The Chamber of Secrets and You Wouldn't Understand

We went on a really unique field trip this week. The year round people lovingly refer to it as the 'Chamber of Secrets' field trip. Every semester, one of the faculty takes all of a students for a tour under the center. The center is suspended on a system of pylons, so that there is a technical space under all of the floors for easy access to all systems (heat/ac/water etc.). It looks like this:

and I was geeking out the whole time...Engineering!!! Everyone was looking at me funny because I was taking pictures of the walls and the posts, but they just didn't understand. If you are not an engineer (or an engineer in training) this looks just like a normal, boring concrete post. To me it looks like statics and dynamics and forces and concrete mixes and hours of hard work and tension and moments and pretty much pure awesome! 

We were walking in the bowels of the Jerusalem Center going further and further down.I was shrieking girlishly on the inside about all the really neat engineering, the goup walked around the corner and I saw one of the coolest things ever. This:

 There are literally thousands of names on the walls of students from the past. I saw some 20 year old names from 1993, written very faintly in chalk!

The best part was that we got to write our names in too! I was sneaky and wrote my name in 3 different places...So, if anyone ever ends up at the Jerusalem Center, find me!!

Recap of the day: I got to wear an awesome brand new orange hard hat, went down into the 'Chamber of Secrets', saw some 20 year old chalk graffiti, and got to add my name to the thousands of names that have been on the walls since the Center was built. It was a different kind of day, but it was really fun!!