Ode (or How I Love the Williams Building)
I’m not sure the Williams building knows, in fact, I’m not sure it’s love at all, but there’s some chemistry there. She’s beautiful and big boned—warm, welcoming, wireless… I’ve only been here a year, but already I’m monogamous; O how I never set foot in another building.
There’s the endless rise of the roofless courtyard. The classrooms—equipped each with a teacher’s console including a touchscreen computer, camera projector, dvd/video/cd player and a motorized projection screen which can display the internet, sonnet 73 or any educational film. This building attests to FSU’s ranking as one of the most technologically advanced campuses in the country. And just as Williams is in its infancy (less than five years old), so are my remarks about it; I’ve only just begun, but to talk about the intimacy of the computer lab/lounge/mailroom or the good-looking TA offices, the better looking staff and professors and the spaces to spread your wings: common room, skybox, courtyard is also part of the allure—and now I’ve come full circle.
How I love the Williams Building? Easily
photos and prose by Jen McClanaghan
