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Fun fact, BYU was originally called Brigham Young Academy, and it was instituted to train teachers for public schools. And now here we are, full-blown university.
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Did you know that the staircase on the west end of campus, like the huge steep stone ones that lead from west campus down to the athletic buildings, those used to be bleachers for a stadium there, which is why now that there's stairs they're ridiculously steep and there's so many of them. Two, the stairs at the north end of the library on campus, not like the north end below ground, like the north end of the above ground section, that the stairs that go from the third to the fourth floor, they've been there since like the 70s or maybe the 60s, a long time. So like if your parents or aunts and uncles went to BYU, you guys got to share that staircase. I mean, also Professor Curl, this is 2021 right now. I don't know if Professor Curl's going to be teaching anymore when you go to BYU, but he was my economics professor when I was a freshman. He was also my dad's economics professor. So yeah, stairs in the library aren't the only multi-generational thing that have been here at BYU. Some professors have been here a long time.
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The outside of the BYU main campus, not including the old Provo High and the MTC, is almost exactly a 5K.
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The interesting fact about BYU is construction began in October of 1875, building BYU, so it's a pretty old school.
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The Crabtree has a basement. Go there.
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So in the LSB, that's where the anatomy labs are, at any given time there's probably about 10 cadavers, full body cadavers, and then more than that there's probably around 100 human cadaver specimens, I would say, that aren't full bodies anymore.
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A lot of people don't know this, but my freshman year I would run, I would do my morning jogs at like 5.30 in the morning on campus. There is like a herd of deer that lives on campus that people don't know about. You can find them just in the the weirdest places, but they bed down during the day. But if you just look around, there's like, and you go back into like the foliage and like into the spots, there's a good chance you can find some deer just on campus.
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An interesting fact is that it takes you about seven minutes to fall asleep.
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One of my professors was telling me that BYU was almost completely sold. It's like the University of Utah back in the early 1900s or whatever. So if you know the Maser building, it was the Maser building and then two other buildings, that was the entire BYU campus. And they were not making a profit at all and it was kind of declining. But the profit at the time, I can't remember which profit it was, but he had inspiration looking across the hills that this was the purpose of this location. So that did need to become a university for the Lord's children and for his elect. And so two days before the sale of the land to the University of Utah, the guy was all like, nope, that canceled it. And now BYU is still where we are today. So that was wild. BYU was almost University of Utah. And even more interesting, Brigham Young actually founded University of Utah first. So really, technically University of Utah is his school, but then we just copied it. So it was wild.
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Everyone already probably knows this now, but BYU is getting a medical school, which is really interesting and very cool, I think. I think there's a lot of students here that will... I am not a medical major, though I did take human anatomy, so I think it's cool, but I think there's a lot of students here that would really benefit and just thrive there, so I think that's really neat that we're getting that addition.