About My School

Well here it is, I'm finally going to tell everybody about Morehead State University, my alma mater. And yes, I'm surprised myself that I'm actually still posting on this blog. The only reason I didn't post yesterday was because I had work from 2-9PM, then a Halloween party after that, and after that... I was fucking tired so I didn't feel like it. But I digress, I'm here now, I'm bored, and it's a rainy Halloween in Morehead so let's just jump right in.

So Morehead State University, as you may have guessed is located in Morehead, Kentucky. It's a small town with like 10,000 people and pretty much nothing to do besides hang out at Buffalo Wild Wings whenever the game's on, or go to Walmart and shoot the shit. The cool part about the town is the surrounding area. Morehead is inside a valley of several hills and small mountains, so it almost feels like you are trapped sometimes. At the same time, the city is ten minutes from Cave Run Lake, this huge man-made reservoir made back in the 60's. So there is a lot of great scenery and biology around the area.

 

Here is Main Street. This is basically the "downtown" part of Morehead where most of the businesses are. Pasquale's, Holbrook Drug, Phoenix Feather (Magic: TG Shop), IGA. It's also important to know that the city is pretty much divided into two parts, stupidly connected by this long-ass road. The downtown part where campus is, and the shopping area with Kroger, Walmart and other places.

 

Anyway, enough about the city because it's boring so let's move on to the campus.

 

 

Sorry about the tiny picture, but it was the only picture of the sign I could find. When you enter campus the normal way by turning on University Boulevard, you're gonna pass this sign welcoming you. There is also this tall, spire thing next to it, but sadly it's not in the picture.

 

Going down University you're going to pass the Health Building and the Police Department on the right before you come to the first major building.

 

 

This is Cartmell Hall. Pretty much, this is the best residence hall on campus if you want a traditional style, two person room with community bathrooms. Kinda of strange how they built the thing on that pedestal thing. You have to go upstairs to get into the lobby, which in turn, technically isn't the first floor since there are no rooms on the lobby floor. Besides that, it has this nice glass lobby on the bottom with a Ping-Pong table and game rooms. The elevators are freakin' fast, zipping up to the sixteenth floor in time it takes others to go to the fourth floor.

 

Going down University further, you're going to come to a three way stop. Taking a right on Battson-Oates, you're heading straight for the residential side of campus.

 

 

 

You might have to zoom in, but here is a high quality photo of the residential side of campus. Starting from the top left, you have Nunn Hall, the creepiest, most haunted building on campus. It seriously looks like a dam that blocks the valley, and resembles a prison.

 

 

Seriously though, how can you not be creeped out by this thing. It's just a weird building. There's that big glass lobby that's elevated for some reason, there's the road that goes underneath the whole building. But by far the weirdest thing, are those "windows". Yeah, they aren't actually windows. Apparently, those are just openings into the HALLWAY. So the hallway is like the walkway at a motel/hotel, that goes all the way along the face of the building. Really, the whole building has a shell. No other dorm I've ever heard of does this, that has the hall open to the elements. When you are looking at all those windows, you are actually looking at a bunch of doors.

 

 The one immediately to the right of it on the overhead picture, Waterfield Hall, was really shitty and the tore it down. Below Waterfield, we have the Mignon Complex. The tower in the center of the circle is Mignon Tower, the one on the right is Mignon Hall, the top one is West Mignon, and the bottom one is East Mignon. (don't ask why). Those are all really nice too, four person suites where a lot of the upperclassmen live.

 

 

Here's another view of the place. There isn't that much to say about the place, it's just generally nice. Nothing to remarkable to say about it.

Looks like I have to go early and abandon the tour. Sorry guys, I'll continue it later and finish up the dorms and talk about the other buildings on campus. Until then, see ya.

World Series Thoughts

Shit son, the Giants won and the lobby crew, minus one guy is pretty pissed off. For some reason the students here at Morehead were predominantly Royals fans, I mean, they do sponsor the Lexington Legends, but besides that, who really cares? Everybody apparently. Anyway, I didn't really stand one way or the other since I don't regularly watch baseball. But I got to say, fucking Madison Bumgarner is a phenom on the mound and the Royals just could not handle him.

Poor Roach though, and yes he actually goes by that, he is the biggest Royals fan in the place and they came up just short. He is taking it like a champ though. I think Springer put it best when he said, yelled actually: "DON'T SWING AT HIGH PITCHES!"

I swear though, the damn Giants almost blew it hard at the end of the game though. Bottom of the ninth, they're up three to two, Royals at bat, two outs. I don't know who it was but somehow they smashed the ball down center-left field and somehow, somehow was not caught by a Giant who easily could have grabbed it. Anyway, it keeps rolling all the way up to the fence with two Giants in pursuit. One gets out of the way to let the other one pick up the ball, but somehow he fumbles with the damn thing for five seconds before throwing it back into the diamond. This guy got a fuckin triple off a hit that could have been caught in the air. He probably could have made it to home plate too if the coach didn't park him at third. But who can blame him, we can only guess that he would have made it if he went for it. And not knowing where the ball is, I don't blame him at all for doing his job and stopping at third instead of risking everything, yolo-ing it and sprinting for home.

Anyway, it's really, really fucking hot in the lobby so good night.

What's Up Everybody, Let's Do This Shit

So yeah, obligatory introduction blog post here. I'm not very good at this type of shit but it's 6:00PM on an October Wedensday, I'm bored as hell, and the World Series comes on in a few hours. Right now I'm sitting in the lobby of Cooper Hall, my humble residence for my freshman year at Morehead State University. I would tell you all about Cooper, but it warrants a separate post simply because it's reputation precedes it so much. We are pretty much known to be the ghetto hall on campus, and I wouldn't disagree. Here's a picture of it for reference if you are interested.

 

Sorry for the small size, but this is the only picture of the place I can find. Notice the glass structure in the front? Yeah, that's the lobby where I am right now. It looks really strange and doesn't match the rest of the building really, but whatever. It is the go-to hang out spot for residents on campus. Funny thing is, the lobby as a result pretty much has a dedicated cast of characters that you can expect to see here at any given time. I mean people like Jose, Casey, Thug Nasty (for real), Hollywood, DJ. For the longest time I was kinda afraid to stay down here, but really, everyone is pretty chill and is usual just bored off their asses like any other college student. Also in case you wanted to know I live on the second floor of the place behind that big-ass tree on the left. Lucked out on that one, nobody can see me smokin' dat herb in my room.  (not really)

 

Anyway, I don't know how frequently I will post or if this will even work at all, but seeing as I started this blog when I was bored, I will probably have 100 posts before the end of the semester. I will probably choose to keep my identity anonymous simply because I can say whatever the fuck I want to and not have to hear no shit about it later. It's not that I can't talk shit in person, I'm just much more eloquent and fleshed-out in a text format. I'll talk about classes, college life, relationships, random shit that happens, whatever.

 

So anyway, peace and love motherfuckers, and welcome to Morehead State. I'll have a post describing the university as a whole soon. Til then, see ya.