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OT - How different is campus since you were there?

Last time there was 1996 and stayed a night at Hale house as was sent to recruit for Andersen Consulting (pre-Accenture naming).

At the time it seemed a few changes were afoot but I think if I went now it would ve unrecognizable.
 
Improviser said:
UConn didn't have the Rec Center with its exercise machines and swimming pool.
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The Rec Center pool is the old Brundage Pool, home of the swim teams before they built Woff-Zackin natatorium and dropped men's swimming. They are renovating the new pool now (its attached to Gample) and the women's team is using the Rec Center pool for practice
 
Improviser said:
Dairy Bar was phenomenal. I just read a new creamery (maybe not University connected) has opened on Browns Road.
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It's owned by the Stearns family. Something like 9th or 10th generation in town. All the Mountain Dairy milk you see around is from them. I took my family down this weekend.

It's phenomenal and so far a wayyyyy shorter line than you'll get at the Dairy Bar during the school year. However, you don't get the chance of seeing recruits and judging them based on their order.
 
My older sister (8 years older) was on campus in the mid 80s to early 90s. I vaguely remember her taking forever to graduate. She enjoyed her time on campus I think. The big change during her time was Gampel. I was there mid-late 90s. Campus looked pretty similar at that point. I think the South Campus doors were locked in my first year or second year. Then the buildings torn down in my last year. But no new South Campus buildings during my time. I think they were built the year after I left. My older brother (1 year older) had a stretch in the Navy and ended up on campus after me. He was early 2000s. In his time everything looked totally different. New south campus was complete and had been for a few years. The center of campus seemed completely new. So my memories of visiting my sister in the 80s and my time in the 90s, campus felt the same. Shortly after in the 2000s when I visited my brother it seemed like a new place. I haven't been back since about 2003-2004... I think. I have no idea what it looks like now.
 
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Oh... I forgot. I drove zamboni at the old outdoor hockey arena for 1 year. Fun campus job. That's gone. I would play hockey late at night after the place closed. With fellow employees and some non-employee friends. On a cold night the combination of the cold air and a nice resurfacing machine made for really great ice. Super fast. Played a lot more hockey later while in North Dakota. But the ice at that outdoor rink is still the best I've ever played on.
 
MexicoHusky said:
Oh... I forgot. I drove zamboni at the old outdoor hockey arena for 1 year. Fun campus job. That's gone. I would play hockey late at night after the place closed. With fellow employees and some non-employee friends. On a cold night the combination of the cold air and a nice resurfacing machine made for really great ice. Super fast. Played a lot more hockey later while in North Dakota. But the ice at that outdoor rink is still the best I've ever played on.
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Nice memory. Our dorm had an intramural team and I skated on that ice. Great ice but the rink was very cold for spectators sipping on their brandy.

I had an ice skating class two days a week as part of PE requirements at 8AM. I never missed that class unlike all my others. Probably due to the cute French instructor and my desire to improve my skating. BTW, I was the only one with hockey skates.
 
HCCForever said:
Nice memory. Our dorm had an intramural team and I skated on that ice. Great ice but the rink was very cold for spectators sipping on their brandy.

I had an ice skating class two days a week as part of PE requirements at 8AM. I never missed that class unlike all my others. Probably due to the cute French instructor and my desire to improve my skating. BTW, I was the only one with hockey skates.
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How did everyone else skate without skates? In socks? 😀
 
I was an Area Coordinaror for West Campus back in 1980. I always wondered why such a central location has not been rennovated given all of the other upgrades on campus. Hopefully it's on the shortlist for a major refurbishment or demolition.
 
Had a ski slope with a tow rope when I was there. Off Horsebarn Hill Rd,
Ceiling paint was flaking off and snowing down inside Castleman Building. Steam was cranking and windows open on April days. That was tough not to daydream. The ladies had already shed their winter garb. Good baseball at JOC Field.
 
Back in my day, we had to walk to the dairy bar over horse barn hill. Uphill both ways.

And we had some great jalapeno mac and cheese.




I didn't go to UConn for undergrad
 
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TMB4405 said:
I am in your age demo. Forst two years we were wrapped in plastic wrap.
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Legend had it that they (UCONN Engineers) didn’t factor the weight of the books in so that’s why bricks were falling off. I also remember there being a huge pool of water on the plaza level of the library for days after a good amount of rain.

Knew some engineering majors and some mentioning average exam scores being around 50 and 20-30 point curves so that always tracked for me.
 
I visited a few months ago to look around the whole campus. I have been to Gampel many timess but usually am only around the sports complex and at night. I was a student there in the 1960s. The campus is in many ways unrecognizable from then. Mostly impressive for anyone new to it, missing a lot of the green and open spaces that existed in the 60s especially behind the old field house from North Eagleville Rd. all the way up to the new sports complexes, behind the Student Union, the buildings next to the Towers dorms that was a wide open field where we Towers guys played football and softball. Sadly, while the ice cream is still great, the current dairy bar set up is far more generic and less cozy than it used to be.

The shopping areas off campus are totally different and way better All in all, a very big change over the years mostly impressive but losing a bit of the breathing space. People new to it won’t notice the difference.
 
The only place to eat on weekends was Subway. And if you dare buying one, you better scoff it down or be prepared to share it with 20 people
 
Was there yesterday for the hockey game (I actually liked the arena), and am an ‘04 graduate. The campus is incredibly different from just 21 years ago. Ted’s is still there (but expanded with a new covered patio like portion to the side), but Huskies/Civic Pub are gone. Not a big fan of Huskies now in downtown, it’s more of a restaurant type feel which is fine - but not what we all remember. McMahon, Northwest, North, Towers, Alumni and East campus all seem the same with some minor renovations. South campus was “new” for me back then, but now that’s even “old” as they put a whole new dorm smack in the middle of the quad. It makes no sense and is quite ugly in my opinion and completely took away the quad. X-Lot is forever gone as there’s a huge building there now. I heard where Sgt Peps/Civic Pub was is going to be torn down for apartments.

Love downtown Storrs though, wish we had those amenities. The Student Union is much better also, and weird seeing the old “outside” portion while being inside.

Overall, it’s a beautiful campus but looks a lot diff than just 20 years ago.
 
Deepster said:
The first time I was up there where my daughter was 21, she asked if we wanted to grab a pregame drink at Ted's. As we walked in, she said "You've been here before, right?" LOL.

I pointed to the men's room and said "The last time I was here, I took a leak in the garbage can in there." She said "Why would you do that?" and I said "Because there were two guys whizzing in the toilet, one at the urinal and one at the sink. The garbage can seemed like the next logical spot."
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I never peed in the garbage can in the men's room at Ted's. But my wife has.
 
Taco said:
Legend had it that they (UCONN Engineers) didn’t factor the weight of the books in so that’s why bricks were falling off. I also remember there being a huge pool of water on the plaza level of the library for days after a good amount of rain.

Knew some engineering majors and some mentioning average exam scores being around 50 and 20-30 point curves so that always tracked for me.
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Even tougher without calculators. Never enough time to work the problems through. Purposeful. Imagine doing four blackboards of Fourier series. Lost a lot of classmates along the way..
 

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