After high school, I went to college about 90 miles away. I would have liked to go further away, however this way college was paid for, and I didn’t have to work. I worked in high school, and at times it definitely interfered with school. I wasn’t sure I wanted to work during college with the classes I was taking. I began as a engineering major–mechanical engineering. You had two years to get some of the basics out of the way to apply to the department. So the university campus is huge. I couldn’t get the entire campus into one picture.

Football was one of the most important things at this university. I had tickets as a freshman. I never went to game. My first semester I had chemistry lab on Saturday morning. It wouldn’t fit into my schedule at any other time, and I think all the other labs were full. The chemistry building is rather close to the stadium now. None of us really wanted to be there on Saturday morning. I didn’t get home much that first semester. Later years, I had a plan on how to avoid the football traffic and mob. The city became crazy on game days. It was best to lie low until the game started. Then you could run errands, but not too the mall. All the wives went to the mall during the game. The stadium has been updated. I can’t remember if they built a new one. It had to be made bigger to hold more fans. I think it’s one of the largest football stadiums at any university.I spent two years taking math, physics and chemistry classes. I got in a few engineering classes as well before the classes began to kick my butt. The sexist teacher who wouldn’t give women higher than a “C” didn’t help either. I wish I had known about him earlier because I could have taken a different class. So after my car committed suicide, I changed my major. My migraines were intense, and school just wasn’t going very well except for a few classes. I moved over to journalism. You can’t see that building anymore. I think it’s gone now to make room for the stadium.

This photo is a nice close-up of the library. You can barely make out some sort of reddish sculpture on the lawn near it. I don’t know why the lawn is brown. I don’t remember it being brown. Many students hated that sculpture. It’s a big red “K” made out of steel beams. It’s from someone famous. I think there’s one by the same artist in Chicago. I always thought it was cool. It was the only way I could pick out the library and navigate the aerial view. The rather tall white building is the chemistry building. I considering going here for graduate school, but I chose a different school. The library was rather interesting. Modern and old. The old parts were scary. Light bulbs hanging from wires. As a freshman, all women were warned about going to those parts of the library alone. Apparently, rapes occurred there. I don’t know if they did. I suppose it could happen and might have happened to someone. It also could have been a way to scare us. You had a greater chance of being raped at a party than the library. I wandered most of that scary library without a single incident. Sometimes the books you need are in the dark, dank part of the library. They seem to place the bound journals there, and these are necessary for research papers.Next: Where I lived on campus and off.