an unofficial preview of the new l-s
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This is the main computer lab, also known as (of course) the center of the new school. Seriously, it is. In location, anyways. |
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However, all classrooms are pretty much mini-labs here. You'll notice this history room (I think) has the really important stuff: computers, TV, whiteboard... but lacks the little detail of chairs and desks. |
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This is history hall. Or at least the contents of the old history hall. |
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The science rooms aren't quite unpacked yet either. |
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I'm sure you'll all be relieved to see that the Scantron machines made it safely over, though... |
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This drama/music area needs just a little bit of
work. (But don't worry, it'll all be perfect by September! Really!) |
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Speaking of unpacking... |
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But at least there's a nice view. Kind of. This is from a science classroom in the A400 area. |
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The new school will be steered by the spirit of the old one, as shown here. Just like the old one, it'll be fueled by caffeine. |
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A view down one of the light-wells in... A Pod, I want to say? Actually I totally forget where I took this. Sorry. |
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And up the light-well. |
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This is one of the stairwells that you can sort of see from the road. They connect the three pods. The new building has lots of stairs. |
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If you need to find stairs and don't want to take the main ones, though -- I imagine they'll get crowded once there's actually people here -- just look for the exit signs. |
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This is one of the gyms. Picture taken from the balcony. Yes, balcony. It's pretty nice, even if not painted yet, as you can see in the corner. |
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The lecture hall. (Sorry for the icky picture.) It's unfinished but still wicked cool and even steeper sloped than it looks here. |
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One of the elevators, obviously. Don't trust the little "3" -- this picture was actually taken on the fourth floor. |
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Yes, the new school was actually designed by M. C. Escher. |
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Over in drama: this is the green room. Two of the doors on the right I think actually lead to bathrooms, one to the drama office, and on the left just out of the picture is the door to the auditorium. |
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Speaking of which. |
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(This picture is from under the balcony, the other is from above. I was gonna get a picture from another angle and try to get you guys to guess where I took it from, but unfortunately the location in question was locked. Maybe some other time.) |
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This is just outside the auditorium on the lowest level of A pod. I'm guessing it'll be a popular spot, unless its remote location underneath all the main administration and far from the actual classrooms interferes. :P |
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Yes, the new school is almost finished. Absolutely. |
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In a fit of inspiration, the architects have located the outlets and network drops for the computers in this physics room right next to the sink. Nice job, folks. |
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This is the spaceship loading dock. What? |
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The water fountains look very pretty but are not yet chlorinated. |
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So we're seeing a number of these around. |
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I think this is West House. The house offices should be pretty nice once they're cleaned up a bit. Or a lot. |
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The budget didn't allow for a stairway to heaven, so we had to settle for a ladder. |
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Awwww... look, it's the old building. |
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Awww. |
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Yeah. |
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This is another gym. With mirrors on the wall. All I have to say is I'm so glad I'm not going to have to take aerobics in here, because it'd be really really depressing. |
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All the hallways feature color-coded walls. Those of you who are big on mnemonic devices can find their way around by remembering that B pod is blue, C pod is crimson, and A pod is... green. (Aquamarine?) Er. But what I was going to say is that y'all have already been beat to the stapling up signs and graffiti thing. Darn. |
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This is I think the language lab. I affectionately refer to our new computer acquistions as Attack of the Clones. |
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Remember that nice hill where we used to sled, and I think where they used to hold graduation, once upon a time? Yeah. I think this is an air-conditioning unit. One of my fearless co-workers says it looks like something from Half-Life.
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This is the library. It's hard to make fun of because it looks pretty nice. Um. The lights look like upside down umbrellas and they haven't put them up yet?
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And here's the view from the other side of the fence we've been staring at. |
