Kemper Hall (BMWTD #10)

Today I decided to go to Kemper Hall. Kemper Hall, formerly known as Engineering II, holds many of the engineering classrooms and labs, namely, for computer science.

Kemper Hall was, apparently, named after John D. Kemper, who was the second dean of the College of Engineering.

The building is actually very nicely designed. I mean, look at those windows.

This building is actually open to students, so I was actually able to go inside so I can give you a tour.

First of all, they had a plane. It was just hanging out there, but it was a plane.

There seemed to be a nice colorful pattern on the ground. The whole building seemed to have a nice color pattern.

Seriously. Even the room numbers had a color scheme.

Okay... that last sign was just confusing, but there still was a nice color scheme.

Even the bathroom sign had the same color scheme.

So, I had to check to see if the inside of the bathroom was just as colorful. It wasn't. It was actually quite dirty.

Since I was already in the bathroom, I decided I'd take my picture in there, and now, with the camera in the way, you can't tell if I'm smiling or not. 

Anyway... I went back downstairs and saw a little computer museum. It was pretty cool.

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Food Science and Technology (BMWTD #9)

Today, I went to the Food Science and Technology Building. This holds the brewery, the food processing plant, the milk processing plant, and the research winery for UC Davis.

The Food Science and Technology Building has a nice big field right in front of it and the sign, for once, is parallel with the building.

The building was closed, but when I looked through, the lobby was very suspicious.

Seriously, look at this. hallway. That is sketchier than any hallway ever.

They also had this extra, unlisted building right next door. It had these locked, metal doors. They were very sketchy.

Each room had these creepy-looking control panels attached. This still didn't clarify what the rooms were.

I also found a small rose garden next to the building. It wasn't the best-looking garden in the world.

There was a random straw hat on the ground.

I know that I'm not the best when it comes to rolling hoses, but this hose even makes me want to cringe. It looks terrible.

Here's a picture of me, mid-blink, in front of the building.

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The House - TB 16 (BMWTD #8)

Today I went to TB 16. There are a lot of these 'TB' buildings, so I went and looked up what it meant. Apparently, TB means 'Temporary Building, but from the looks of it, TB 16 is not that temporary.

TB 16 is also known as 'The House'. I don't know why they went with such a generic name, but maybe they wanted the place to feel like home.

The House is the home of a confidential student-run peer counseling center that offers free services to UC Davis students.

I came to the building from a back road, so I got to see everything that was behind the building...

...including a chicken pen. Apparently next door to the house, a group of students are trying to promote sustainability and are raising chickens. I'll probably learn more about the chickens when I visit a different building.

The House provides a drop-in center where you can just 'drop in' and get help.

Unfortunately, the drop in center was under construction, so I don't know how students are currently dropping in.

Anyway, I took a picture, but I have a kind of derp face on. I was probably in a rush.

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Nova Hall - Reagan (BMWTD #7)

Today I went to Nova Hall, which is one of the seven residence halls in the Reagan Hall complex. 

Reagan Hall is part of the Segundo Residence Area, but it thinks its so cool that it gets in own complex of buildings. All the buildings that you can see in the above picture are from Reagan. 

It didn't take me that long to get to Nova Hall because I also live in Segundo, and this Nova is just down the road from my own building.

Nova is pretty nice and has this little bike rack area in front of it. Its also cool that I'm actually able to walk all the way around the building.

I wasn't able to get in because only residents of Nova Hall have keys to get into the building, but I was able to take a picture of their staircase through a window.

In the early afternoon, when I went to see Nova, there aren't that many people walking around, so I was able to smile for the camera.

On my trip, I also saw this one orange cone telling everybody not to walk on the pile of dirt because, you know, you would ruin the pile of dirt if you walked on it.

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Surge II (BMWTD #6)

Today I actually went to a building that was open to the public: Surge II. There are other Surge buildings, including Surge III and Surge IV, but I can't figure out why they are called Surge.

Surge II is located near the center of campus and is the home of the Academic Technology Services, which provides creative and technical support services to campus.

I'm not going to lie, the first time I went to visit Surge II, I forgot my memory card for my camera, so I had to go back across campus to my dorm, get the card, then come back to Surge II.

The Surge is nice, though, because unlike some of the other buildings, I could go all the way around it without hopping any fences or going into off-limits areas. I took a picture of the back of the building just to show you that I was actually able to go there.

As I stated earlier, Surge II is open to the public and I was able to take a look inside. You can always tell a friendly place when they have smiling pumpkins everywhere and a sign that says 'ASYLUM' hanging on the wall.

And, as always, I took a picture of me and the building. I am displaying what I like to call my 'Flat Smile', but don't judge. You're lucky I even smiled at all. This building had bikers all around it, all of them ready to give me a funny look at a moment's notice.

I also saw the most interesting golf cart ever. It had doors, a trailer, and it was completely electric. You can even see the extension chord that's recharging it in the picture above.

I also saw the UPS Truck. I have an issue with this UPS truck because when I went to see the Environmental Services Faculty Headquarters, this truck honked at me for being in a parking lot. I wasn't even biking slowly or anything. I just want the world to know how terrible this UPS truck is, even if it does run on natural gas.

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The Rifle Range (BMWTD #5)

So, today I went to the Rifle Range. It used to be an actually rifle range and armory for the ROTC, but now it is part of the business office for facilities management.

See, I randomized the list of building I am going to visit so I get a new and different one each day, but it seems like all the buildings I'm visiting are off limits. This building was down a street that said "Wrong Way" and then is almost entirely surrounded by a metal fence.

The front looks all nice and inviting, but it was surrounded by fences on this side too. (You can barely see the building on this side, but its down the the street and on the left.

To get a closer look at the building, I went around back, where I went up this sketchy dirt road to get the the building.

I got close enough to see the building, but it looked even sketchier than the road.

I mean the building had holes in it and everything. I started to question whether they really had an office in there at all.

But I took my picture with the building all the same. I had to take the picture at a distance because some guys were looking at me funny, but I still wanted to smile in the picture.

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