Science & Outdoors
The science labyrinth: the bane of UW-SP students
The Pointer
skrez305@uwsp.edu
There are so many twists and turns, David Bowie couldn’t even sing his way out of this one.
In the hallways of the Science building on the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point’s campus one could easily get lost. The building is a labyrinth on campus, confusing many students that enter through its doors.
Looking at a map of the Science building, one may think that it’s as simple as any other building. To some that have entered those doors hundreds of times, it’s just like finding your way through your home. For others, the maps don’t necessarily help them find their way around at all.
Casi Burrows, a junior non-science major, has had to find multiple classrooms and offices in the Science building.
“Every time I find out on my schedule that I have a class in the Science building I will try and get in the day beforehand and figure out where my classroom is. Either that or I’ll end up having to leave for class a half hour early just to find my room,” said Burrows.
Burrows went through this process as a freshman and continues to still do it as a junior.
Marian Maerzke, a senior biology major, transferred here the spring semester of her sophomore year. When going to search for her first classroom in the Science building, she was very confused.
Maerzke said, “Those first few weeks were very stressful, the room was tucked back in some hidden corner behind the planetarium, and I never would have guessed there’d be rooms back there at all, let alone that it was considered the ‘A’ section! Also the fact that there were so many stairwells, and that not all of them allow you to get to the floor or area you need to go was frustrating.”
The ‘A’ Section is yet another way the science building is different from all the rest on campus. It has four different sections, one section for each corner of the building. Some people feel this helps them find their way around and some just find it more confusing.
On the flip side of things, there are those that are in the Science building every day of the week and have figured it out. Melissa Wanasek, a freshman paper science major, is one of these people.
“At first it was really confusing, but after a while I got used to where everything was in the building,” Wanasek said. “I feel really comfortable in the building.”
Maerzke has also gotten more used to the building with time. She said, “Today, I still don’t understand where all the stairs go, or get turned around and end up in a place I don’t mean to be in.”
Burrows said, “Whenever I have a class in the Science building it makes me feel like a freshman again because I don’t know my way around.”
