Noah's Egg

I'm really excited that this post has a little bit of a story around it. Maybe, I'm just overworked from being in the midst of midterms. I like the idea of an adventure. Here we go...

Kieran, my roommate, very early in the semester, asked me, "Where is the egg?"
"What egg?" I replied. She pulled a website up on her iPhone and this is what we read...

"Noah's Egg Represents the beginnings and potential of life, and symbolizes both the field of veterinary medicine and the scholarly pursuits and ambitions of the Veterinary students and staff... Noah's Egg sits outside the UCD Veterinary Faculty's new state-of-the-art premises at Belfield."

Lots of questions followed: We're in Belfield, where's the egg? If it's so big why don't we see it? How big is this egg? Is it supposed to be right in the front of the vet building? Do you think there is another front to the building? Is it around the back? How could we miss a giant bronze egg?

This all lead up to one epic decision... We MUST find the egg.

I'd like to say we went on some big vast adventure in complete mission mode, including flashlights, juices boxes (or cans of diet coke), snacks, and a hand-drawn map of campus, to search out this egg. But, in actuality we didn't. Before we knew it we were studying daily and trying to find as much socializing time, to regain sanity, as possible. We cooked lots of desserts, tried new dinner recipes, avoided multiple near-disaster situations, and went on trips to far away lands (United Kingdom).

And while our egg-hunting ambitions flickered and dimmed our friendship flourished. Cheesy, but it felt necessary to say that.

All was forgotten, until late last week....

As we were leaving the vet building, following lecture, the sound of beeping construction equipment drew our attention to a small mound to the left of the vet school's entrance. There we saw men rolling the egg into place (for theatrical reasons, the egg was rolled... in real life they dropped that bad boy in with a crane). Questions from the surrounding crowd of peers rose. "Is Lady Gaga on campus?" "Why are they putting an egg on that hill?" etc... But Kieran and I knew the truth and we were so excited!!!

At last, we found the missing egg. Turns out if we had done a little more research early on we would have learned that in 2011 the egg was removed from campus to repair a crack. But, now it is safely returned =). If you look closely you can see sperm on the egg. 

Also, on the inside of the egg, there is a "planetarium-like effect." So cool.

And there it is. The story of the missing egg. We may or may not have jumped up and down and yelled yay when we "found" it. The end. 

Side note: Today is UCD scarf day. We rocked it. 

Now, I need to get back to studying for the second week of midterms!

<3