<p>MS is on the 5th floor, I believe, which from the other side seems like ground level (Young Hall is right across from the courtyard).</p>
<p>The corridor that connects Boelter and MS is on the 5th floor - at least that's the one I know of and shown during orientation.</p>
<p>I don't know about the elevator situation at Boelter, but it's true of MS. The elevator by MS5200 doesn't take you to all floors.</p>
<p>You can enter MS on the 4th floor on the side near Kerckhoff, whereas under that little bridge/breezeway thingy connecting the two parts of MS, it's the 5th floor.</p>
<p>I can confirm what ucapplicant05 mentioned; not all elevators inside the Math Sciences building can take you to the first floor and/or ninth floor. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>None of this made sense until I realized that the floors of both buildings went underground.</p>
<p>-___-" freshmen..</p>
<p>hahahhaha...is there really any difference between south and north?</p>
<p>Well, I feel fine walking around the North Campus area. On the other hand, walking in Boelter alone gives me the creeps. Dim the lights and the hallways look like something out of a horror movie.</p>
<p>A long time ago, a friend and I decided to wander the halls of Boelter. 5 minutes later we find ourselves in tiny corridors with dead ends. All of a sudden the door next to me pops open and some scary man walks out.</p>
<p>I now know better. </p>
<p>Not scary vs. Scary =)</p>
<p>boelter is even creepier if you go all the way down to the first floor.</p>
<p>I'm going to try and avoid boelter now...</p>
<p>Boelter is fairly straightforward. You can exit on the fifth floor on one side and on the first on the other. Pretty simple. MS is the confusing building. You enter on the 4th floor from the north, fifth floor on the east, second floor from the west (I believe its currently shutoff due to construction), and any floor through Boelter on the South. Floors 1-3 have a different floorplan from the others I believe (since they're buried into the hill), and I think only two of the elevators actually go to all the floors. Also part of the building is separated by the walkway. Confused yet?</p>
<p>Boelter is the most depressing building on campus. There's a garden in the middle (second floor nonetheless), but I'm pretty sure all the flowers there have slit their stems from depression. The whole building just smells like... engineering, which means it has the weirdest combination of chemicals, BO, and Asian food. Smoke from smokers outside the building occassionally wafts into the classrooms on the fifth floor. Some of the rooms aren't exactly well lit. You will hear all kinds of languages that you do not speak and see people in conditions that you would never expect to see. Despite all of this, I have chosen to live my entire academic life at UCLA in the corridors of Boelter and MS. At least once in a while I get to change it up and go to the brand new PAB.</p>
<p>Have any of you ever gone indoors from LS to the Biomed Library? You start on the second floor, then you have to go down a flight of stairs which will place you on the second floor. Following that you go down another set of stairs which places you on the 5th floor.</p>
<p>Going up is equally as fun, when you start on the 5th floor, and head up stairs to the second floor, and then again up stairs to the second floor.</p>
<p>Actually I've done this too. The first time I had to go to the Biomed Library once to research (on friggin gorillas), entered in LS... and somehow ended up back on the street under the walkway connecting the two buildings. I found the indoors way on the way back.</p>
<p>Another good one is the time I (and some people in my class) got locked into the Botanical Garden. Apparently after 6 they lock the main gate and you can't get out the normal way. We ended up walking around for a good 15 minutes looking for a way out before we ended up crossing some maintence road, entering some building which I still don't know the name of, and wandering the hallways until we were dumped off somewhere on South Campus. So many ways to get lost at this school.</p>
<p>McGizzle, you have the best characterizations!</p>
<p>The rectangular bushes outside Boelter Hall smell terrible...
You know which one I'm talking about. :rolleyes:</p>