When I was your age!: How BYU campus has changed.

There are some buildings on campus that were birthed in my time there. There are some that have also died. This is to commemorate those buildings.

One of the biggest things to change during my time at BYU was the death of the KMB.

Now, this building only existed for one year of my life at BYU. However, I walked past it every single morning on my way to Physical Science and saw ballroom dance classes going on in there. I always kind of hoped I would meet myself a ballroom man while walking past. No such luck. So instead of this building existing, there is now a HUGE and beautiful hill on the Southeast corner of campus that is used to play ultimate frisbee (a much loved Mormon game for some reason) and other sport-like endeavors that I have never participated in. Hopefully people roll down it. Not rolling down that hill should be a crime. 

This is simply to serve as an illustration. This is not the KMB-less hill. Apparently I can't find any pictures of that  by googling it? Weird. 

With this killing of the KMB came some awesome additions to the RB. Now, I'll be honest I can barely remember the RB before the additions which were built to house Living Legends, Ballroom, and the Young Ambassadors who had previously been in the KMB. But I do remember being annoyed at how long the construction took. And even though new rooms weren't built for the folk dancers, we have definitely benefited in sometimes being able to use a couple of the new rooms for our rehearsals. The ballroom is particularly awesome, being massive in size and having a huge and delightful window on one wall. 

Another big change was from so-called "rape hill" becoming respectful, not creepy and actually gorgeous! When I moved to BYU there was this pathway that, for me, linked the Richards Building with all my dance classes to my home by J-Dawgs in a way which would allow me to walk all the way home with no human contact. This is sometimes optimal. I would only wander upon the occasional duck, and as some of you may know, ducks are actually my favorite animals. Of all. (In fact as I typed this, I decided to make the commitment in adding a virtual pet to this blog. Donald the Duck. He's down on the right hand side of my blog. Go say hi!) The problems for me with "rape hill", other than it's horrible name and reputation, were the signs. They look like they should have blood dripping from it. Nice call on the creepy font BYU grounds.


However, this pathway has since been cleaned up and redone, the creek widened and even more full of ducks (!), benches and tables added, gardens added and maintained, and general joy infused. The new version is also something not google-able. So, just imagine it. The beauty. The ducks. The joy.

The most recent change is still happening. Many buildings whose names I am utterly unaware of (and a greenhouse) have been taken down in order to make room for a huge and beautiful new Life Sciences building at the end of the new duck pathway aforementioned.

Maybe it's just me but...that building looks seriously cool and large and useful for the studying of life sciences. So game on BYU. 

This reminds me of something my dear folk teacher Delynne used to say "The only thing constant in life is change". Keep changing BYU. I'm cool with it.