Day 4/99: The campus

I had a free morning today - nothing until a meeting with my Dean at 11.30 - so I had a bit of a lie-in (only got up at quarter past eight; what a rebel), then did something I've been meaning to do for a while: wander round campus and take photos for this blog.

First things first: a few views of Wilf, my hall of residence.

 

Some of the other Butler buildings (Wilf's on the right):

 

Inside - the Butler Gallery (still in progress) and Butler Lounge (replete with grand piano):

  

The courtyard, and its dedication:

Wu Hall, the main Butler building where meals, meetings etc. are:

 

Moving away from Butler, this is Whitman College, across the road from me. I can't remember who called it "faux-Gothic" and "like Disneyland", but they were right:

 

 

I decided to check out the gym at this point - I'll spare you the dull photos of timetables and weights machines, but suffice it to say that it looks awesome. There's a cardio room upstairs full of crosstrainers and exercise bikes, the Stevens Fitness Center with more cardio stuff (inc. treadmills), fixed weights and freeweights, and a swimming pool downstairs - and everything's free! I could get used to this.

Moving on, the university chapel (it's big and dark, so my flash worked imperfectly and I had to digitally enhance these):

I think the architecture speaks for itself.

Finally, the Firestone Library, which confusingly also looks like a church.

 

And a few other odds and sods from around campus:

This chap is John Witherspoon, a big figure in the independence movement (boo) and an early president at Princeton.

I don't know whether this comes from Black Books or the Geman, though I like the first option better.

Princeton invariably take the view that it's best to be calm and measured about minor, generally non-fatal health threats.

That's all from me for now - expect another post later, hopefully with a final decision about course choices.