GuyWithAStick
Captain Basic
Please note: I am NOT a professional photographer, and far from one. A good chunk of my pictures are blurry or fuzzy. Please know this before judging my photography skills.
Day 1-7/27/15: Purdue University
As a now high-schooler, I must visit Colleges and stuff like that. Wanting to(obviously) be a Mechanical Engineer, it was only natural that I go visit Purdue University. And naturally, the first place we visit is their Engineering Hall!
The roof was so cool!
I also got to take a picture with Neil Armstrong;
Yes, that's me. Hello world. I am a person.
So the car was parked, and we walked to the Engineering Building. I passed the Physics Building, which should also be useful in what I plan on becoming. :wink:
The blur is real.
Here we are! The back entrance!
Time to explore the magical world of Engineering at a College level!
Looking through the laboratories, I notice that someone made a semi-fab hexagonal Ferris Wheel!
Who else here would ride it?
Because I went in the back entrance, I didn't see the "Main Hall" first. So I lugged myself over there, and they had a model of the Apollo 1 capsule!
And a view of (most) the whole entrance hall!
Yeah, nothing too special besides the Apollo 1 capsule...
...Besides this fab looking space/air craft model above the actual doors!
Looks spy-ish. Secret Gov........... NSA CONTROLLED MESSAGE
...And a chunk of the moon!
From the Apollo 17 mission!
It wasn't that big though...
It was actually really tiny...
...Back to the main hall, here's a look at the glass walls of the larger labs!
In the bottom one, they were making boats and Go-Karts(or they were reverse engineering them. I couldn't really tell)!
A look at the front doors, the awesome spy plane thing, and the walkways over the main hall:
A closer look at the Spy Plane:
Another look at that Apollo 1 model(there really wasn't much to photograph in the main hall...)
Now for some more(smaller) models!
The oh-so fab Concorde.
Here's a cool sculpture thing that reminded me of a Gerst. Sky Fly:
Now to the Outdoors! There were some footprints of the Moon Boots the Apollo crew wore in the grass outside the Engineering Hall:
My shoes(size 9.5(8.5 for those UK people looking at this)) for comparison:
Next we hit the Student Union and had lunch in one of those fab 50's diners. They have some pretty good shakes there. Not to mention this fab sign outside the store:
Then we drove around the campus for a bit, looking at some cool buildings and stuff. Like this church-like building we found:
We then passed the(huge) Rec. Sports Center:
It goes from future-y glass to brick block...
...Back into future-y glass!
...And into a field house.
That's Purdue. It's a pretty neat school. Don't really know what else to say about it. :? I guess it had good milkshakes....?
Then we made the 3 1/2 hour haul to Santa Claus(well, Ferdinand) to sleep.
Only in Indiana.
There was corn
And beans
And corn with beans
And a bunch of other farmland stuff
We finally made it after a 1 1/2 hour detour, as we made a few wrong turns. That's not a really good thing when in rural Indiana with a bunch of rednecks with guard dogs passing by. And on top of that, our Hotel didn't have a proper sign, so we instead took an exit on the highway for 7 miles instead of turning into the hotel parking lot. We then finally made it to our hotel.
Thankfully, it was a really nice hotel. Brand new, and only 10 minutes from Holiday World! If you're going to Holiday World, remember the Comfort Inn in Ferdinand, Indiana. Great place.
Up next, Holiday World and Splashin' Safari!
Day 1-7/27/15: Purdue University
As a now high-schooler, I must visit Colleges and stuff like that. Wanting to(obviously) be a Mechanical Engineer, it was only natural that I go visit Purdue University. And naturally, the first place we visit is their Engineering Hall!
The roof was so cool!
I also got to take a picture with Neil Armstrong;
Yes, that's me. Hello world. I am a person.
So the car was parked, and we walked to the Engineering Building. I passed the Physics Building, which should also be useful in what I plan on becoming. :wink:
The blur is real.
Here we are! The back entrance!
Time to explore the magical world of Engineering at a College level!
Looking through the laboratories, I notice that someone made a semi-fab hexagonal Ferris Wheel!
Who else here would ride it?
Because I went in the back entrance, I didn't see the "Main Hall" first. So I lugged myself over there, and they had a model of the Apollo 1 capsule!
And a view of (most) the whole entrance hall!
Yeah, nothing too special besides the Apollo 1 capsule...
...Besides this fab looking space/air craft model above the actual doors!
Looks spy-ish. Secret Gov........... NSA CONTROLLED MESSAGE
...And a chunk of the moon!
From the Apollo 17 mission!
It wasn't that big though...
It was actually really tiny...
...Back to the main hall, here's a look at the glass walls of the larger labs!
In the bottom one, they were making boats and Go-Karts(or they were reverse engineering them. I couldn't really tell)!
A look at the front doors, the awesome spy plane thing, and the walkways over the main hall:
A closer look at the Spy Plane:
Another look at that Apollo 1 model(there really wasn't much to photograph in the main hall...)
Now for some more(smaller) models!
The oh-so fab Concorde.
Here's a cool sculpture thing that reminded me of a Gerst. Sky Fly:
Now to the Outdoors! There were some footprints of the Moon Boots the Apollo crew wore in the grass outside the Engineering Hall:
My shoes(size 9.5(8.5 for those UK people looking at this)) for comparison:
Next we hit the Student Union and had lunch in one of those fab 50's diners. They have some pretty good shakes there. Not to mention this fab sign outside the store:
Then we drove around the campus for a bit, looking at some cool buildings and stuff. Like this church-like building we found:
We then passed the(huge) Rec. Sports Center:
It goes from future-y glass to brick block...
...Back into future-y glass!
...And into a field house.
That's Purdue. It's a pretty neat school. Don't really know what else to say about it. :? I guess it had good milkshakes....?
Then we made the 3 1/2 hour haul to Santa Claus(well, Ferdinand) to sleep.
Only in Indiana.
There was corn
And beans
And corn with beans
And a bunch of other farmland stuff
We finally made it after a 1 1/2 hour detour, as we made a few wrong turns. That's not a really good thing when in rural Indiana with a bunch of rednecks with guard dogs passing by. And on top of that, our Hotel didn't have a proper sign, so we instead took an exit on the highway for 7 miles instead of turning into the hotel parking lot. We then finally made it to our hotel.
Thankfully, it was a really nice hotel. Brand new, and only 10 minutes from Holiday World! If you're going to Holiday World, remember the Comfort Inn in Ferdinand, Indiana. Great place.
Up next, Holiday World and Splashin' Safari!
