They're tearing down my dorm

Saturday, May 28 2:45 p.m. - Decommissioning Service for Wahlstrom Hall – Wahlstrom Hall

This is depressing in a way. I loved that building, it was a dump, the rooms were tiny, it was home. Home to me and close to 200 other geeks, freaks, weridos, and stoners. It was a place where you could walk up to anybody in the lounge and start a conversation about the most recent Star Trek Next Gen episode and they had a passionate opinion.

The Horde, (even when the people who didn't like us called us the Spotties) was born in Wahlstrom, concieved in Pitmann J-Term of 1992, but Born Fall 1993 when the boys got section 202. I lived in 303, close enough to be close to them, up a flight and a half of stairs so they wouldn't stop by all the time. I chose carefully I could have kept my room in 203 and been 6 steps away. The boys occupied that section for the next three years.

The building was not as important as the experiences had there.. but it's also intwined in those experiences. Me and Cutter building lofts for cash at the start of our junior year. Me being the only girl in the dorm with a power drill and two sewing machines in an 8x10 room.

I'm sure a more modern comfortable dorm will go up in it's place. Probably one where the rooms have more than a desk lamp. I'm sure that the feel of the new dorm will be different but GAC will still have it's freaks, geeks, and weirdos, and they will have a dorm on south campus.