Welcome to St. Olaf College. Let's take a tour of some of the great places you'll find here on campus.
First up Buntrock Commons, the center of student life
at St. Olaf. Here you'll do everything from eating fantastic meals
in Stav Hall, the cafeteria, to dancing the night away in the Pause.
There's also Viking theatre which shows newly released movies on the weekends
and Fireside, which is a great place to curl up with a good book next to a crackling fire.
Buntrock also has the campus bookstore and the post office where you
might find a Friday flower from your secret admirer in your post office box,
and the Cage where you can grab a hot cup of coffee or a quick meal to go
Next up, Boe Chapel. Here we have daily Chapel as well as full Sunday service.
There are also over 21 different religious organizations on campus.
The flags in the chapel represent the more than 90 nations that our students and
faculty hail from.
Welcome to the Skoglund and Tostrud Centers. These are our primary athletics
and recreation facilities. We've got a ton of fun things to do here. We have a
field house, a weight room, a cardio room, a swimming pool, and a rock wall.
About 65% of our student body participates in athletics on campus be it varsity
sports, intercollegiate clubs, or intramurals. I've played inner tube water
polo for the past two years.
We have several buildings dedicated to academics beginning with the newly
renovated Holland Hall, originally built 90 years ago and modeled after
the Mont-Saint-Michel monastery in France. The building houses
political science sociology and anthropology history philosophy Social
Work and economics departments
welcome to Regents Hall of natural and mathematical sciences my personal
favorite Regents has four floors with great study nooks classrooms with
gorgeous views and bright spacious labs Regents has state of the art equipment
and labs where students get hands-on research experience in a variety of
disciplines like our green roof as well as technology at like our NMR machine
there are several buildings dedicated to the fine arts the first is the theater
building Kelsi theatre is a proscenium stage theater and it is right in the
heart of campus we have five main theater productions throughout the
academic year directed by theater faculty one of which
is always a musical another facility is a Center for art and dance which houses
dance studios performance spaces art galleries and art studios I'm a dancer
so I spend a lot of time here
there are lots of different places to study on campus for example the
reference room and drove off Memorial Library you can find really great spots
to study by yourself and spaces where you can collaborate with the group
there's definitely something that will suit everybody the English department is
next door and the class rooms lend themselves to discussions where you can
learn a lot from each other and your professors our student faculty ratio is
twelve to one and we were recently ranked in the top 20 for best
undergraduate teaching in the US News & World Report
and finally there is Chris Johnson Hall of Music and earnest recital hall Saint
Olaf College has a wonderful music department that offers a Bachelor of
Music and a Bachelor of Arts in music for those who want to pursue performance
music education or composition but you don't have to be a music major to
participate in any of our music ensembles including eight choirs two
orchestras and three bands as well as a variety of student-led ensembles like
acapella groups and student bands which have shows and concerts in the paws
while the library is a great place to acquire knowledge students can apply
that knowledge with the help of the Piper Center through internships and
alumni connections the Piper Center not only helps students craft cover letters
and update their resumes but help students to discern their vocation and
also connects them with alumni who helped them find opportunities to pursue
their passion after they graduated our buildings and facilities are just the
start we have over three hundred and twenty-five acres of restored wetlands
woodlands and native tallgrass prairie I would know I'm a photographer and I've
spent a lot of time out there taking pictures above the landscape and the
animals which live there that's the tour we've also got many other academic
spaces residence halls but 20 language and honor houses and several unique
study spaces to explore to see those you'll have to come to campus and visit
see you soon