Blacksburg, VA

I still have a few months to go before our season opener against Alabama on Sept 5th and it still seems like a lifetime away. It's pitiful- I'm religiously checking Twitter, HokieSports, ACC page and ESPN for any news concerning our football team. I've refrained from texting some of my friends on the team- they'd probably think I was crazy.

I was very excited to see 5 of our guys make it onto ESPN's ACC Top 30 Players List :)

Jason Worilds, 4th

Darren Evans, 6th

Stephen Virgil, 16th

Kam Chancellor, 21st

Sergio Render, 25th

Go Hokies! Can't wait for a fantastic season... I see a few Blacksburg trips in my future...

Spring is here and that means the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing and it's time for football!

Yes, I said it! FOOTBALL!!!!

The Virginia Tech Orange and Maroon Spring Football game is this Saturday, April 25th at 2pm at Lane Stadium!

The game is FREE, parking is FREE and it's a great opportunity to get a preview of the upcoming football season!

There's even a spring football media guide! Here's a link to it.

Oh Lane... I would spend every Saturday of every weekend here if I could. So many great memories in this stadium... being painted up, sharing turkeylegs with my best friend, being hit in the head with airplane bottles, rushing the field... ::happy sigh::

IF you've ever heard anything about VT football, you've seen Lane Stadium. It was built in the 40s and has been drowning out audibles ever since :) We've been in the top 10 loudest stadiums in the country for I don't how long and we only seat about 65,000 people. They did a total revamp of the stadium back in 2006 adding on more offices, the tutoring center where I worked last year, shopping and most importatnly boxed seating (and let me tell you it is pretty darn spiffy up there!). Our field ain't too shabby either- we've got one of the top field drying systems in the country. I know that's not it's technical name, but you get the gist. :) I'll never forget when Dave Matthews Band and a bunch of other artists played at our school after April 16 and they babied that field like none-other. You couldn't see a speck of green it was covered so well.

Commencements have been held in there since the 50's and the tradition continues today. I'm rather excited about my May 15th one!

I run the stairs in the stadium sometimes and I love just getting to the top and looking around. It's a 360o view of the mountains and it's absolutely gorgeous. The way our stadium is situated you can hear the game all over town. When you're actually sitting inside it seems like it's covered by a dome it's so loud! Oh good ole Hokie football....

It's a Tuesday night. You're bored and it's Blacksburg. Where do you go?

TOTS of course! (Top of the Staris, but no one calls it that- dead giveaway that you're not from the area) Around here, Tuesdays are known as TOTS Tuesdays. Karaoke night is a great night to go watch people make idiots of themselves trying to remember all the steps to NSync's Bye Bye Bye or something random like that. And you can't leave without having a rail. Trust me, one is all you need.

You might be thinking -ok, TOTS is obviously a bar, that means they have crummy food right? Wrong! Their food is actually pretty darn good. My personal favorite is their pulled pork bbq. Yum!

They have both outdoor and indoor seating up on the deck and down in the patio. It's usually full when it's warm out, so get there early!

Burruss Hall is named after our 8th school president- Julian Burruss. He was the first alumni to become president and his claim to fame is convincing the board of visitors to allow white women to attend the college.

Much of the money to build this came from the New Deal. Several other buildings were finished around this time including Eggleston (now dorms and offices), Owens (built to replace the aging mess hall, now an a la carte food court) and Squires (now includes classrooms, diversity offices, SGA, Breakzone- bowling and pool, Au Bon Pain, Sbarro, two ballrooms... known as the hang out place on campus) to name a few. The main part of Burruss was finished in 1936. By the 70s both the east and west wing had been completed. there is a 3000 person aditorium on the lower level. The rest of the building is mainly offices (including the President Steger's office) and some classrooms (mainly for architecture). Anytime someone visits the college with their kids, they start off with an info session in Burruss Auditorium. I'd have to say even before Lane Stadium, this one building is what our campus is identified by. That's clearly shown by the placement of the April 16 Memorial right in front of Burruss.

I remember my first week of classes I had to go to the horrid pits of hell- otherwise known as the Math Emporium. Buses run from Burruss straight to the empo. One of the girls on my hall told me to just wait in front of Burruss and the right bus would come. I got there half an hour early just to make sure I wouldn't miss it, I was so nervous!

At different times throughout the day Burruss plays music from its tower. My roommate and I sophomore year would always make jokes about it walking across the drillfield to our 8am. I've never been able to figure out exactly what it is, but I think it has something to do with the cadets.