"If being smelly, gross, and depressing wasn’t enough to cement
Skiles’
bad reputation, terrible water fountains can be added to its repertoire."
That's why I was excited to see that the Tech Green was being torn up to create a new math building! The fact that we didn't have any donors or state funds to build the building shouldn't stop us from taking bold decisive steps, right? This was about math, why should we worry about reality?
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As I reviewed the project plans for the new math building, I was quite pleased to see a lot of improvements. There will be an infinite number of power outlets which I know the students will like. However, each one is only half as large as the previous one, and no adapters are provided. Maybe that'll be something for the next Inventure prize?
The cafe has a modern coffee bar where you can plug the theorem-giving fluid directly into your bloodstream via IV. Too bad they only serve 3.14 flavors of pie, though.
Students today expect hands on projects and the new building will have a mathematical makerspace with 2D plotters, 3D printers, and 4D time machines!
I really like the architectural features like the efficient Escher staircase, the innovative Perkins study areas which are larger on the inside than the outside, and of course the self-cleaning, Klein bottle sinks.
Summing up, the new math building going on the site of the former Tech Green is a positive development. I truly hope it's not purely imaginary and the designers can integrate all it's unique functions.
But how can I differentiate those different functions?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, later events have called into question the Legislature's support for the new math building. Recently, Professor Lirpa was called to testify before the State Committee on Unified Mathematics (SCUM). Representative Loof Laer was deeply dissatisfied with Lirpa's responses regarding the importance of integration at GT and has indicated that Mathematics may need to remain in its brutal surroundings for the foreseeable future.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, 4D Time Machines in combining with the Functioning Bathrooms were undergoing some serious stress tests with a highly successful rate.
ReplyDelete9 out of 10 students were able to look back in time on what they had for lunch. The other student was under pressure and could not replicate the result.
I hear that the Physics Dept. will solve the space problem by hiring only boson faculy members, so that they will be happy to share offices. The office of diversity had complained that all the faculty members hired were fermionic.
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