knows it anyway. Below is the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, the church where I sing and sometimes play my clarinet in the choir every week. In May 2000 I traveled with the choir to Europe as part of a Jubilee 2000 pilgrimage.
