My Least Favorite Building On Campus

Every student in any school has a least favorite area of the school. Once you get to college, it becomes a least favorite building. For some people, it might be because of a class, or a teacher, or a really lousy party. For me, it is all of the above and then some, I think. I left the building on 11 May 1995 with forcefulness, and I had hoped that I'd never return. But the sadists at Atmospheric Sciences had to schedule ATMOS 120 in room 112, so on 12 January 1996, I took a deep breath and returned to the building of my discontent. After that went reasonably well, I determined that I would attempt the feared CHEM_ 109, again, thrusting myself far into the upper reaches of 601 South Mathews Street.

Top Ten Reasons Why CHEMISTRY ANNEX Is My Least Favorite Building At UIUC
  1. The rather addictive (and at times completely impossible) solubility game on the computers in 212.
  2. It looks like a tumor sprouting from Davenport Hall next door.
  3. It has a torturously slow elevator.
  4. The CHEM_ 110 Cobalt Experience. (I just mean the five lab periods to do the lab.)
  5. The CHEM_ 110 Cobalt Aftermath. (A few people know what I mean.)
  6. Sean Daly's (my CHEM_ 110 TA's) scary-looking picture is on the wall.
  7. It's the home of the first class I have ever failed, CHEM_ 109.
  8. The building does not contain a meter stick.
  9. The CHEM_ 110 Cobalt Experience. (It counts as two, believe me. At the very least, I'll take one for the boiling on the hot plates (a seven-hour lab session) and one for the ammonia explosion when the rubber stopper cracked.)

    10. And the NUMBER TEN reason (sorry about the numbering--I tried to reverse it) that CHEMISTRY ANNEX is my least favorite building at UIUC:
  10. It is where I found out (from the computers in 212) my friend Angela's CHEM_ 108 grade; therefore it is also where I found out she was about to be academically tossed from the university.
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