Submitted by third-year Michael Carwile

I'm going to be direct and to the point - go to the Garfield Park Conservatory.

That means you, you student at the University of Chicago, you owe it
to yourself to get out there. It's simple, get on the Green Line, get
off at the stop called Conservatory. You'll see the thing from the
platform, you can't miss a 184-acre greenhouse. For all you folks
living in B-J and the new dorm, the 63rd and Cottage Grove stop is
half a mile a way. That's just half a mile you have to walk to get to
a land that's a perpetual seventy degrees. When the wind is freezing
your face off in February, the Garfield Park Conservatory is seventy
degrees and full of palm trees. When you're stuck in the slush and mud
in March, the Garfield Park Conservatory is seventy degrees and full
of palm trees. When it's April and still nothing is green outside, the
Garfield Park Conservatory is seventy degrees and full of palm trees.

Just so you know, the northern end of the natural range of the palm
tree is the South of France. And unless you're studying abroad in
Paris, you won't be going to the South of France any time soon. So get
yourselves out to the Garfield Park Conservatory!