Collegian Anamolies

[USSRGirl]

Yeah, so I figured I'd start one of those annoying back to school threads. But this one I'm genuinely curious to hear.

What strange, unexplained mysteries have you noticed around your campus?
You know we all got those weird inexplicable spontaneous happenings that don't quite justify an Outer Limits episode but certainly fill an unreasonably large part of your day wondering about. So share your experiences. Now. I command you.

I shall start; the small sidewalk section between my student union and the lecture halls smells inexplicably of pancakes or waffles at nearly all times of the day. Yet neither of the adjacent buildings produce any form of breakfast food, and stranger still I've actually taken the time to investigate the inside of the walls facing this street - no waffles. No pancakes. A mystery.

[Radical Dreamer]

No real mysteries just yet, but dang it if it's not one of the scariest things ever to walk through the maze of buildings to get back to my dorm from a late night art class. XDD The buildings are all really old and would be a perfect setting for some kind of zombie movie to happen. XD

[Sheenar]

My campus' mystery: Some of the squirrels just act "off"--they'll run right in front of you or in front of a car, they sprawl out on the grass on their stomachs, and I've heard of at least one squirrel attack (one landed on a girl's head and scratched her up good). Oh, and the squirrels fall out of trees at times.

One of my professors had the following hypothesis: There is a type of moss growing on the oak trees. The squirrels eat it, get high, and thus act strangely.

Well, it's possible.

[Slater]

Once a year here at SFSU, the Human Sexuality 492 class makes dioramas out of condoms. Well, I guess that's not much of a mystery considering it's the one class that you get a grade for watching porn in, but it certainly is the most entertaining on-campus event.

There's also the Science Building, which is an anomaly in-and-of itself. Built by 3 different architects over 3 different periods of time with 3 entirely different sets of blueprints, there is no official map of the science building's layout; and walking down the halls can be downright disorienting... it's hard to explain, but there's actually a few hallways where I get a headache just looking from one end to another.

[ChristianKitsune]

hmm...
Anamolies at my campus? Well, I sure wish that maintence would fix some of the outside levels of my campus that tend to flood when it rains. >_> My campus is designed to resemble an old military fort in a way. XD And a lot of the second level concrete walkways are warped. Sometimes water even gets inside the doorways, up to 1/4 of an inch. That's not fun to walk in.

We also have a lake on campus that Canadian Geese visit every fall and winter and stay. I just saw them come back yesterday, seems like cold weather is coming XD.

We also have a large open area for prairie dogs! 8D (and I've heard a rumor that foxes live on campus too. XD)

[USSRGirl]

XDDD The high squirrel hypothesis takes the cake I must say. Now you just detered me from feeding my squirrels on campus. You never know when they might snap. I actually like walking through the historic buildings at night, especially now that it's getting towards winter.

The dioramas somehow just don't surprise me much seeing what qualifies as "education" in schools these days. XD

[Raiden no Kishi]

As for collegiate anomalies, I've always wondered why we're going to spend millions on a new, second entrance to the school when the dorms look like they haven't been updated in my lifetime.

I can't top condom dioramas, though.

.rai//

[Aileen Kailum]

It is impossible to retain any sense of direction in the Fine Arts building. That building has more "you are here" maps on the walls than all the rest of the buildings on campus combined, and it can still take you ten minutes to find out where the restrooms are.

[minakichan]

To be sure, I don't think I can mention my school and "anomaly" without making reference to the Stata Center:



or Simmons Hall:



Aside from that, can't cite much more than general nerdiness, which encompasses a lot.

[Dante]

Well... my office (I Teach 3 courses and I'm taking 3 courses at the same time as I should be doing research... its late and my mind is good only for CAA... sleep comes soon) has this weird phenomena. When I sit in their alone, I sometimes here music, really nice pretty music that I never hear outside. It almost sounds like glass harmonicas, but you can't make out the melody or frequency precisely because its always right at the threshold of hearing. O_o... But I've never heard these noises elsewhere on campus.

