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A Tribute to the West Wing
Believe it or not, some people will actually miss you.
Dear West Wing,
Your reputation among the Providence Day community is controversial to say the least. Deemed the “temporary cardboard trailer,” your presence on campus has turned into somewhat of a communal inside joke. Students say as they walk through your rickety old hallway, “remember when they were supposed to get rid of the West Wing like 20 years ago?” Now, as we move closer to your death and toward the birth of the infamous “New Building,” we look back on all of the memories you have blessed us with.
Thank you for never being the right temperature, no matter the weather outside.
When it is 80 degrees outside and you somehow manage to feel 100, you always make us feel slightly uncomfortable.
Thank you for teaching us the entire history of the world in just 280 feet.
My life is complete now that I know that Belly Dancing was invented in 1,000 B.C.E.
Thank you for always blessing us with the smell of an old lunch box.
Because we all really wanted to know exactly what the history department was eating for lunch.
Thank you for having traffic jams worse than Providence Road during rush hour.
Somehow it takes seven minutes just to get through the front doors.
Thank you for giving us nightmares about what could possibly lie beneath your floors.
For all we know, there could be human skeletons under there.
“Thank you for being my home away from home. Wait, let me think about this… I’m actually here more hours in a day than I am at home. And yes I do sleep here sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean every night.”
By Nell Warnock
While many students look forward to your destruction, there’s still hope that you might actually be around for another twenty years. Who knows? That’s what happened last time.
-Upper School Students
-Dr. Bratyanski
Dr. Bratyanski, faculty member. Photo by: Nell Warnock.
The Charger, April '16
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