Like all Loggers, I love our beautiful campus with all of my heart. In case you were not yet made aware, our campus is rated in the top 20 most beautiful campuses according to the Princeton review (we came in at number 20, but don’t tell anyone because we don’t like to talk about that). It seems our community members agree that our campus is pretty dang beautiful, because in the absence of our student body, neighboring dog walkers and children and families on all sorts of bike adjacent contraptions have come to fill the void, and to enjoy the sunshine, freshly bloomed tulips, and our world renowned grass.
You, like any upstanding member of the Puget Sound Community, are of course familiar with the edgy kids who sit on the slab, freshman playing spikeball on Todd Field, ultimate frisbee team members throwing their plastic discs, and groups of PSO kids hanging from hammocks or slacklines. Now get ready for the new kids on the block! If you were to step on campus nowadays on your daily state sanctioned walk you may see:
A Pug sitting on it’s very own beach blanket panting from the exertion of walking, being hand fed gourmet snacks (most likely from the MET) by its owner.
Two, maybe even four weeds growing freely on our campus in the absence of the majority of our hard working grounds keeping team. Fortunately, the lawn does not have this same freedom, as I have witnessed several lawnmowers out mowing down any pieces of grass brave enough to attempt to grow.
Our campus CRANE!!! This crane could once be found working hard on the welcome center, but it now wanders around campus working on various other projects and being all tall and stuff. Also, it is blue.
The welcome center after months, maybe even decades of work is looking beautiful. The fences and barricades that used to surround it have been removed and the groundskeeping (including cute little shrubs) is impeccable. Now, all it needs is someone to welcome.
Puget Sound students with climbing ropes rappelling their way up trees. I guess edgeworks climbing gym is closed?
UPS fraternity bros scooting around the neighborhood on their razor scooters at truly impressive speeds.
The shocking assortment of person powered vehicles that frequent campus. Roller blades, bikes with 2 seats, bikes with 3 seats, tiny push bikes, scooters, bikes pulling carts containing children, plastic cars that parents push their children around in, and sometimes even normal bikes.
The Thompson Parking lot which once housed cars has now been repurposed as a skatepark for middle schoolers and UPS students alike to practice their kickflips. Gnarly!
This Kilworth Memorial Chapel sign across the street from the field house.
A group of thirty something bros playing ultimate frisbee and looking really cool while doing it. Catch these young men setting up a volleyball net on Todd field, then taking it down four minutes later because security told them to.
Small children who are talented enough to set up hammocks all by themselves without assistance, ‘mocking it up in various trees around campus.
UPS students lugging ridiculous amounts of cellar snacks they purchased in the sub back to their dorm rooms.
Those same students toting sub food in to go vesicles seeking out unique dining locations (such as the stairs of Jones Hall, the ground, or the actual slab part of the slab) in the absence of anywhere else to sit.
Families gathering by the circle at night to light lanterns they have hung in trees.
Security guards circling campus in their pickup trucks watching over everyone previously mentioned ready to swoop in and put an immediate end to any shenanigans.
