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On 2020-05-19 8:09 AM, Jeff Findley wrote:
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On 2020-05-18 1:25 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
That piece of paper I received from the Aerospace Engineering department
at Purdue and my current employer of 30 years both seem to belive
otherwise.

Love the Purdue campus. So spread out and green. Ton's of lawn to hang
out in on a summer day. So unlike the packed in campus at UIUC. At least
the engineering campus. It now has a 2nd quad to the north but it's
still pretty compact (UIUC).

I really loved going to Purdue. The main mall area was awesome in the
summer. If I had an hour between classes and the weather was nice, I'd
just pick a spot on the grass and read while I listened to music. That
was certainly one of my favorite things to do when I had some "down
time".

I've driven through UIUC, but never stopped. My oldest daughter just
graduated from Western Illinois University with a Masters of Fine Arts
in Scenic Design (theater). I think it was last year when I was driving
there to pick up her stuff, the U-Haul trailer I was towing had a
serious issue and needed to be swapped out. So, I stopped at the U-Haul
dealer near there and then drove through UIUC on my way back to the
highway. It looked quite a nice campus from what I could see.

Jeff


I don't mean to knock my alma mater. I wouldn't replace that experience
for anything in the world. Esp. getting to hang out with friends on a
Friday night and listen to the Level 4/5 Jazz band at Treno's do Maynard
Ferguson tunes like it was a walk in the park. When those grad students
weren't "downstate" working on a masters in music they were doing gigs
up in Chi-town.

I enjoyed the time I spent there, but it was a different campus layout.
In a way I preferred the compactness, esp. in the winter. One could
"walk the corridor" (north side of Green St) i.e. college dept. through
college dept. in separate buildings but only outside long enough to
cross the streets between them for like 4 city blocks. Nice break when
it was 15F outside.

It's more picturesque now. The old computer science building that was
there when I was there which used to look like a small bank branch, got
totally encased in a huge multistory building. The north end of the
campus is completely built up and has a second quad and a whole lab
devoted to making semiconductors. Didn't exist when I was there, (the

Same for Purdue. Back then the Aerospace Engineering building was in
Grissom Hall. It was an older building and wasn't really suited for the
late 80s to early 90s as teaching was transitioning to more work on
computers.

Several years ago, Purdue built the Neil Armstrong building for the
Aerospace Engineering department. It's everything you'd want in a new
20th century building. It's absolutely huge, beautiful, and functional
all at the same time. Grissom Hall was also "reinvented" several years
ago, but I've not been in it to see how it was renovated.

The Neil Armstrong building replaced some "temporary" buildings that
were built after WW-II due to the large influx of students going to
Purdue using the GI Bill. Those "temporary" buildings stood for many
decades longer than they were ever intended. They were an eyesore for
sure.

And today there are many new buildings that weren't there when I was
there. Lots of campuses have really "built up" in the last three
decades or so.

Jeff
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