As you walk in through the shiny glass doors of Georgia State’s recreation center for students attending Georgia State, you are instantly hit with the air conditioner blowing into your face. Having nothing to do at the moment as soon as you walk in, take a look at how humongous the recreation center actually is, which is filled with a vast pace of people walking in and out. Gray leather couches, black chairs and about five black tables fill the lobby area. The two employees, one a female about 5’5 with long hair, and a male about 5’11 with a black buzz cut, work at their brown desk throughout the day, greeting people as they come in. The glazed marble floors shine as you walk through the building and your reflection appears only when you look down. The high tech steel turnstiles can only be opened if you have a panther card.

The turnstiles open up as people slide their blue panther cards through the card scanner. Before scanning their student cards, students show proof that they are students at Georgia State University by showing their panther card. There’s an employee to the right of the turnstiles, checking students panther cards and answering the occupants questions. Her long brown hair swaying left to right, as she tells a student that he is currently on the second floor. The second floor consists of the game room and the smaller fitness room. The first floor has a larger gym where you can play racket ball in a concealed area with three walls. Students also get there heavy lifting in, with things such as bench press, squats, curls, and dumbbells. The third floor contains the well-structured basketball courts with the Georgia State logo placed firmly on the middle of the floor, and dance studios full of different races coming together as one. African Americans, Caucasians, Chinese people, and Asians are seen as you past different dance studios. The fourth floor barely gets much attention, but is surrounded by a nice size track, and a volleyball court for intramural volleyball/other sports. One guy by the name of Jordan Edwards said he comes to the recreation four times a week

As students walk through the hallway, they notice two elevators to the left and to the right, and the stairs are straight ahead. The elevator was the best thing for students to get around to the next floor. The ceilings filled with white square looking tiles. There’s a sign with the words game room labeled on it, in a funky font. As students smile with their pearly white teeth, they are filled with exciting things to play such as, ping poll, a normal size pool table, a Foosball table, etc. when you walk into the game room. Across from the game room, the first fitness center appears. A weird smelling aroma of the fitness room can be smelled as you enter into the fitness room.

The fitness room is occupied by a lot of people/students that come in different shapes, and sizes to use the nice equipment provided by Georgia State. Usually when looking around, students are using the treadmills properly and treating the equipment with care. Caught in the moment a guy of color with dark hair, and a white Nike shirt recognizes how some people wipe off their equipment with alcohol/Lysol after using that specific equipment, so he decides to wipe his treadmill off as well. People coming in this space throughout the day love to work out and stay healthy. There’s a short brown hair girl running on the treadmill. It’s very noticeable from the sweat drenching down her face that she came to the gym to put some extra work in. Throughout the day people and students go in and out of the recreation center building, either to work out in the gym, find fun activities, or even play basketball. The first gym over looks GSU’s gigantic four feet deep pool, which people look through the glass windows while working out. Georgia State recreation welcomes all types of guests, and students to their recreation center but if you don’t have a panther card, there’s a required payment of five dollars.