Some of my friends have really cool, arty final projects. I don't (probably because I don't have an art class), but I wanted to do something fun anyway. Here's the idea: as part of its prettification process, the college got a bunch of new shiny trash cans. They have really big sideways openings, which always remind me of mouths. Clearly, there was something missing. These are the two trash cans in front of Commons, upon completion of the canthropological study:
This is the seating area just in front of Commons. It's where that chair under the tree came from.
This is a photo of the crowd that gathered for Wednesday's Project Runway finale, taken from my seat on the windowsill. The recent double billing of Lost and PR has been a total madhouse now that there is only one TV available on the entire Bennington College campus. What you can't see here is all the people sitting to my left, or on the floor, or near the snackbar off the right corner.
Literally, the chairs. The seating around here is pretty random: all the houses have different furniture, mostly in single pieces instead of sets. The classrooms in the Barn mostly have weird plastic chair-desks (which they use because they were a gift), except for the ones that don't. The other classroom spaces are even more random. The student center will supposedly have locally-made wooden benches (but no TV... that's a rant for another day, I'm afraid). Here are some of the chairs I haven't mentioned.
There are green Adirondack chairs all over Commons Lawn. Here are three at the rock wall known as the End of the World.
This chair is sitting under a tree by Commons. It goes on the porch/patio with its brethren, but I like it better under this tree.
These chairs are shiny aluminum! Not the most comfortable things in the world, but they're amazingly light and I like them a lot. There are also armchairs and sofas in this room.