When you graduate from college, you don’t anticipate missing things like school buildings, classwork, and annoying neighbors. Or at least, what you do expect to miss are the people who you used to be able to visit in less than a 5 minute walk. Though I miss my roommates and friends a great deal, I’ve begun oddly growing nostalgic and pining after a building that I once would ceaselessly ridicule:
Image courtesy of Goucher College
Sometimes called “the fishbowl” or to a few the ‘hollow building’, this massive construction of glass, copper, and stone was one of the more bizarre buildings to surface during my time at Goucher. ‘The Ath’ was one of few buildings in my academic career that I was able to see come to fruition as a student: I left after my high school was rebuilt and I fear I will not see the Julia Rogers renovations until I’m marching in the Alumni Weekend parade (scary thought). But what was so lovable about the Ath? What wasn’t I missing? Here is what I came up with:
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