Covenant College Five Year Plan

What the hell does "teh awesome" mean?

John, "Teh Awesome" or more appropriately "TEH AWESOME!!!!" is net jargon playing off the overly-enthusiastic usually adolescent message boarder poster etc.

It has sort of become a meme of sorts, where those of us who know better and spend way too much time online use it somewhat ironically when we discuss something cool or good that is so cool or good that it demands something like unashamed or unabashed or unironically support of and liking of that cool thing. All caps is more or less par for the course.

There's a wikipedia article on Net Jargon that mentions "Teh Awesome" here. Other uses of "Teh Awesome" that I have seen doing the similar "ironic making fun of overly enthusiastic etc." are:

"OMG TEH AWESOME!!!" with OMG standing for, as you well know, Oh My God/Gosh
"OMFG TEH AWESOME!!!" with OMFG standing for... well, you know.

Just google for "TEH AWESOME", its pretty funny.

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"Nerd alert! Nerd alert!"

FWIW, the last I heard the dorm design hadn't been finalized yet. "Look of the exterior" is supposed to be like that of Mac/Rymer, which only means that the college is shooting for some much needed architectural consistency [notice I said "consistency", not "uniformity"].

The suite style layout that was used in Mac/Rymer was indeed the rage in dorm design a few years back. Unfortunately, as you point out, the common areas in such dorms haven't seemed to have been as successful in encouraging community life as designers would have hoped (although perhaps some Mac/Rymer residents/alums would disagree).

It's my understanding that Residence Life staff and students have been involved in the dorm planning process, and that the very points that you mention have been brought up ... both by Belz/Founders folks, and by Carter folks (who will surely lament the possibility that bringing Carter up to code will mean installing doors that close automatically, thus eliminating the "our hall is one giant room with lots of nooks" feel that can currently be created via always-open doors).

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Do any of these plans include building "up" instead of "out"? I just hate to see Covenant losing a lot of their campus to new dorms, and new academic buildings (like the 1-story jackson hall).

Good point, Kyle, and the answer is yes. The campus development consultants that the college has been working with have been encouraging us along those lines (and confirming the leanings of a number of folks on campus)--to do more vertical building, taking advantage of slopes as building sites, keeping the core of the campus tighter, and also taking advantage of the views afforded by the college's one-of-a-kind location. As your comment suggests, there's a lot that can be done with structures built vertically and into hillsides, and at the same time we can preserve green space. (Unfortunately, these kinds of buildings aren't typically as inexpensive as the Jackson-style buildings.)

Aside from the astronomical costs, I think it would be cool if Covenant continued the castle look with all of their buildings. And made the tower into something useful... like a mini museum, or a gallery for on-campus art displays... And I think they should re-inforce the veranda's at the end of 2nd south, ghetto, and outside the windows of 2nd central. That way, all 3 halls have a place outside they can chill out and call their own.

I got a gander at a blueprint last summer and while there are Mac/Rhymer elements (like room suites etc), there are central lobbies like in Founders. Someone was actually listening.

I got a gander at a blueprint last summer and while there are Mac/Rhymer elements (like room suites etc), there are central lobbies like in Founders. Someone was actually listening.