Blog #3

Ok so today wasn’t as good as yesterday, actually it wasn’t good at all. I was planning on having my meeting with Sara, the student facility manager but she didn’t work today. The time we had planned for our meeting I’m guessing is for tomorrow. I talked to Doug, who is a staff member that was working the front desk. He told me she worked tomorrow at the time we are supposed to meet. I am guessing we got our days mixed up. It wasn’t a worthless day though. I asked Doug what he could tell me about the Aquatic center. He told me that it is open on Monday through Thursday from 6:00am to 10:30pm. On Fridays it is open from 6:00am to 8:30pm, on Saturday’s from 10:00am to 6:00pm, and finally on Sundays from 12:00pm to 6:00pm. After hearing all of this I realized I did not even find the swimming pool yesterday. I couldn’t find it! So I asked Doug, “How do you get to the pool?” He told me you have to cut through the men’s locker room on the ground level (women obviously cut through the women’s side) and you’re right there. In conclusion, today wasn’t a total failure. I found out a few bits of information before he had to help to other people. Hopefully tomorrow, when I have the meeting, I will hope to find out much more information about the RSC.

Blog #2

Today was great! I had a good day for my investigation on the RSC. I first went in today to just take a look around and see if I could set up an interview to gain some inside information. I have scheduled a meeting with Sara, who is a student facility manager. That wasn’t too hard and did not take a lot of time. I still had an hour and fifteen minutes until my next class, so I decided to do some exploring. I was at the RSC welcome center on level one of five different levels. I then made my way to the lower level (the basement) and worked my way up. The lower level consisted of the fitness Center, racquetball courts, and the functional fitness. The next level I came upon was the ground level. This level has both a men’s and women’s locker room. It contains an equipment center, but I have yet to find out if it costs anything to rent. Next was the west and east gyms, which have six total courts for basketball. There is a room for boxing as well. That’s all I saw on this level and I went back level one where I found two other gyms. One was for indoor soccer and the other was open. It didn’t have any baskets or anything! I will be sure to ask Sara what that is all about. Then there were six more rooms on this level, and I want to see what these are used for as well. The last level is level two and three combined. It is called the main gym and has four courts: two that are used for volleyball, one court full of badminton nets, and the last court was open, I believe for basketball. Now for the third level, which is in the main gym except if you go up a set of stairs there is a running, walking track. This in total took me about forty minutes to walk all the way through and look around. As you can tell, there is a lot to offer at the RSC. I cannot wait to find out more in my meeting tomorrow with Sara. Oh, and before I go I also found out the Spring RSC hours from January 11th – May 7th, 2009. They are: Monday through Friday from 5:30am to 1:00am, Saturday from 8:00am to 1:00am, and finally Sunday from 11:00am to 1:00am. It is open pretty much all the time. Thanks, and be sure to check and see what all I find out in the meeting.

Blog #1

Hello there, I am Austin, a student at Purdue University. For the next week, I’ll be blogging on this website about everything I can learn about the Purdue RSC. You may be asking yourself now what is the RSC? This is exactly want I want you to think. Many of you may think you may know all about the RSC. Well, what I am going to do with this blog is hopefully prove you wrong. In doing so, I will provide you with lots information that could help. First, the RSC stands for recreational sports center, which many people call the “co-rec.” I am going to look into this and find out as much as I can about what it has to offer to you as students and faculty. I will be looking into the cost for a membership, as well as certain fees. I am planning on finding out my information by setting up some interviews with staff members at the RSC, and talking to my peers and seeing what they enjoy at the “co-rec.” I will be updating everyday on what I have learned and informing you with everything I can about the recreational sports center.