What Are Your College Treasures?

College Life
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<p>There’s so much about Mount Holyoke! However, I’d say it’s probably our million-dollar tree.</p>

<p>Basically, there’s this big, beautiful beech tree outside our library. When they were building a new addition to connect our main library to our college archives building, they planned to stretch it across a path that would have required cutting down a beech tree. The tree is extremely old, HUGE, and possibly the most breath-taking tree you could ever see. (Really. I’ve seen visitors stand beneath the tree and just stare at it for the longest periods of time. You can’t help it.) So the students and faculty threw a fit when they heard about the plan, and the college ended up spending a million extra dollars to build around the tree. They also paid for additional precautions to make sure that its root system is never disturbed. And everyone on campus, or anyone who has ever seen the tree, absolutely agrees that it was well worth the million dollars, and then some. It’s amazing. I walk past it at least once a day just to look at it, and it never stops inspiring me.</p>

<p>And speaking of our library, we also have a 2 1/2 floor - not 2, not 3, but 2 1/2 - which I think is pretty neat. :)</p>

<p>Edit: It’s the Copper Beech mentioned here: [Botanic</a> Garden - Trees](<a href=“http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/botan/arboretum/trees.shtml]Botanic”>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/botan/arboretum/trees.shtml)</p>

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<p>I’ll say something about what I hope will be my campus next year (09’ HS grad)</p>

<p>Columbia’s tunnels.</p>

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<p>North Philly.</p>

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<p>The frog wall - you run your finger down the holes on the side of one building, and it makes a sound like frogs.</p>

<p>The tree house that the archies build every year.</p>

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<p>I love my apartment. It’s huge and I only have to share it with one other person. Plus, I get my own room and a priceless view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I didn’t even have pay noticeably more than average (for NYU). Wall Street is about 5 minutes away by walking, or less! If it weren’t for student housing, there’s no way I would be able to afford anything even remotely like this located in the heart of the Financial District in Manhattan.</p>

<p>Is it a bad thing that NYU Housing is my favorite part of NYU?</p>

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<p>BC. Bapst Library honestly looks like it just came out of Harry Potter. its UNBELIEVEABLE for a HP nut like me. and in the corner windows you can get a view of Boston. </p>

<p>Gasson Hall is our iconic building thats on all of the pamphlets and everything. beautiful and gothic inside and out. being restored right now so it looks sick. expecially when seeing it from anywhere on campus.</p>

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<p>I’ve been on the rooftops of so many buildings here at Penn – rooftops that I am fairly certain most students will never see. The view from the top of the High Rises is amazing.</p>

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<p>dont go to uc santa cruz, but the caves there are pretty cool</p>