I Drove Down A Street Past An Apartment Complex I Used to Live At & Then Continued Past The Dorm Area At The University, Stadium & Some Academic

Buildings on the edge of the campus. I hadn’t driven all the way down that street for many years, at least 8-10 years. I felt like Rip Van Winkle and that I had just woke up from a long sleep. I realize that so much has changed, about half or more of the apartments have been torn down and new additions to the girl’s softball stadium and the football stadium, huge new dorms replacing some of the oldest ones, and the academic buildings have been built on almost to the sidewalks where they used to have a lot of green space. Made me feel disoriented as I was driving to see so many changes all at the same time. I know things change and got the feeling what if I don’t return for 20 years how much would be different.

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4meAndyou · F

I feel that way when I return to the area where I spent 2/3 of every year growing up. My old high school has been torn down, and the old Mall is no longer there...now there's a megaplex mall with two stories!!!

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou they tore down 4-story older dorms and replaced them with huge ones, I think 5-stories tall but the buildings are very bulky. They are cramming so many more students in that area and there’s not enough parking places because they’ve also destroyed much of the parking.