Our school is pretty blessed to have such gorgeous buildings. With the campus known for such a great overall feel and great looks, it’s hard to not fall in love with the buildings you go into and pass every day. They’re known for all being brick and matching, but what they hold inside of them is pretty different. What does the building you spend most of your time in say about you?
Modlin/Booker
This one’s a given, but you’re freaking talented. 'Nuff said. If you’re constantly spending all your time in these buildings, you have a talent for something that most of us will only ever dream of having. Your time here is spent singing, dancing, painting, or something else incredibly cool that most likely doesn’t involve books.
Puryear/Maryland
You’re a little bit quirky to say the least. I guess I only really say that because I constantly forget that they’re there, forgetting the fact that most of us walk past them every day. That section of campus has an especially underrated beauty to it. Compared to the typical Jepson Insta pic or the oh-so-typical lake Insta pic, the Puryear/Maryland Insta pic opportunity is rarely taken, but it’s a token of beauty on Richmond’s campus. You go you, for being the beautiful, quirky, fun side of Richmond.
Weinstein
Weinstein is a pretty diverse building and has a lot of special features. It’s for the people that have a little bit of an actual grasp on what they want to do with their lives. These people are gonna make it somewhere even if we don’t really know where. They’ve got their buddies, Ryland and Jepson, to bring together a great liberal arts team. They know that their expert knowledge in their topic in Weinstein will help them succeed, but they’re smart enough to explore the other areas, too.
Gottwald
Honestly, before I say anything else, I applaud you. Gottwald is the place where all the science majors find common ground in struggling through all these classes and labs that I will never find interesting, but we need you people. We all need you to be our future doctors and vets and surgeons and everything else we just couldn’t simply do while at school. These people are probably some of the most stressed out, but intelligent people on campus. Between 4,289,329 labs and classes, Gottwald holds a special kind of student.
Jepson
yes... this is a photo I shamelessly Instagrammed...
Ahh, Jepson. Jepson’s the building everyone takes a photo of when they visit campus because it stands so tall and has such a visual presence. It’s what the school displays widely on their admissions pamphlets. Jepson stands tall and proud and a little bit confident about what it has to offer. Which is right because it holds the leaders of Richmond. With it being the first leadership school in the country, Jepson has the right to be a little bit cocky, and so do its students. Leadership is all about confidence, and I commend those who take on such a cool major or minor. Go change the world, folks.
Robins... School of Business
Considering half the buildings are named Robins, I guess it’s just easier to go by its nickname of just the “b school.” I say this as a bschool student, but bschool kids are just cool. And I will never be cool enough for that standard. Do I switch my major? Who knows? I just know that the people that hang out there are always doing something cool or smart, and as much as I love being there and as much as I love taking classes there, it’s pretty intimidating to have that surrounding you, but it’s also a reason why our business school is among the top in the country: It’s challenging and full of great professors, and thus, great students. The bschool, with its distance away from most other things, has a certain appeal to it, being so secluded. You could spend all day in there without leaving (uh, Lou’s, duh) and come out feeling like a new person. It’s just a different world over there.
Ryland
Ryland, I love ya, but I don’t really get ya sometimes. Ryland is probably the second place spot in artsiness compared to Modlin. It’s full of the English and history students that use their knowledge for creativity, and that holds a little bit of mystery. Especially thinking about the third floor of Ryland and its mysterious, Hogwarts-esque feel, it’s simple to understand how the students that emerge from its doors are also artistic and skilled in a completely different sense.
Carole Weinst -- oh, the International Center
Does anyone ever call it by its full name? Most of us know the International Center by its proximity to Passport Cafe, though we’ve never taken a class in the building. Again, it’s another underrated beauty on campus, but that’s probably because I’m banking on the International Studies majors to help save the world. While it’s frequented by some for a language requirement, those who are studying international relations and such have a different feel for the world (disclaimer: that’s figurative language; to my understanding, those majors aren’t actually feeling the globe in the middle of the building). Honestly, we’re all counting on you.
All the other ones (i.e. the ones that are held in the first floor of dorms)... ummm, what are you doing? Who knows about you? That’s a dorm?
Now granted we’ll all probably spend a little bit of time in some of these buildings and have a bit of a mix of all of them, but isn’t that just what makes Richmond so great?
