Monday, April 7, 2014
The English Building (New Half)
★★★☆☆
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| The English Building |
The first thing you have to watch out for in the New English Building is the doors. While clearly marked push or pull, if you aren't paying attention you may look like a fool when you try to push a door and nothing happens. Trust me. People will laugh at you. That has nothing to do with bathrooms, that was just a free piece of wisdom that you should take seriously. Now moving on to the bathrooms. There are 3 bathrooms in this half of the English Building and they are well maintained. While there are only 3 bathrooms there is another half to this building which cuts down on the amount of traffic. Traffic rating 3/5. The bathrooms are fairly new, the building is still fairly new as a whole, and they are kept quite clean. Atmosphere rating 4/5 and cleanliness rating 4/5. Don't like having space between the doors? Go to the New English Building and feel at home. Privacy rating 4/5. Not only did the bathrooms not have any graffiti they had transparent plastic barriers covering the walls to keep people from writing on the walls. Clearly the English department would rather people write papers than write graffiti. The biggest downfall of this building is the fact that there are no automatic amenities. No automatic sinks, toilets, or soap dispensers. What bathroom doesn't have automatic amenities? Even the paper towels aren't automatic. You have to actually use your hands to grab the towel, and then pull. Absurd.
The New Half of the English Building is overall a great building for bathroom use. They are quiet and clean, and not heavily trafficked. These bathrooms are an excellent place to go if you are in need of a convenient spot, or if you're in the Library (if you don't know why then go read the review for the Library here: http://gentlemensalmanac.blogspot.com/2014/03/horace-w-sturgis-library.html). Overall the New Half of the English receives a 3/5. Not your best option, but certainly a good place to go, literally and yes, pun intended.
Pro Tip - The best bathroom in this building is far and away on the 3rd floor. I didn't even know their was a 3rd floor and that was reason enough for me to believe that this was the best place to go. It has the least traffic and was the cleanest in the building. Go here for the best experience in this building.
- Plunkett
Monday, March 3, 2014
Horace W. Sturgis Library
The Sturgis Library is one of the most iconic buildings in Kennesaw, as the first large major building, it is where KSU has begun its expansion into a incredible campus. A building that boasts a truly great rare book collection it is truly an icon for all of Cobb county.
But the years have not been kind to KSU's library, and strictly speaking its bathrooms.
the Library scored embarrassingly low except for two areas and maybe it will make sense once I have presented the ratings.
Although the library itself is a high traffic area the bathrooms rate 4 of 5 which is little to no traffic and an impressive number, the privacy rating is similar at 3 of 5, but the privacy rating is only this high for one reason. Floor two of the Library has a stall that was built for a King, it's not just big it is massive, I'm fairly certain you could fit two toilettes in this stall without a divider and the sheer distance would be privacy enough. This is where we find the Library's asterisk, the bathrooms in the Library are neither clean and the atmosphere is very poor, the bathrooms are so old they even seem dirty (1 of 5 and 1 of 5). so while it ranks well in privacy and traffic that is because these bathrooms should be avoided and everyone already knows it. Did I mention that the bathrooms even smell, not that "someone was just in there" smell, but the "oh these pipes are wrong and all the bathrooms smell, like every floor."
The Horace W. Sturgis Library ranks 1 of 5 stars.
Pro tip: stay away, beware, no trespassing... you get it. find somewhere else to do your business.
-Nels
But the years have not been kind to KSU's library, and strictly speaking its bathrooms.
the Library scored embarrassingly low except for two areas and maybe it will make sense once I have presented the ratings.
Although the library itself is a high traffic area the bathrooms rate 4 of 5 which is little to no traffic and an impressive number, the privacy rating is similar at 3 of 5, but the privacy rating is only this high for one reason. Floor two of the Library has a stall that was built for a King, it's not just big it is massive, I'm fairly certain you could fit two toilettes in this stall without a divider and the sheer distance would be privacy enough. This is where we find the Library's asterisk, the bathrooms in the Library are neither clean and the atmosphere is very poor, the bathrooms are so old they even seem dirty (1 of 5 and 1 of 5). so while it ranks well in privacy and traffic that is because these bathrooms should be avoided and everyone already knows it. Did I mention that the bathrooms even smell, not that "someone was just in there" smell, but the "oh these pipes are wrong and all the bathrooms smell, like every floor."
The Horace W. Sturgis Library ranks 1 of 5 stars.
Pro tip: stay away, beware, no trespassing... you get it. find somewhere else to do your business.
-Nels
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