Old Man Winter can suck it.
A look from East Halls at this moment
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The kids today have it easy. Back in my day, we had to cross Lot 80 (aka The Tundra). Which conveniently was uphill - both ways. And of course, we had no shoes.
Fixed it for everyone who has ever lived in East Halls. (I lived in Stuart.)
I remember returning to East Halls at about 3AM in February from the Arch studios in the Engineering Units, I took about ten steps out into the clear of the Tundra, stopped, tuned around and headed back to studio to sleep there until my 8am class.
I think they filmed the winter scenes of Doctor Zhivago in Parking Lot 80.
Pinchot to sackett for an 8 am class in February was not a fun walk
Your description of Lot 80 is too kind. Way too kind.
Fixed it for everyone.
A popular misconception. Lot 80 is actually Lot e^(80) and Lot 83N is plain old Lot 83N.
With the benefit of @LionJim 's edit...this was indeed real for me. I had an 8am Accounting test and was suffering with a very bad cold. I road in with my roommate that morning. It was extremely cold out and in the short drive from Park Forest the thermostat never opened on his TR6 so the heater never produced any heat. I was freezing as it was and when I got out of the car into that wind I started having big time 'chills'. I had on a Sears knock off of a real parka (it had no serious lining/quilting) and the wind was going into the hood like it was a vacuum and dispersing it all over my body. The chills had my body shaking so bad it was difficult to walk. I had to make it to Boucke. I forgot this experience as my mind chose to bury it. Reading this brought it back. I just remember shaking uncontrollably and that 'curl into a ball and die' idea was very likely a real thought.
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Had finance classes in the new Smeal building not long after it was built. The wind coming off the curved glass front blew so hard when walking into the entrance there were times it knocked me off my stride. And when it rained/snowed (which was almost always in State College) it felt like a tornado in Lambeau Field
When I was returned to the dorms at 3 AM, I wasn't coming from class!
Oh I always went, not saying I completely understood what was being said as I tried to warm up though.
You saying you're not Stuart?
Where did this thread go off the rail?
I remember that like it was yesterday. I used a multi purpose tool to help shovel my car out - combination sled, eating surface and snow shovel, aka the ubiquitous cafeteria tray. Returned back to the Findlay at the end of the year.
Feet? You had feet?
High school graduation gift.
There was a gal that died my junior or senior year (ca. 1977?) when she backed her car into one of the big snow piles in Parking Lot 80 and then the carbon monoxide got her when she was warming it up later.
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