At my old campus, ASU. The SPS room had a door to a back... I guess you would call it "hall", but it was cramped and hard to access (they were always locked). Well this hidden hall led to outside balconies which apparently were used to store "stuff". Well... if this wasn't weird enough, there were pits on the right side of the cramped thing (it was hard to walk through) which a thin person could fall through... and they looked like they went A LONG WAY DOWN. I couldn't see the bottom... So I think given the schools mascot... yeah.

(They also had pseudo-secret underground electrical tunnels and supposedly some led to an old mining complex under the school, but that's an unconfirmed rumor that was going around SPS. (They supposedly found a way in through an accidentally left open door in the mens bathroom on the bottom floor of one of the dorms.

Crazy as it sounds, these kids could find their way into a locked physics building without a key on weekends by all forms of crazy ingenius ways... It was almost like a challenge to them . But it was probably all just a rumor.

[Peanut]

Our school has a reputation for being a marriage factory for many reasons. One such reason is the music they pipe along our main walkway right near the Jesus fountain. During the day it's this really cool jazzy stuff but once it starts to get dark and the lights along that street turn on, the music changes to this mellow romantic stuff.

Other anomolies at my school include individuals from a non-Christian faith going here, some pranks involving bubble bath and the Jesus fountain, and of course Chartwells...

[Mr. SmartyPants]

To be sure, I don't think I can mention my school and "anomaly" without making reference to the Stata Center:



or Simmons Hall:



Aside from that, can't cite much more than general nerdiness, which encompasses a lot.

YOU GO TO FREAKIN' MIT! =( =( =( YOU AND YOUR SMARTS.

As for my school, besides what Peanut said, I once saw a used condom outside the gym last semester. XD

[minakichan]

YOU GO TO FREAKIN' MIT! =( =( =( YOU AND YOUR SMARTS.

Yes, I do. Have I mentioned that I go to MIT?

I guess that at this point "school pride" starts to sound like "stuck-up snobbishness." Regardless, I consider it Pretty Freaking Awesome that I can wake up and see a brightly-colored Giant Metal Sponge outside my window.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Rumor has it that my old college was riddled with underground tunnels.

[Puguni]

I don't know about any legends or mysteries around my school; I'm sure they're a lot, because my school is so old. I do know that every time I walk behind one of the many libraries we have here I smell something that seems like urine. I like to say that people relieve themselves there late after a night of partying.

[Puguni]

Rumor has it that my old college was riddled with underground tunnels.

Anyone go steam tunneling?

[Sheenar]

My college has an old Magnolia tree on campus. There is a plaque on a stand in front of it saying that it is the President's tree and back when one of the old university presidents had his house there, his kids would climb the tree and play on it.
Well, apparently --even though it says that the old President's kids would climb on it --UPD (University Police Department) didn't like it when my friend and her husband climbed the tree. The officer told them that trees weren't for climbing....

Whatever.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Anyone go steam tunneling?

Heh. Nah. I know one of the jobs an RD friend of mine had to do was regularly kick people out who were making out in the tunnels. She had keys to a few of them. She also lived in the Hall that used to be the home of the university's founder and was supposedly haunted by said founder.

So... Supposedly nothing. I just found a thread with pictures posted.

http://www.undergroundozarks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882&sid=ea284c8dbb349151732aae0f9b00b74b

[Puguni]

Heh. Nah. I know one of the jobs an RD friend of mine had to do was regularly kick people out who were making out in the tunnels. She had keys to a few of them. She also lived in the Hall that used to be the home of the university's founder and was supposedly haunted by said founder.

So... Supposedly nothing. I just found a thread with pictures posted.

http://www.undergroundozarks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882&sid=ea284c8dbb349151732aae0f9b00b74b

Ha ha, they look like our tunnels. Apparently the best thing to do is run around the steam tunnels without a map in the dark. Then pop out at the nearest grate and find out where you wandered.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

There are grates that I've always suspected were part of the tunnels. Honestly, I attended the school for five years and never knew where they were, although back when I was playing Mage I totally wanted to run a game where the university was a mage academy with the old brick water tower being a major learning lab.

