Avoid getting sweaty and exhausted by the hills on campus with these shortcuts and detours
Although Athens places fourth on College Ranker’s “50 best college towns to live in forever,” it has some ups and downs — literally.
With a few hills throughout the Athens campus, many who call Ohio University a “home away from home” are thankful to have a few shortcuts to help them not become a sweaty, exhausted mess by class time.
Multiple shortcuts have been used to avoid this, such as catching a ride in the elevator of Robert Glidden Hall rather than walking up Jeff Hill or taking the longer path to go through Baker University Center to avoid Morton Hill.
For some students, they found the shortcuts later than they would have liked.
“I wish I would have known the whole thing that you don’t go up Morton Hill; you go past Clippinger (Laboratories),” said Abbey Short, a sophomore studying nursing. “Especially because I (lived) on West Green, that’s the one I would have loved to have figured out when it was 90 degrees and humid.”
Short said she was embarrassed by how long it took her to figure out the shortcut. She finally stumbled upon it in the beginning of last semester.
It might take a little longer for some students to find shortcuts, but for students such as Hannah Howard, a sophomore studying speech pathology, she said she picked up on them fairly quickly.
For people who don’t know the shortcuts, Howard said they should really try to find the one that works for them. She said, because she lived on South Green, the only two she usually used were the Glidden elevator and going past Clippinger to get to Baker Center.
Though most call these routes shortcuts, the literal definition might not always apply.
“I don’t think it really saves you any time,” Howard said. “It just saves you from going up the hills.”
Yet, some detours actually fulfill its purpose.
“I really like going through College Green,” said Emma Warner, a sophomore studying middle education. “When you (cut) diagonally through it and you’re … all of a sudden at the opposite end.”
After two years of living on campus, students have the option to live Uptown, but the use of shortcuts don’t cease after move-in day.
Emily Osmeloski, a junior studying nursing, said she lives Uptown but still uses the escalators of Baker to get her to where she needs to go.
“I think the hills are tiring, and (the shortcuts) help you avoid them,” Osmeloski said.
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