{"id":11517,"date":"2022-09-16T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:11:56","slug":"favorite-campus-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/favorite-campus-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"We Heart the Hill: A Celebration of Beloved Campus Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From study nooks to Beebe’s shores, alumni recall their go-to places to cram, chill, explore, and recharge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Margaret McFadden Carney \u201980, BArch \u201981, was an undergrad, she had a favorite spot on campus: a comfy seat with a superlative view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe black chair in the A.D. White Reading Room was in the center of the large bay window, looking west over Libe Slope and the West Campus Gothics,\u201d she recalls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNearly every Sunday for over five years, I would get to the library before noon to stake out that spot for the day, reading everything I had to read for my classes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carney returned to her alma mater in 2018 as University Architect<\/a>, and today is familiar with pretty much every campus building. But that location\u2014at the center of the distinctive space within Uris Library that boasts ornate iron scrollwork, spiral stairways, crosswalks, and balconies\u2014remains her favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe chairs are different now,\u201d she notes. \u201cBut the view and the sense of quiet and peacefulness are still there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that the Ithaca campus is vast and bucolic\u2014with myriad green spaces, buildings in a variety of architectural styles, and many nooks and crannies betwixt and between\u2014any list of \u201cfavorite spots\u201d will be long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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