[Peanut]

Ok, so this isn't an anomoly that happened at my school nor is it something I personally witnessed however one of my roomates pulled off some rather witty pranks at his old college. His best prank that I know of was when he took his schools Student Handbook (which was written in like the 50s and hadn't been edited since...oh by the way...no one really followed it...) and rewrote it as a witty satire of his college (it should be noted that the college he was going to was pretty conservative). He was working security at this school so he had the keys to every building, so he and a friend went and made tons of copies of this "revised" student handbook and then mailed it to every student mailbox. They were eventually found out and got into huge trouble however not before their handbook had made it around the school. It get's better though, the administration didn't reveal that he did it so later one of his professors ran up to him, showed him a copy of the handbook he'd written and told him that he needed to read it. Also, as the university began to crack down and confiscate these fake handbooks, people began to come up to him asking where they could find one. He still had a box full of them hidden in his room so he was able to "find one for them." After he transfered to our school, he got a message from a professor (I think) telling him that the schools official handbook had just been edited after he left. The college in question refuses to admit that his handbook had anything to do with it...hehe...right...

[~darkelfgirl~]

At every lecture or meeting I have so far attended, the teachers would stare directly at me oO. I mean, dead straight at me.

My wireless connection and power outlets on my side of the room stink, while my roommate's side is ok.

The elevator doors seriously try to close on people oO--like they have minds of their own. And these mosquitoes at the Science Center feed on me only. They skip everyone else and feed on me!!!!

Another unexplained mystery--why is the stairwell outside when it's our only route of escape in event of a hurricane?! And for some reason, the fish keep jumping out of the lake--and no one can explain why. Oh darn, probably gave my college away xD.

[Maledicte]

To be sure, I don't think I can mention my school and "anomaly" without making reference to the Stata Center:

I was WONDERING where that was from:



I can't think of any anomalies on my campus. Just that why do they have to keep upgrading every other building except the art building.

[Radical Dreamer]

[Quote=Radical Dreamer]No real mysteries just yet, but dang it if it's not one of the scariest things ever to walk through the maze of buildings to get back to my dorm from a late night art class. XDD The buildings are all really old and would be a perfect setting for some kind of zombie movie to happen. XD[/QUOTE]

So I was pretty close with that train of thought. XD

I heard today that the sequel to the movie Carrie, the original of which was based on the Stephen King novel, was filmed at my school. Not a zombie movie, but still a horror flick. XD

[Warrior4Christ]

After 4.5 years, there aren't very many mysteries left unsolved that I can think of... except this one's still puzzling:

In the dark dingy underground parts of the Union Building, there's the male toilets. No further than 5 metres from that door is another room of male toilets. WHY? One of them is pretty much the biggest on the campus, but near least-used, and the other one has some showers (probably because it's close to the river/sporting facilities). It's a bit of a walk to the female toilets from there too, because they're on the other side.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

There was a male bathroom in our pool area under one of the oldest buildings that has this giant black doorway leading down further below the building where is this gross kind of almost silent hill-ish look to it.

[ShiroiHikari]

Here's a mystery: the word "anomaly" has been spelled several different ways in this thread by people who are attending institutions of higher learning. XD

[Peanut]

<---- *is the self proclaimed really bad spelling grammar pastry man and has a legitimate excuse for his horrible spellingz gramars* AP Englis dids onders fur I. lol...

[LadyRushia]

In the dining hall, the ceilings are pretty high and there are some metal beams not too far below it. My friends and I have discovered two pepper shakers on these beams and we don't know how they got there or why they're there, XD.

We also have geese on campus that apparently stay here all year because a long time ago the guy who owned this place clipped the geese's wings so they wouldn't fly away. So, the generations after didn't learn to migrate or something; but I haven't seen them around for a few days so I dunno, XD.

[USSRGirl]

And these mosquitoes at the Science Center feed on me only. They skip everyone else and feed on me!!!!

I may have mentioned this in the past, but I am extremely hyper-sensitive towards mosquito bites (seriously... I had one on my arm that swelled the size of the palm of my hand). I feel better knowing that the little buggers aren't inherently programmed to seek me out in particular now. XD

Here's a mystery: the word "anomaly" has been spelled several different ways in this thread by people who are attending institutions of higher learning. XD

XD I looked at this after and realized I misspelled my entire title. *facepalm* I blame uber bad spellin n' pastryman's vicarious influence.

On a side note: Add demon chem professor from Dantes' 9th level to the list. >.>;;