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Developing: Fire Breaks Out in Earth and Space Sciences Building

thinkmag:

A source with the University Police Department has confirmed that a fire broke out in the Earth and Space Sciences building late Monday night.

I hope this isn’t anything serious. However, this reminded me of freshman year at Stony Brook, when I used to go up to the roof of ESS for a project for my Introduction to Astronomy class where we had to chart the position of the moon every week for two months or something like that. In retrospect, there was nothing stopping anyone from bringing a bunch of beer (or weed, but I don’t smoke) to the roof of the building, looking up at the stars and having a get-together up there. It seems kind of like a perfect thing for existentialist college students to do. If only I knew at 17 or 18 what I know now…

So basically, I hope nobody got trashed and decided to start a bonfire on the roof.

(Source: sbpress)

While watching the Rangers and Knicks win tonight (a rare double, I know) I decided to go and find this. This is an award I got at the end of my undergraduate career from the History Department at Stony Brook, and in particular from Professor Michael Barnhart (who’s now the department chair). I didn’t attend the main graduation convocation in 2007 because I didn’t think much of finishing four years of school. My parents asked me a month later why I didn’t go, which seemed like an odd time to ask me about it. More importantly for this story, however, is that for whatever reason I didn’t make it to the history department graduation ceremony, either. I didn’t think I’d have received this award (which I would’ve gotten at said department graduation) or anything else for that matter. Of course, that isn’t the only reason I should have attended my department’s ceremony, but I certainly regretted it more after knowing that my favorite professor was responsible for giving me the award. There’s also a letter from the Department Chairperson at that time congratulating me, part of which read like this: Professor Barnhart nominated you for “outstandign work on the politics of Postwar Greece and his exquisite portrayal of generals Mauric Gamelin and Charles deGaulle in our simulaiton seminar - with the stature to match! In short, I felt like a pretty big idiot for not being there, and still do. It’s certainly a regret to not receive this in person, but I still feel good about having it. I’m also planning on going to sit in on one of the professor’s lectures again soon, because those were (and I’m sure still are) pretty great.

While watching the Rangers and Knicks win tonight (a rare double, I know) I decided to go and find this. This is an award I got at the end of my undergraduate career from the History Department at Stony Brook, and in particular from Professor Michael Barnhart (who’s now the department chair). I didn’t attend the main graduation convocation in 2007 because I didn’t think much of finishing four years of school. My parents asked me a month later why I didn’t go, which seemed like an odd time to ask me about it.

More importantly for this story, however, is that for whatever reason I didn’t make it to the history department graduation ceremony, either. I didn’t think I’d have received this award (which I would’ve gotten at said department graduation) or anything else for that matter. Of course, that isn’t the only reason I should have attended my department’s ceremony, but I certainly regretted it more after knowing that my favorite professor was responsible for giving me the award. There’s also a letter from the Department Chairperson at that time congratulating me, part of which read like this:

Professor Barnhart nominated you for “outstandign work on the politics of Postwar Greece and his exquisite portrayal of generals Mauric Gamelin and Charles deGaulle in our simulaiton seminar - with the stature to match!

In short, I felt like a pretty big idiot for not being there, and still do. It’s certainly a regret to not receive this in person, but I still feel good about having it. I’m also planning on going to sit in on one of the professor’s lectures again soon, because those were (and I’m sure still are) pretty great.