At first glance, this picture probably looks like something you get when you press the shutter by accident. But I took it on purpose, standing outside my room in Mob Quad, looking down the stairs at the door that leads out to the quad.
But it's the other door that interests me, the one in the wall over the staircase. Like, what the hell?
I never found anyone I could ask about why that door is there. The doorknob looks modern, so I am assuming that it is—somehow—used for something. The best theory I can come up with is that they have some kind of ramp they can extend from the door to the top of the stairs where I was standing and use that to move furniture or maybe trolleys of books for the library. Or just hoist them up with a rope. (Mob Quad buildings do not of course have elevators.)
(While I'm on the subject of Mob Quad, I must admit that every time I talk or write about it, the theme from the TV show The Mod Squad starts playing in my head.)
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