Back from the Wasatch Front
Monday, January 29th, 2007The area around the UofU was, as I had heard, absolutely gorgeous. Mind, I was viewing it with bare trees and in the middle of an uncharacteristic and awful inversion that made the 10,000-foot peaks framing the campus barely visible. The Sugarhouse area (which is more affordable than the Avenues) had its own charm that was a little less immediately obvious, but no less present.
Unfortunately, the campus itself didn’t quite have the same charm as the areas around it. I now realize why the university website generally shows long shots that feature the campus’ position against the mountains, not the specific beauty of the school itself. I’m used to a state university setting, mind, but BSU has a very traditional academia feeling: heavily pedestrian, parking lots kept to the outside edges, no roads running through the campus proper. UofU is very much banded by roads and parking lots, which makes it feel less like “going to a university” and more like “going to a random building and talking about business.”
Now, granted: the program is very good, and I would happily attend. And the city itself is great.
But would it have killed the original architects to scratch in a few more spaces for lawns?
In other news, the more I read, the more impractical the iPhone seems for me and the more I want it.
