Ely Campus Center

So, Ely Campus Center is my favorite building. There is so much going on in the Campus Center, it's amazing. On the first level of Ely is our campus bookstore. Here you can buy or rent your textbooks, buy clothing, magazines, and just about anything else you can think of.

On one side of the bookstore is our library. One the first floor of the library are brand new computers and printers with study rooms that can be reserved, and reference desks. On the second floor of the library are more private study rooms and another computer lab. Our school has over 125 databases and 17,000 full text journals. The cool thing about the library is that there are an additional five floors that are called the "Stacks". The stacks are filled with rows and rows of books. Imagine a book, and the stack probably has it, which is awesome. The rare occasion our library doesn't have it, we can order it from surrounding libraries as well.

On the other side of the bookstore is a lounge, Subway, and the Wellness Center. The Wellness Center is one of two gyms that our campus has. There are two floors to the Wellness Center: first floor is an aerobics room, some weights, bikes, ellipticals, and treadmills. In the aerobics room, there are classes that you can sign up for weekly. They offer Pilates, zumba, kickboxing, and so many other ones!

Going up the stairs to the second floor is the Theater Arts department. There's the Black Box theater where some smaller shows are put on.

On the third floor, my home, is the Communications department. The third floor contains classrooms, two all Mac labs, the TV and radio stations, and the Campus Voice newspaper. I love our communications department and since I spend most of my time there, you can see why I love Ely so much!

Last stop in Ely is the basement level. Walking down the stairs from the main lobby, to your right is the pool and to your left is a long hallway. Right in front is the Campus Window where you buy tickets for bus trips that our school goes on. I just recently bought a bus ticket to NYC for the day with my friends for $6.50. Yes, six dollars and fifty cents!!

Going down the hallway, we are passing by our school's Student Government Association's offices. Student Government Association (or SGA) is in charge of student activities, clubs, hall council, class council, etc. Our Campus Activities Board's offices are also in this hallway. CAB, as we call it, puts on events at school like bus trips, bingo, dances, and pretty much any other event on campus. Go a little further on down the hall and we reach the Owl's Nest which is where a lot of the events go on that CAB puts on. We also have movie nights down here, too, which are always fun! Reaching the end of the hallway is my personal favorite part of Ely! Drum roll...Dunkin Donuts! Yes, we have a full-service Dunkin Donuts!

- Amanda