Welcome to the Goodnight&&Goodbye, a literate college role-play.
Darrington University sits in peaceful Newton, Massachusetts, a sleepy town of about eighty-four thousand. We’re old fashioned and New England here.
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It's autumn at Darrington University!
It's October here in Newton, Massachusetts, which means that the average highs are reaching 63°F, and the average lows every night are around 47°F. It has about the same amount of rainfall as September, averaging about 3.3" of rainfall.
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Jamie{harper} for the board descriptions.
WIKIPEDIA for the descriptions on Boston, Newton, and Greek Row.
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After you have officially read all of the handbook and understand them. You must come in here and create a new thread, to make your student and/or staff member.
Your character shall go through his/her days one at a time. And how can you remember what happened in your first term here if you are graduating? Well, write about it in your uberly awesome journal. Allow your mind, as well as others, to vacation to the good ol' days.
Show us your stuff. It can be of anything. You, your family, your pets, your house, or any kind of pictures you have taken while attending Darrington University.
Have you just befriended someone? Have a physical attraction? Hate them with the deepest passion? Or have other relationships? Make a plot to show your character's relationships with people throughout the school.
Kenna Dining Hall is were most students choose to eat at. It isn't like most Universities, it doesn't have nasty food. Instead, you have different places to decide to eat at.
Sobrato Residence are home/dormitories to the female students who attend Darrington. All students who are NOT local, MUST live in a dormitories while attending school.
Warriors Stadium is home to the Darrington Warriors. All the university sports are played here, football and baseball are the two major sports at Darrington.
These residences are the home/dormitories to the male students who attend Darrington, that live on campus. All student, who are NOT local, MUST live on campus.
Newton Free Library, the public library of Newton, Massachusetts, provides an extensive collection of print, non-print, and electronic resources, a comprehensive reference service, and a wide array of educational and cultural programs for people of all ages.
Norumbega Park was located in Auburndale on the Charles River. Opening in 1897 as a trolley park, it was a popular amusement park through the 1950s before closing in 1963. Its Totem Pole Ballroom became a well-known dancing and entertainment venue for big bands touring during the 1940s. The park is now a popular dog-walking site with hills, meadows, woods, and access to the river.
The Jackson Homestead, now the Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead, is best known for its history as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It was built in 1809 as a farmhouse designed in the Federal style, and is now a museum with paintings, costumes, photographs, manuscripts, maps and historical artifacts.
Crystal Lake is a 33 acre natural lake located in Newton Centre. Its shores, mostly lined with private homes, also host two small parks and a town beach and bath house. The name Crystal Lake was given to the pond by a nineteenth century commercial ice harvester that sold ice cut from the pond in winter. It had previously been called Baptist Pond.
Also located in Orient Heights is one of Boston's more popular public beaches. Constitution Beach — which is known to locals as "Shays Beach" — is a small beach located in the Orient Heights section of the community. It underwent renovations since the mid 1990s, in which a new public bathhouse and refreshment stand has been built. During peak season, it is not uncommon to see more than 100 residents on the sands of Constitution Beach.
New England Aquarium, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most prominent and popular public aquariums in the United States. Founded in 1969 on the city's waterfront, it is considered one of the first modern public aquariums and is credited with revolutionizing the modern aquarium experience for visitors through its emphasis on a more naturalistic setting for aquatic life.
The first Boston Opera House was built in 1909 on Huntington Ave. in Boston, Massachusetts. It was described as a "perfect jewel-box of an opera house" and despite its smallish size, was the venue for many of the local opera companies, as well as the Metropolitan Opera Tours. It was just two blocks from Boston Symphony Hall, and one block up from the New England Conservatory of Music.
The Charles River is a small, relatively short river in Massachusetts, USA, that separates Boston from Cambridge and Charlestown. It is fed by about 80 brooks and streams and several major aquifers as it flows snakelike for 80 miles, starting at Echo Lake in Hopkinton, through 22 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts before emptying into Boston Harbor.
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (AAR reporting marks AMTK and AMTZ), is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "American" and "track".
General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS, FAA LID: BOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts), is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with over 27 million passengers a year. The airport serves as a focus city for AirTran Airways, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, US Airways, and JetBlue Airways.
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that carries eight lanes of the Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 1 concurrency, plus a two lane access ramp, across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. Finished in 2003, the bridge's unique styling quickly became an icon for Boston, often featured in the backdrop of national news channels to establish location, and included on tourist souvenirs. The bridge is commonly referred to as the "Zakim Bridge" and as the "Bunker Hill Bridge" by residents of nearby Charlestown. The full name is often used as well.
Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club. The park, the oldest of all current Major League Baseball stadiums, opened in 1912. The name Fenway Park comes from the stadium being located in the Fenway district of Boston. Because of its age and constrained location in an urban neighborhood, the park has some unique features, most notably the famous Green Monster in left field.
Trinity Church in the City of Boston, located in the Back Bay of Boston, Massachusetts, is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The congregation, currently standing at approximately 3,000 households, was founded in 1733. The current rector is The Reverend Anne Bonnyman. Four services are offered each Sunday, and weekday services are offered three times a week from September through June.
Show off your talent and skills. Even if you don't think you have any, it wouldn't hurt to show off what you attempt to do! You can make requests to have filled, or you can make a shop to have people request from you.
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