Things You Missed Last Week

This is the view from the Men's room in Rand Hall. The structural steel for the new architecture building arrived two weeks ago and every day a new truss is set in place using one of the biggest cranes I have ever seen. The first morning they started putting the steel in we were taking a structures exam and we came back to studio to see this. Adam said it was ironic that in the time it took him to fail a structures exam they had built a building.


Each section of the Truss weighs in excess of 200,000 lbs and to put them in place they need one giant crane, one guy with a rope, another guy to straddle the neighboring truss and pull it into place, and finally one guy to stand and point.


Last Friday also happened to be Slope Day. We couldn't partake in the tradition with our plots (presentation posters) due the next day but we had to walk through on our way to lunch. Nine out of ten students we passed were already trashed (it was only 1pm).