There is always something going on, be it everyone playing teir respected instrument or having a LAN party and playing Halo: Reach.
When you are on the third floor of building C (most of my friends are there), there is an odd, yet beautiful clash of every type of music, from classical to dubstep and everything in between.
Video games... Video games everywhere in these halls! You can most likely find everyone with either a PS3 or an XBox 360. Who knows, maybe someone is hiding a Wii somewhere up there as well.
If you get them started on Marvel vs. DC, it gets kinda crazy!
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One such inhabitant of the dorm is hosting a pull up contest. I entered as Leroy Jenkins as a joke. Now I am actually in the contest >.<
Most of my new friends are from that hall, such as Ethan, Zach, Spaceman (though his real name is John), not to mention my boyfriend Reece.
The community they have is unlike any other.
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McClintock is nice, but they (my fellow McClintock residents), don't have the same energy as these nerds do.
These are my people, how I am around them is my natural state.
When Zach is gone for the weekend, we take his food sometimes.
Just like the theme from "Cheers" everyone seems to know your name.
Just about everyone you run into is friendly, and they are more than willing to help you with problems, be it homework or personal.
Spaceman is just about everywhere.
Leave your door open and you will have company in no time.
Though the dorms seem to be made up of mostly guys, I don't mind that much. I'll just bring my girls with me to the LAN parties!
Inside jokes (like the song "Sweaty")
When you play video games, you will have an audience cheering you on, and sharing your different levels of excitement and annoyance (depending on how well you are doing).
If you get hungry, there are three meal plan exchange places to go to, along with a convenience store that takes M&G.
To go off of that, I should also mention how we like having the juke box around, from the Devil's Diner. It just adds to the atmosphere, and everyone enjoys listening to some of their favorite songs through such ways.
When watching movies, Zach's rug is pretty comfortable to lay on, rather than sitting in the blue chair.
There is probably more that I am forgetting to mention, but I feel like I got a pretty good amount of reasons why I enjoy PV Main, and what goes on up there.
As you can see, these are merely my observational notes, rather than my notes relating to the Frank Vanclay's lens upon my "Experience of Place." Those will be part of another blog post, possibly shorter or longer (it really all depends on how I take those notes). Regardless, I got a little over two pages of notes (written) with these observations. They were done in more of a cluster, or organic organization, rather than outlining it (saving that for Vanclay).
I hope you enjoyed, and you will hear from me another time.
I enjoyed your very interesting observation of a living space. I live at home so I have yet to experience the dorm life. The social structures of a dorm floor can provide insight to the makeup of a place and the residents or users of that place. A reading good to use would probably be Vanclay's as he talks about how there are different factors that make up a room. Those rooms are huge when it comes to the social and spiritual factors that impact a room. Physically all of the rooms are built pretty much the same. It’s about to the student to make something more of it, which then in turn creates that unique dynamic that can provide new prospective and a change for the inexperienced viewer of a place. This structure provides a point of analysis that would be good to cover in your essay .Another writing that could possibly be an interesting approach is of Mark Twain's. He describes how knowledge will change a perspective. Students start out as newbies and as time passes they can accumulate a better knowledge of their room and they dynamics. So including observations that a tourist would not know would provide another insight.
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