Our first year of university was where it all started. It was in October 2010 that we all arrived at Warwick University, although the tower itself did not begin until mid-way through our second term.
The earliest record that I have of it comes from the 28th of April, 2011. By this time the tower was already at 7 storeys, although in actual fact this only represents 84 cans. The tower continued to grow slowly during this time, until we eventually reached what would be our peak of 9 storeys sometime in June.
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| 28/04/2011 |
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| 11/06/2011 |
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| 15/05/2011 |
This isn't quite the full story though. Not long after building the 9 storey tower, I returned to my room one evening to find it scattered all over the floor - I can only assume that it fell victim to a vaccume cleaner one morning. In fact by the end of our first year we had enough cans to build a slightly more impressive 10 storeys, but with the tower in pieces we decided to leave the construction as something to look forward to at the start of our second year.
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| Cleaner Strikes! |
At the end of a rather uneventful first year, then, we boxed and bagged up 233 beer cans, ready to recommence construction when we returned to uni the following October. Back then I remember us deciding that 15 storeys would be a respectable target for the end of university - however as I'm writing this we are nearing the end of our second year and have already constructed one better than this!
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