<p>Wow. Looks like they took down the construction walls in Parrish, giving everyone a first peek at the new first floor student lounge adjacent to the mailboxes. Looks like it is going to be nice:</p>
<p>Here's a link to the floorplans of the renovated building to get your bearings:</p>
<p>More photos today of the almost finished Parrish renovations, including the front entrance stairs leading up to admissions, the new student lounge, the Parrish parlors, and the main room in the admissions office:</p>
<p>We snuck around the construction site one night after dropping D off at fall break. It is really nice.</p>
<p>I think that these student lounges, scattered around campus in dorms and academic buildings are an interesting part of Swarthmore. This mailroom lounge, being right at the bottom of the stairs to the admissions office, should be a great way to for prospectives to actually see and perhaps interact with real, live college students.</p>
<p>wow! that looks so nice! when i was up there for Discovery Weekend, a group of students and I got lost in there and saw the construction going on. Looks like it will be well worth it.</p>
<p>I agree that the lounges add a certain atmosphere to Swat. I enjoyed the ones in Kohlberg and the Science Center this past weekend.</p>
<p>Haha, that's Parish? I fell asleep in a couch there on Saturday night of Discovery Weekend while watching the flatscreen TV.</p>
<p>Living almost directly above the lounge, it is very nice, I must say.</p>
<p>(and it will indeed give prospective students a chance to meet real, live swat students...then again, having part of admissions on Parrish 3rd (next to real,live dorm rooms...like mine.) will accomplish this rather nicely as well, heh. Just had to add that. I'm waiting for the influx of the awkward spec/shower-bound, still tired student encounters...)</p>
<p>Or, somebody on Parrish 3rd could get Jim Bock in the next game of assassin....</p>
<p>I do think it's kind of cool that Admissions, Deans, the Prez, and student rooms are all in the same building. Makes it hard for the administration to be out of touch with campus.</p>
<p>I can't tell whether the upper floor of admissions will be public areas or not? Do you think those will be interroga....I mean interview... rooms? Or will the top level be staff offices, with specs confined to the floor with the big room?</p>
<p>I think that the public areas will be mostly corralled to the second floor...as the very lovely staircase doesn't reach to the third floor. It's still an interesting concept, having everything together.
(and for some reason, Parrish had no game of assassins! very strange. we were specifically mentioned in the Phoenix as a place where assassins /wasn't/, in fact. It's not too late to start one, though, heh.)</p>
<p>Wow, the student lounge is sooo cool! Wow! I've got to sneak around, next time I am there. Wow again!!</p>
<p>[and for some reason, Parrish had no game of assassins!]</p>
<p>Hah. I can just see Al Bloom sliding down the hall to the President's office with his backside pressed firmly against the wall, nervously glancing from side to side for signs of ambush!</p>
<p>A combined administration/student Parrish assassins game could be a blast.</p>
<p>Well, Dean Bock actualyl game me and a fwe others a pre-tour of the upper floors of Parrish during Discovery Weekend. We visited the room where the decisions will be made, and I could feel my fate and future residing somewaht in that room. Yes, the second floor will have a visitors center from what the dean said, adn interviews will be in teh back in little offices on the second floor. The deans' offices and the President's office will be on the thrid floor, and I do believe taht access up there is restricted, but who knows, students live ont he thrid floor and I'm sure one could easily get up there.</p>
<p>Aww. Makes me wish the construction had been finished when I visited two weeks ago (and stayed with the ever-amazing narwhal).</p>