What with the construction on campus, things aren't quite business as usual this academic year. Although there's been a disappointing dearth of dramatic skateboard/freeline/unicycle crashes thus far (you have reality TV; I have my office window), the students have found an upside to the construction: an administratively sanctioned chance for creativity. Here are some recent photos:
The construction area for the new building stretches right up to Kingston Hall, even though the finished product will be located a decorous distance away.
While the sunny, grassy area outside Kingston is temporarily gone, never fear -- there is still plenty of green for sports and lounging down at the residential end of campus.
However, since all campus foot traffic is directed through this narrow passageway, there's one small problem . . .
Problem (mostly) solved. There are a few renegades (ahem, Johnson), but in general pedestrians are safe from marauding bicycles.
Nobody was initially fond of the endless expanse of white construction wall, but the students made a purse out of a sow's ear (or a shelf out of a Pooh posterior, if you recall your A. A. Milne).
Dorm pride, math jokes, Harry Potter references, and COLOR. It's festive!
Gratuitous photo of trees and sunlight. This path is the first thing I see when I arrive at work each morning -- stately, no?
The students also commemorated Orientation 2011 on the construction wall . . .
. . . including a portrait of Superhero Liana (seen below, in the middle between Elly and Julius). It's not a bad likeness, actually.
So that's a snapshot of life here on campus at this particular moment -- minus, of course, the coffee (the coffee cart is back, huzzah!), the classes, and the general hubbub of seven hundred and fifty students going about their daily business. It's lovely to have them here again.
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