First things first -- biologists are creepy. Turns out the building is absolutely full of dead animals. In the first floor display case are a selection of sectioned animals, dissected animals, and animals in jars.
Upstairs, the animal labs include a stuffed bird room, a live frog dissection lab (in all fairness, they may not dissect the frogs alive, but they were alive when I saw them), an ape skeleton, and, last but not least, a stuffed tiger.
Who knew URI owned a tiger?! The best part was, of course, that while I was mesmerized by the presence of this beast, all the biology students walked right by it like it was a lamp. "Oh that old thing? That's just our stuffed tiger."
The next thing I noticed was how modern the building is. Not only does it have huge glass windows, shiny new emergency equipment, and white walls, but it has modern student areas as well. The first floor foyer has multiple tables for students to meet, eat, and study at, and each floor has a quiet zone for students to work on homework. One floor even had a little table with a white board, for student study sessions.
Now, it may be that all of the new buildings are this fancy. But I come from a building that looks like it was originally designed as a 1970s elementary school, and hasn't been updated since. When I started working there we still had blackboards. Currently, our bathroom includes this very charming sign:
So needless to say, I was blown away by this amazing building, with its lack of bathroom peepholes, its modern architecture that includes huge windows and ceiling tiles, and its stuffed tiger and birds.
In all honesty though, this room kind of creeped me out.
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