Baruch’s futuristic architecture is now on full display.

Is anyone else super excited that the scaffolding in front of the Vertical Campus is down? The building looks amazing now, and really chic. I remember I visited Baruch for a journalism conference about two years ago and the scaffolding wasn’t up yet but I could never remember what the building actually looked like. I’m glad that we get to go to school without the scaffolding now, there’s places to sit and at night, you can really see the steps light up.

I must admit, when I made the decision to go to Baruch, I was really upset because it wasn’t an actual campus. I wanted to get the full college experience and live in the dorms. I decided to go the cheaper route, go to Baruch and commute everyday. You can argue that now I won’t be in debt when I graduate but I still wasn’t convinced. Not until after the first month of school did I finally say, “Hey, I really like it here.” The VC building is amazing. It’s all high tech and very modern. Compared to other schools, Baruch is really stylish. Well, the VC building is stylish. I’m sure after the planned reconstruction of the 17 Lex. Building is done, it will look equally stylish. Plus, the college is fighting the DOT to get E. 25th Street closed. They want to make it into a pedestrian plaza like at Times Square and in front of the Flatiron Building down the street. I did a story on it in the latest edition of The Ticker for Features so check it out! 🙂

Now, we all know that it took Baruch a while to get the escalators to start working but it seems that they’ve fixed the problem. EXCEPT for the first up escalator in the VC. It’s been broken all week! That’s like the most important escalator in the building! it get’s you to the second floor where you can either take the elevators or the next set of escalators. Nobody wants to walk up all those steps as soon as they enter the building. Call me lazy but that needs to be fixed.

Another thing is that one of the elevators has not been in service since school began. If i remember correctly, there are about 5 elevators to choose from and with one not working, that only leaves 4 working elevators. And what gets on my nerves is that the elevators stop on the fifth floor! WHY? The working escalators go up to the sixth floor! Students could just take the escalators to the fifth floor. One day, I was late to history and missed the daily quiz because none of the elevators came for about 5 minutes. I had to walk up the stairs all the way to the ninth floor. I nearly died! I never want to do that ever again. And forget about the elevators in 17 Lex. Sometimes they’re crowded and sometimes their empty. Sometimes they stop at every floor sometimes they don’t.

But enough complaining. It’s only October and we’re only freshman. There’s much more to come.