8 posts tagged “dorm”

My spring break was last week, and I (finally!) had the opportunity to make a trip back to Bennington.  I took LOTS of photos, including some from the train ride each way. (Tragically, I did not manage to get any images of the BISON FARM we passed by somewhere in rural New York.)
I'm going to start by posting some photos of the "New Houses," the three architecturally-acclaimed buildings that make up the upper half of third street.  Most of my friends now live in these houses, so I spent a lot of time in them while I was visiting... except for the third, Paris-Borden, which is one of the two on-campus residences I've never even entered.  That's out of eighteen, people.

This is First Street, also known as "The Street On Which I Have Not Lived."  It looks a lot like Second Street, which was actually constructed first.

Show us your pets.
Submitted by Prakash Daniel.

Gladly!  Here's Ruffles again... from a different angle this time.

Chewing on the bars is her favored method of begging.

Of course, I'm not allowed pets here at Bennington.  This is about the closest I've got:

I'm so proud that it's doing well!  There's another stalk on the other side, but it's a week or two behind this one in terms of actually flowering.

A while back (while there was no internet in my house) there was a Vox Hunt asking about refrigerator contents.  Well, I took a picture:

Here we see cran-raspberry juice, two varieties of chocolate, yogurts, applesauce, lemonade, root beer, cheese, and soy milk -- pretty much a typical assortment for me.

There are three residential streets on campus.  First and Second are home to the 12 colonial houses, an example of which can be seen here.  These houses are beautiful and old, dating back to the founding of the college (the Second Street houses, counterintuitively, were built first).  I live on Third Street, home to three very new dorms, and three "milk crate" houses built in the 1970's.  I live in one of the latter (picture from about a month ago):

This is the back of Bingham, the house I where lived last year... you can actually see the window to my old room at the top of this photo, toward the left.  Bingham is the only house with a porch swing (because it's the only house with a real porch).  It was a great place to live (though I love my new dorm too).

Just in case you were wondering who sits in all those chairs.

Here are a couple of random photos of the inside of my amazing dorm room: