Depending on who you talk to, Ohio State University (it's in Ohio!) is either the first or second largest university in the United States. Actually, it is pretty big considering that the Columbus campus:

• covers an area of 1,715 acres
• has 329 buildings
• has 48,511 students enrolled (as of Autumn 1998)

(As if you really cared!)

Anyways, aboveground OSU there are several points of interest:

• the Oval (it's not even oval!)
• the Main Library (12+ stories! Really old! Great architecture! Watch out for serial masturbators!)
• Mirror Lake (it's, like, a lake....)
• The Horseshoe Stadium (yawn....built in 1922, capacity of 89,900 screaming idiots...yawn)
• Orton Hall (home of those wonderful chimes! 12 bells in E-Flat! Built in 1893!)
• standing next to the elevators in either Morrill or Lincoln towers. You can hear the wind blow down the shaft, even when the door is closed!

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I know what you REALLY came for! Just a word of caution: This site is for informational purposes only! Going into college steam tunnels is a very dangerous and illegal activity. I suggest that you NEVER go down there. I know that I never would. But if you do, I am not responsible for you and your friends when, in an alcoholic state of mind, you decide to explore the tunnels and you trip on a pipe, spill your beer, hit your head, fall down, get burned by steam and get arrested and/or killed.

Alright now. Let's go exploring!

Updated January 23, 1999