Campus tours

I am planning on heading to my alma mater to take in Saturday's UB-Temple football game with some friends.

Nothing terribly out of the ordinary since I try to make it to at least one football and basketball game a year. And it is not as if UB Stadium, which was almost completely empty (even during games) during my time as a student, is going to tug at my heartstrings.

But I was thinking that I have not really set foot upon the college campus I spent plenty of years on. I have not peered into the academic buildings, strolled from one side of campus to the other as I did countless times or stopped by the Commons.

I will not be able to Saturday, but I was planning on participating in the Linda Yalem run later this month. Maybe after that I can spend some time on campus, reminiscing a bit. Is it a strange sentiment?

After all, I am a Southtowns native and now live in Buffalo -- only a few miles from UB and not a flight away as I am sure is the case for many. And though I think the north campus was pleasing to the eye, I don't think it would be confused with Princeton or Duke.

A friend of mine recently went with her boyfriend on a trip to his alma mater to do a similar type of thing. So it is not all that weird then, is it?

---Geoff Nason

Comments

[McBea]

When I returned to UB after about 9 years away I was shocked to see how shabby things had gotten in some of the classrooms. I had to laugh, though, when I picked up an issue of the Spectrum and the same parking issues we had in the 80s were on the front page in the 90s...the same suggestions were being made as though they were brand new ideas, and still nothing had been done.

Enjoy your walk down memory lane!

[Heh]

I thought you lived in the Southern Tier!

[outofbuffalo10]

Not at all! I graduated in 1997 and I'm going back to my alma mater next week for homecoming. I grabbed a group of friends who are also graduates, all in their 30's as well, and we're meeting for a weekend full of football, campus tours, and story telling.

You spent some of the most formative years of your life at your college. I don't find it weird to go back, I think of it like visiting a place you called "home" for 4 years.