Posted May 7, 200619 yr As promised, NIU part two! ----- Lowden Hall ----- McMurry Hall ----- Montgomery Hall ----- Music Building ----- Psychology-Computer Science Building (yep, that's the name, very weird combination) Right next to the building ----- Reavis Hall (left), Cole Hall (center), Zulauf Hall (right), Holmes Tower in the background Reavis Hall (left), Zulauf Hall (center), DuSable Hall (right) Watson Hall (left), DuSable Hall (right) Zulauf Hall (aka the giant cereal box) ----- Still Hall Still Hall Gymnasium ----- Swen Parson Hall (college of Law) Walkway over Normal Road that connects to the library ----- Wirtz Hall (it looks better on the inside) ----- Williston Hall ----- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commons ----- Larusso Lagoon Looking at the sprawl in the background ----- MISCELLANEOUS Stadium Drive streetscape University Plaza Apartments, as viewed from DuSable Hall Normal Road streetscape Garden Road streetscape Village Commons (two story shopping center with a lot of restaurants) Lucinda Avenue streetscape Lucinda Avenue heading east into town ----- View from my dorm room (11th floor) looking west (nothing but farm fields and the Lincoln Highway) Another view from my room looking south Another view looking east (great view of Holmes Tower and DeKalb) ----- Kishwaukee Park, the eastern limits of campus Kishwaukee River ----- My pictures don't really do NIU justice; this campus is very beautiful and you can only get the full experience by being here in person! Alright, I'm done now; I'm going to bed and then I'm going study for next week's finals tomorrow!
May 7, 200619 yr I've never been to DeKalb, or seen pictures of the campus. The older part looks quite pleasant, and as the new trees get some growth on them, the newer parts will likely come along. Good tour.
May 7, 200619 yr Well done. That view out your room with just the farms is weird... for some reason the idea of a college bordering right on the edge of town like that seems strange to me.
May 7, 200619 yr More awesome pics, maybe you could hook us up with some downtown Dekalb pictures sometime? I'd be interested to see what it looks like.
May 7, 200619 yr More awesome pics, maybe you could hook us up with some downtown Dekalb pictures sometime? I'd be interested to see what it looks like. I'll second that motion!
May 8, 200619 yr I'd love to do some downtown DeKalb photos. Downtown is very interesting; kind of run-down; but there are some treasures, such as the mural and the Egyptian Theatre. I may be able to squeeze some time in on Wednesday afternoon to take photos; but I have to study for finals and get all packed up because I'm coming back home to Ohio on Friday! If I don't get any pics now, I will definitely get some next fall. And thanks for all the nice comments! :-)
May 9, 200619 yr Well, to be fair, most of Illinois was part of a vast prairie (Great Plains) with very few trees back in the pioneer days and earlier. And when it was settled, prairies soon succumbed to farmland; thus old-growth trees are a luxury in this part of the country (as well as hills)! As for DeKalb not looking like a college town; I think it does in most aspects. The campus is fairly spread out, since we are on the edge of town with nothing but farm fields to the west. Hopefully when I take pictures of downtown as well as the main intersection near campus (Lincoln Highway and Annie Glidden Road, see map) it'll show DeKalb's real personality along with a little grit and grime :) But one can argue, and I would totally agree with them, that DeKalb and its neighboring city Sycamore (which has a gorgeous downtown w/courthouse) is turning very suburban and sprawl-y. http://www.niu.edu/campus_map.html
June 12, 200619 yr It looks like a great school, but unfortunately Chicago's sprawl is going to eat up the area soon.
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