Everyone remembers the landmarks.
The silhouette of Grant Hall against an autumn sky. The bustle of Richardson Stadium. Lunch at Ban Righ Hall. These are the stops on campus tours, the treasured photographs, and the content of alumni scrapbooks.
But every Queen's experience is also shaped by places that rarely made the postcards – back when postcards were still a thing – and we want you to tell us about them.
The study carrel where the afternoon sun always landed at just the right angle. The quiet corner of the JDUC where you nursed a coffee between lectures. The greenhouse that felt like another world in a Kingston winter. A rooftop with the best sunset on campus. The doorway where lifelong friendships – or perhaps something more – first began.
These are the places that become part of us, remembered not because they were famous, but because they mattered. They’re the same kinds of special spaces students are discovering now.
And many of them, and the student experiences they make possible, exist because of the generosity of alumni and friends who came before.
We're asking you to help us map that invisible campus.
Tell us about the place that still lives in your memory. Where was it? Why did it matter? What happened there?
Because somewhere on campus is a place that only you remember – and we'd love to hear its story.
Share your invisible campus memory with us, and we may include your submission in an upcoming Alumni News story.
Send your memory to alumni@queensu.ca with the subject line “Invisible Campus.”
