Central Campus in spring or right after a snow before it gets trampled through is peak campus time.
Favorite part of ISU campus
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I think I know that tree(s), and I recall it as a Black Maple.
If you hit the link here you can locate the exact tree and it will identify it on campus:
There were some pretty cool sunsets over by Marston tower.
Instead of walking straight across central campus I would usually take the long way and walk by Morrill hall wondering if they would ever renovate it, which they started my senior year, and go by Catt hall, because I thought that was the best looking building on campus.
Instead of walking straight across central campus I would usually take the long way and walk by Morrill hall wondering if they would ever renovate it, which they started my senior year, and go by Catt hall, because I thought that was the best looking building on campus.
Loved everything about it. If I could be a student again and live in Friley I would do it in a heartbeat.
If I had to make a short list here are some (very specific) instances:
- The sensuous smell of fallen Sycamore leaves warmed after a cool Fall night on my brisk morning trek to class
- Walking hand-in-hand, pre-dusk, to get a cone at Boyd's Dairy, as Manfred Mann's "I came for you" played somewhere in Campustown.
- Having student season tickets three rows in under the basket at Hilton.
- In 1981, my friend trolling Hawk fans wearing bent and twisted sunglasses after we beat them limping and pleading "Uncle Hayden, Uncle Hayden!"
- Campus in general with all the majestic trees, classic buildings, and flowering plants--especially the Spring Redbuds.
- Experiencing glorious fall Saturdays at Jack with a brew in hand, Cardinal and Gold all-around, swooning in the hazy smoke at the smell of grills searing Iowa-grown meats.
- The sensuous smell of fallen Sycamore leaves warmed after a cool Fall night on my brisk morning trek to class
- Walking hand-in-hand, pre-dusk, to get a cone at Boyd's Dairy, as Manfred Mann's "I came for you" played somewhere in Campustown.
- Having student season tickets three rows in under the basket at Hilton.
- In 1981, my friend trolling Hawk fans wearing bent and twisted sunglasses after we beat them limping and pleading "Uncle Hayden, Uncle Hayden!"
- Campus in general with all the majestic trees, classic buildings, and flowering plants--especially the Spring Redbuds.
- Experiencing glorious fall Saturdays at Jack with a brew in hand, Cardinal and Gold all-around, swooning in the hazy smoke at the smell of grills searing Iowa-grown meats.
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GF went back to get her vet tech degree/cert and I sent this to her multiple times.
None of her classmates were younger than her daughter, but several were REAL close.
Walking out of the MU view was pretty great. Hanging out on central campus on a nice day. Both are tough to beat.
What years and which courses did he teach? Trying to figure out if he was one of my profs.
Edit: Thanks KP42, your dad started a year or two after my time.
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When I lived in BWR, campus felt like it was my personal park. I was and still am very protective of it.
My grandfather was a landscape architect professor at ISU, so I was privileged in some ways.
My grandfather was a landscape architect professor at ISU, so I was privileged in some ways.
Campanile around midnight with the right company, otherwise, Central Campus in general.
The Christian Petersen sculpture of dairy cows drinking at Dairy Industry Building. In the 70’s you get access it by climbing over a wall in a delivery lot on the east side of the building. Now it’s in the center of the building
Brown chicken brown cow.
The courtyard infront of BWR. All the young woman sunbathing in bikinis. — what I liked when in college.
Now I like the large tailgating area for football.
Purely 100% biased but really: How on a beautiful sunny day does a high school student on a campus tour not walk away from Iowa State University and think to themselves...... yep that's where I'm going?
That Lago courtyard in the spring is tough to beat. And I never had a class there. I also like the area between the library, Curtis, the Hub and Black. Whatever those purple flowering trees were.
Recognition
- Named a Medallion Site by the American Society of Landscape Architects, sharing this honor with places like the Grand Canyon and Central Park TheCollegeTour.com.
- Featured in lists of the top 25 most beautiful campuses in the country TheCollegeTour.com.
Many here love the landscaping of central Campus. Go to its edge at the NE corner of Lincoln Way and (N.) University Blvd. to find a historic tree. It is an American Sycamore believed to be nearly 200 years old.
