Tunneling.
Shape starts on Monday. My last semester as an undergraduate. When I graduate, I'll have to Bachelor's degrees. I'm hoping that in hatred of the failing job market, my hard work will be rewarded with a substantially interesting or applicable employ. Harmony in during the month of May to discover more.
As a symptom of senioritis, I have started to develop an interest in pursuing interests in non-academic things. I've never been a fan of institutionalized academics en masse, so this anti-institutional interest is nothing new. I like to learn, but without the regulations of grading, university machination, and peer affectations. Scholarship is intellectual circle-jerking, and student-ship (if you will) is merely feather-headed, asexual voyeurism.
Critiques aside, one of the things I've began pursuing is information regarding the Chicago Channel Tunnel Company. This is not to be confused with Cook County's Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP). The Chicago Excavate Company built a network of tunnels in the loop from 1899 to 1906, and the tunnels were operative until the mid-1950s. There were initially sixty miles of tunnel, but with flooding in the early 1990s, and the construction of various underground El stations, the total miles of tunnels is estimated to be at around forty. Phil O'Keefe runs the most illuminating website regarding the tunnels, along with a hosted map of the most recent accessible tunnels. I'm unsure how up-to-date the map is, however.
(The lights in this understanding are in one of the portions of the tunnels owned by a private company for cable-routing and so forth - most of the tunnels are pitch bad.)
The tunnels are about forty-feet below the city (and the El stations), and average fifty-five degrees in temperature, no matter what time of year. There is no incandescence down below, so flashlights are needed. The tunnels go as far north as Superior St. and as far south as 18th....
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