Located roughly 25 miles west of the Mississippi University for Women (featured in the previous posting below) is Mississippi State University in Starkville (sometimes also known as "Stark Vegas"). Just as she did for MUW, guest contributor Rebecca Oldham shares with us some photos of the Mississippi State campus.
Rebecca describes the Drill Field as the "most iconic place" on the Mississippi State campus. It is shown in the following photo, with Lee Hall (English department) in the background.
Rebecca also photographed an old picture of the Drill Field, hanging at Harvey's, a popular eatery.
A major edifice on any college campus, especially in the South, is the football stadium...
...with the Bulldog statue nearby at Mississippi State.
Finally, we have the water tower.
I have not been to Mississippi State personally, but based on these photos and what I've read about the university, it seems to have a lot of similarity to a school I did visit in 2008, Texas A&M. Mississippi State (which was once known as Mississippi A&M) and Texas A&M both have maroon and white as school colors and, with A&M's conference shift in 2012, both are in the SEC. Both schools have military traditions and, of course, major programs in agriculture.
